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Q&A with head of Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc

Mohamed Saad al-Katabny, head of the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc, told Al-Masry Al-Youm his organization will continue to use the slogan “Islam is the Solution” during the November parliamentary elections...

President Mubarak sets November 28 for parliamentary elections

According to official sources, the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has set Sunday November 28 for the country’s parliamentary elections. Run-offs are scheduled for December 5...

Escalating measures against MB members in Egypt’s governorates

Security services in Qena released 2 Muslim Brotherhood detainees after the Criminal Court in Qena ordered their release...

Zionist settlers burn olive fields, run over a youth

Zionist settlers ran over a Palestinian youth and burnt Palestinian olive fields in Bethlehem villages on Tuesday, local sources reported...

Lifeline 5 to leave this evening for Al-Arish seaport

The fifth aid convoy Lifeline for Gaza will leave Tuesday evening for the Egyptian seaport of Al-Arish after a delay in its departure due to financial problems with the cargo ship's owner...

Hundreds of settlers storm Nablus, Bethlehem to perform Talmudic rituals

Hundreds of Zionist fanatic settlers stormed the cities of Nablus and Bethlehem at dawn Tuesday to perform Talmudic rituals under protection of the Israeli occupation forces (IOF)...

Five Jerusalemites detained in Silwan

Israeli occupation police used force to quell separate marches by Palestinian young men in Silwan suburb, in occupied Jerusalem, on Monday evening...

US scholar calls on Mubarak to end unjustified attacks on students

A letter sent to President Mubarak by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) of North America a major American academic association devoted to Middle East studies has indicated that it viewed with grave concern the numerous recent violations against students...

Gov't shuts down 20 satellite channels ahead of parliamentary elections

Egypt’s government broadcaster NileSat turned the plug off more than 20 satellite stations claiming they aired programmes run by extremist hosts encouraging religion intolerance and violating broadcasting licenses...

5 MB members arrested while hanging posters calling for reform

Security forces in the Egyptian constituency of Kafr El-Sheikh, arrested 5 members of the Muslim Brotherhood while they were hanging posters and banners calling for reform and change...

MB offshoot in Jordan believes group’s presence in parliament is essential

The Muslim Brotherhood offshoot in Jordan the Islamic Action Front has stuck firm to its decision to boycott the elections scheduled for early November in protest to what they described as shortcomings of the amended electoral law in facilitating transparency of the electoral process...

Amnesty condemns MB arbitrary detentions

London based rights group Amnesty International accused Egyptian authorities of arresting large numbers of Muslim Brotherhood members in an attempt to hinder the country’s strongest political opposition group's elections campaign ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled for November...

Amnesty: Dozens detained in Egyptian pre-election crackdown on opposition

Amnesty International today called on the Egyptian authorities to immediately release, or charge with a recognizable criminal offence, more than 70 members of the Muslim Brotherhood group arrested this week...

Britain hangs out “welcome” sign to war criminals

Stuart Littlewood views the efforts of Israel’s stooges at the heart of the British government, William Hague and the Conservative Friends of Israel, to amend UK law so that Israeli officials accused of serious war crimes could visit Britain without fear of prosecution...

A question for the British foreign secretary

Mr Hague, is it not your responsibility to keep seaways open? Dignity, Mavi Marmara and now Irene..

Settler car assault victim placed under house arrest

One of the Palestinian boys who were recently run down by the car of an Israeli settler in Jerusalem’s Silwan district last week as seen on television was placed under house arrest...

Mishaal to meet a delegation of the Elders

Khaled Mishaal, the political bureau chairman of Hamas, is to meet with a delegation of the Elders in his office in Damascus on Tuesday, Ezzet Al-Resheq, political bureau member of Hamas, announced on Monday...

Internat'l Lifeline 5 aid convoy to Gaza delayed by side factors

Delays on the Lifeline 5 aid convoy’s departure were caused by an extortion attempt by the ship’s cargo operators, the Palestinian Information Center learned...

Rachel Corrie’s family meet daughter’s killer in court

A court hearing will be held next Thursday to listen to the testimonies of witnesses in the death of American activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed in cold blood by an Israeli bulldozer driver in Rafah in 2003...

Erdogan says wont attend climate conference if Netanyahu attends

Turkish premier Recep Erdogan has said that he would not attend the Mediterranean climate conference in Athens in the event Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu attends...