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Egypt’s State Council Administrative Court challenged to rule on the government’s decision to hand over the two Red Sea Islands to Saudi Arabia under the April controversial agreement Tuesday set up June 21 for its verdict, reports say. President Al Read more
Morocco has set up a new Foundation for African Ulema (Islamic scholars) an institution destined to unify stands and strategies of African clerics against religious extremists. The North African Kingdom, a beacon of moderate Islam, is leading the war against Read more
“We have seen this all a couple of years ago and know the Security Council decision was used in the exact opposite way than was stated in the document,” Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Gennady Gatilov, told the Russian news agency Read more
King Hamad of Bahrain has promulgated the bill amending the 2005 Political Societies Law after the parliament approved it last month. The new law separates religion from politics as the state media, Bahrain News Agency, stressed that “under no circumstances Read more
Syria’s economy and foreign trade minister Humam al-Jazaeri has lamented about the “surprising” and “regrettable” Lebanese decision to stop the importation of the country’s produce but Beirut claims that the move is in the interest of local Lebanese farms. The Read more
Two Palestinians, allegedly cousins, went on a shooting spree in Tel Aviv killing at least four people and injuring around 16 people on Wednesday night at the Sarona shopping center. Israel has reacted to the attack by freezing the 83,000 Read more
The city of Marrakech will enjoy global attention in November as the city soon as after the UN summit on Climate Change (COP22) has been chosen by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to host its annual African meeting on good governance, Read more
President Bashar al-Assad addressed the Syrian parliament on Tuesday vowing that the war against terrorism will be carried on until it is uprooted and that they will liberate every inch” of the country like they have done in Palmrya. He Read more
A bomb attack targeted early Tuesday a police vehicle in the Vezneciler neighborhood of Istanbul killing seven police officers and four civilians and injuring 36 others. “We will continue our fight against terror until the end without getting tired” because Read more
French President Francois Hollande has urged Saad Hariri, leader of the Mustaqbal Movement, to support the candidacy of MP Michel Aoun of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) for the presidency instead of Marada chief MP Suleiman Franjieh, currently backed by Read more