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Israel pressures against endorsement of UN report condemning it of war crimes

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has bowed to Israeli pressures and did not endorse a UN fact finding commission’s report condemning Israel for war crimes committed during its war on Gaza, Hebrew media indicated...

9% Unemployed in Egypt Including 90% Degree-Holders

The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) reported an increase in the unemployment rate in Egypt during the first quarter of the year 2009 adding up to 9.4% in comparison to the 8.8% during the final quarter of the year 2008 which increased, during the same period, to 9% after the global financial crisis...

Re-arrest of Four Students from Fayoum After Being Released

The Ministry of Interior has issued a decision to arrest the four students from Fayoum who were arrested on grounds of the recent incidents in Fayoum University. The Ministry of Interior refused to implement the Prosecution’s decision, issued on Sunday 3rd of May 2009, to release them and transferred them to Wady Al-Natron prison...

Preventing Wagdy Ghoneim and Safwat Hegazy from Entering Britain

The British Home Office decided to add two Egyptians to a list which includes 16 names of people barred from entering Britain, whom they described as "promoting hatred" and those are Safwat Hegazy and Wagdy Ghoneim...

Obama Approval High Among Muslims, Jews, and Catholics

Gallup Poll Daily tracking during President Obama’s first 100 days in office finds broad support for him among Americans affiliated with most major U.S. religions. U.S. Muslims and Jews give Obama his highest job approval ratings, at 85% and 79%, respectively. He also receives solid majority support from Roman Catholics (67%) and Protestants (58%), and more approval than disapproval from Mormons...

Spanish judge presses on with Israeli war crime probe

The Spanish judge Fernando Andreu on Monday declared that he would press ahead with investigating Israeli crimes against humanity committed in the aerial bombardment of a Gaza building in 2002..

Mansoura University Students Protest Against Dismissal of their Colleagues

Student of the Faculty of Law- Mansoura University organised a protest on Tuesday afternoon objecting the withdrawal of Dr. Sayed Abdel Khaleq (Faculty Dean) promises to cancel the decision of dismissal to 13 of the faculty students for a whole semester and denying them the entry to all subjects of the second semester...

Shura Council Calls On Emergency Government For Confronting Crises

In a heated meeting in front of the Health Committee led by Dr. Saleh El-Shimy, Shura Council members called on President Mubarak to form an emergency government responsible for confronting the catastrophes and crises facing the Egyptian people. Shura members further requested the resignation of the Finance Minister and launched a scathing attack on Dr. Ahmed Nazif’s government when the garbage and pig flu issues were raised describing it as the “government of only the rich.”..

Hamas renews election of Mishaal as political bureau chairman

The Hamas Movement has completed its internal elections process and renewed chairmanship of Khaled Mishaal for its political bureau for the fourth consecutive time, a responsible source in the Movement said on Sunday...

Conference on Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa; Judaization hazards called in Cairo

We are pleased to invite you to attend political and national powers Forum under the title: Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa... Judaization hazards..

6 MP activists arrested in Port Said

State security forces yesterday detained 6 of Ikwan members in Port Said in a continuous escalation of State Security Service campaigns against the Muslim Brotherhood members..

Al-Shorouq to suspend journalist on state security pressure

A press committee in Egyptian newspaper Al-Shorouq ordered to suspend journalist Eman Abdel-Moneim Mahmoud under the pretense that she sympathizes with Egypt ’s Muslim Brotherhood...

“Development and Reform” the Slogan of Islamic Constitutional Movement in Elections of Kuwait

Dr. Hamad Al-Matar and Dr. Jamaan El-Harbash (candidates of the Islamic Constitutional Movement in the second constituency in Kuwait) stressed that Kuwait is currently living “a real political crisis” and the movement wants to participate in the elections of 16 May 2009, in order to work on solving this crisis with developing a board development program to contain the effects of the global financial crisis and to make Kuwait a pioneer in the gulf...

Anti siege committee asks Palestinians in Europe to intensify media efforts

The higher committee against the siege has highly appreciated the Palestinians living in Europe for their insistence on their right of return to their homeland Palestine and asked them to intensify media efforts to counter the Zionist propaganda campaigns...

Challenge Filed Against Interior Ministry After Preventing Badi’ from Travel

The First District (People’s) Administrative Court will be looking into the challenge filed by Dr. Mohamed Badi’, Professor of Veterinary Medicine in Cairo University and Member of the MB Executive Bureau, against each of the Minister of Interior and Manager of Passport, Travel, Immigration, and Nationality Services, on the upcoming June 16...

4 MB Activists Arrested in Sharqiyya, Zaqazeeq

State security forces raided the Islamic Da’wah office yesterday in Sharqiyyah arresting its owner Mohamed El-Zayyat and two others, Abdel-Nasser Abdel-Hamid, a math teacher, and Gamal Mohamed Salem, a teacher, who had been around in the office at the time of the raid..

Human Rights Organization Warns Against Bar Association’s Elections Forgery

Swanseya Centre for Human Rights and Combating Discrimination warned against the continuous intervention of the government in the elections of the Bar Association and attempts to politicize it, emphasizing that this is a prelude to forgery, for certain lists to gain the required votes...

Fight Against Swine Flue Spreads to Internet

In the framework of all institutional attempts to control the crisis of swine flu in Egypt, the Egyptian fight against the virus has spread to internet where a group of Egyptian activists created a committee on facebook called “the National Committee for Countering Swine Flu” which aims at warning from the dangers of this disease and to increase Egyptian’s awareness of the disease and ways to prevent it...

On World Press Freedom Day: Press, Journalists in Egypt Between Trials and Suppression

On May 3rd of every year, the world celebrates Press Freedom Day through the publication of reports on violations of freedom of thought and expression. The UN General Assembly had first called for the celebration of World Press Freedom Day in 1993 in order to assess press freedom around the world, protect media against attacks on its independence, and honor journalists who faced legal and security annoyances in their quest for the truth...

Will Obama’s Administration Reconsider its Hamas Stance

Despite its declared attitude towards Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, the new US administration hasn’t made any change in the stance towards the movement when compared with former president Bush era. It still declines to with a government headed by or includes the movement so long as it doesn’t recognize the international "Quartet". However, some observers see that this attitude is not final and some changes may occur in president Obama’s era, according to recommendations of US and ..