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Official reports from the Arab League have confirmed that the Egyptian government has nominated Ahmed Aboul Gheit in replacement for the League’s outgoing Secretary General Nabil Al Arabi who stated recently that he has no intention to seek a second Read more
Egyptian government Sunday charged outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and Gaza’s Hamas of the assassination of Public Chief Prosecutor Hisham Barakat last year in June. “This plot was carried out on the orders of the Muslim Brotherhood … in close coordination with Read more
While Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas seeks to mobilize international support for the French proposal to hold an international peace conference to solve the Palestine-Israel conflict, Hamas claims that peace talks with Israel have “failed” and deems the French initiative an Read more
Documents released by the US and said to be from the dossiers seized from Osama Bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan during a raid in 2011 which led to his death showed that Al-Qaeda’s branch known as the n the Islamic Read more
UN Secretary General’s Special Representative and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Martin Kobler, told the Security Council that the humanitarian situation has “deteriorated further” and the political stalemate is enabling terrorists and criminals to have “deep Read more
Despite Egypt’s efforts to expand the Suez Canal to reduce the transit period at the canal and increase revenues, the tunnel is seemingly snubbed by freighters as vessels are increasingly bypassing the Suez Canal for the traditional round the Africa Read more
Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail informed the parliament that the country’s debt has soared to around $293 billion (EGP 2.3 trillion) almost a year after the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics stated in a March 2015 report that Read more
Libya’s adjacent neighboring country lying over the northern side of the Mediterranean Sea is willingly to take a primary role in the activities of foreign troops that would fight the Islamic State in the war torn country according to US Read more
A team of 20 British troops is on its way to Tunisia to help “counter illegal cross-border movement” from Libya especially extremist militants according to U.K Defense Minister Michael Fallon. The British forces are invited to the country by the Read more
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Monday announced a $17.7 billion business project of Japanese companies in Egypt, funds that will weigh heavily into the Egyptian crumbling economy in need of foreign reserve and cash. Abe who made the announcement after Read more