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Claims that Egyptian parliament will vote on a resolution condemning the Armenian genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 have resurfaced again and the head of the Armenian National Committee of Egypt said a draft could be presented in Read more
The UN Security Council unanimously voted on extending investigations aimed at identifying the perpetrators of the chemical attacks in Syria last year and requested that a report be completed within 90 days by the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) of the Read more
The first public hearings of the serious and systematic human rights violations that took place in Tunisia between 1 July 1955, when Tunisia became independent, and 31 December 2013, when the country’s new Transitional Justice Law came into force have Read more
No rest for King Mohammed VI, The Moroccan monarch will commence his visit to Ethiopia on Friday after postponing the trip few days before the beginning of the ongoing UN summit on the climate change (COP22). King Mohamed in October Read more
King Mohammed VI has called on African countries to adopt a common approach against climate change and work out actionable measures for sustainable development. In his speech made at the opening of “Africa Action Summit”, convened in Marrakesh on the Read more
Iran has responded to claims made by eleven Middle Eastern and North African States, about Tehran’s interference in their domestic affairs in a bid to destabilize them, in a message delivered by its Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN Read more
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that “further subsidy reform is critical” in Kuwait because the country’s “fiscal and external accounts have deteriorated markedly.” The implementation of austerity reforms by the government generated displeasure and the demand for more Read more
The Tal Afar was taken from the fighters of the Islamic State on late Wednesday and Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi stated that the “72nd and 92nd brigades will enter the city” while the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), a pro-Baghdad Shia Read more
Moroccan intelligence services have received information from their American counterparts of a movement of some Islamic State group (IS) militants disguised as merchants fleeing Libya in direction to the North African country, reports say. The report stems from the Arabic Read more
Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has seen his death penalty for alleged facilitation of a mass jail break in July 2011 overturned as country’s court of cassation demands retail. Morsi was deposed in July 2013 by then army general Abdel Read more