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A Cairo court Wednesday pressed life prison sentences against Mohamed Badie, leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and five other members of the organization, for igniting violence following the removal in 2013 of first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi. The Read more
Qatar Monday surprisingly announced it will give up its seat in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in January, explaining that the decision was not political. Yet, it blasted the oil cartel for being dominated by Saudi Arabia that Read more
Qatar will pull out from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in January 2019, the tiny Gulf’s minister of energy has announced. “Qatar has decided to withdraw its membership from OPEC effective January 2019,” Saad al-Kaabi said Monday at Read more
Egypt’s national flag carrier EgyptAir has revealed that the ongoing blockade imposed by the North African country, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain on Qatar over its alleged support for terrorism has created a significant dent in the Read more
A group of Egyptians have been kidnapped and held hostage in the east of Libya after the men fell out with a businessman who accused them of stealing part of a contract money. Egyptian residents from Nile Delta village of Read more
The Italian police Wednesday said it arrested an Egyptian man aged 22 on terror-related charges. He is accused of being the Islamic State group (ISIS) sympathizer. Issam Elsayed Elsayed Abouelayem Shalabi, a former McDonald cleaner according to the police, used Read more
Kuwait has expressed hope that next month summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to be held in Riyadh would help put an end to the ongoing diplomatic crisis that has plagued the grouping since June 2017. Kuwait’s deputy foreign Read more
A Palestinian fisherman died Wednesday after he was shot at by Egyptian naval forces, which opened fire on the fishing trawler on the Mediterranean. Mustafa Abu Awda, 32, from the Shatti refugee camp, died shortly after being brought on the Read more
The United States will invest about $200 million in Egypt by the end of 2018, according to the Chief of the US Mission in Egypt. Thomas Goldberger made the statement at the US Chamber of Commerce conference in Cairo on Read more
Qatar has called on Saudi Arabia to provide details on the whereabouts of four Qataris who the National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) believes went missing in the kingdom last year. “What the Saudi authorities are doing towards Qatari nationals is Read more