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PM Putin Suggests Russia, China Ditch Dollar in Trade Deals

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed on Tuesday that Russia and China gradually switch over to national currency payments in bilateral trade, expected to total $50 billion in 2008...

Haneyya gov’t declares state of emergency after heavy rainfall

The Palestinian government headed by premier Ismail Haneyya declared a state of emergency after the extensive damage caused by the continuing rainfall in the Gaza Strip, instructing all its concerned ministries to provide urgent assistance to the citizens...

Introducing POMED’s Country Pages

If you haven’t already seen them, be sure to check out the new country pages here on POMED’s website. POMED’s research team has assembled a valuable collection of resources organized by country. For now, there are POMED country pages for five countries of the region: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and Turkey. There will be more pages covering additional countries soon to come. ..

PLC condemns barring international parliamentarian delegation from entering Gaza

In a statement received by the PIC, Dr. Marwan Abu Ras, the head of the parliamentary committee to lift the siege, deplored Monday the Egyptian decision to prevent an international delegation of lawmakers from entering Gaza to participate in breaking the siege...

Dignity boat arrives in Gaza despite Israeli threats

The Free Gaza Movement has announced that their third boat, the SS Dignity carrying 27 crew and passengers arrived in Gaza at 8:10 local time, in spite of Israeli threats to stop them. In the pouring rain, the boat pulled into the port amid cheers from the people of Gaza and tears from the passengers...

MB MP Condemns Assaulting Al Maidan Journalist

Mohsen Radi (member of the parliamentary bloc of the Muslim Brotherhood and a member of the Committee on Culture and Information in PA) demanded the Interior Minister to release Ahmed Zayed (a Journalist in Al Maidan newspaper)...

Kafr el-Sheikh: SSI Holds Maher Adul Azeem, Detains MB Leader

SSI in Kafr el-Sheikh governorate detained today, Tuesday October 28, the citizen Maher Adul Azeem despite issuing a release warrant for him by the general prosecution...

Four Students Expelled, 64 Others Investigated At Mansoura University

The University of Mansoura referred huge numbers of the MB students to disciplinary probes at several faculties. Faculty of Commerce referred 12 MB affiliates to investigations due to organizing a demonstration against forging and manipulating students union’s election, and referred other 13 students to probes on charges of planning for the "Free Union" inside the faculty and garnering their fellow students for other elections against the faculty’s administration...

Kafr El Sheikh University Expels five MB Affiliates

The administration of Kafr El Sheikh University dismissed five Brotherhood students for two weeks without any reasons. Expelled students are Ahmad El Zawi (Veterinary student) as well as other four students of Education; (Osama El Shami, Samir Abdul Haii, Karim El Askari, and Ibrahim El Shalawi...

Egypt decides to ban international parliamentary delegation from entering Gaza

The European campaign for lifting the siege on Gaza has strongly condemned the Egyptian government’s decision not to allow a big international delegation of MPs enter Gaza Strip, describing such decision as practical participation in the siege...

Anti-siege committee unveils a memorial for the victims of the siege

The popular anti siege committee has inaugurated on Monday a memorial to commemorate the victims who fell as a result of the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip that has been imposed almost two years ago..

Hamas debates points of agreement in Egyptian draft with Jihad, PFLP, DFLP

Hamas said that the Egyptian draft for inter-Palestinian conciliation was debated in a meeting late Monday with representatives of the Islamic Jihad Movement and each of the PFLP and DFLP in Gaza...

Planning minister: Siege hindered implementation of many projects

Dr. Mohammed Awad, the planning minister in the PA caretaker government in Gaza, has said that the Israeli siege and closure of crossings had blocked the implementation of many developmental and humanitarian projects in the Strip...

Israeli court refuses to allow Gaza families to visit their sons in jails

The Israeli higher court rejected the petitions filed by Adalah, the legal center for Arab minority rights, and the HaMoked center for the defense of the individual, on behalf of Palestinian families from the Gaza Strip to allow them to visit their sons imprisoned in Israeli jails...

The Plight of Dissidents in Egypt

Jeffrey Fleischman at Babylon & Beyond writes on the status of three political dissidents in Egypt: Ibrahim Issa was pardoned by Mubarak to affirm the president’s “concern for freedom of opinion”; Ayman Nour, is still in jail, however, since 2005; and, Saad Eddin Ibrahim remains in exile, avoiding a 2-year sentence handed down in absentia for “tarnishing Egypt’s reputation.”..

Aftermath of the Syrian Raid

As a consequence of the much publicized U.S. raid into Syria, The Wall Street Journal reports “Damascus largely froze high-level diplomatic efforts with the U.S. after an American strike inside the country, a move that threatens support for broader peace initiatives in the Middle East.” An opinion piece from the same source says the raid happened five years too late, while an editorial in the Washington Post says, in effect, “so what?” An opinion article in the LA Times, takes a look a..

Opening An Investigation Into Torturing Awseem’s Citizen

Chancellor Hisham Al Darandali, Attorney General of North Giza prosecutions, ordered to open an immediate investigation into the communication made by a citizen from Awseem city against the head of the State Security Investigations Bureau (in Imbaba); to accuse the latter of torturing him after storming his house without a warrant, as well as intimidating his family and threatening him to rape his wife...

Retirees Protest In Midst of Intense Security Measures

The Movement for Defending Pension Holders organized a protest in front of the National Social Insurance Authority in downtown Cairo in which hundreds of pension holders participated, in the midst of intensified security measures, to protest against the constitutional court’s failure to execute rulings no. 153 and 310...

Six MB Students Expelled From Banha University

The administration of the Faculty of Commerce in Banha University expelled six MB students for ten days without any prior investigations for welcoming their new colleagues...

MB Challenges Against Military Court Rulings To Be Looked Into Today

The Administrative Judicial Court will be looking into MB leaders’ ruling challenges, presented by the Defense Authority, against the Supreme Military Court in case no. 2 of the year 2007 in which MB leaders including ..