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Washington to arm Israel with 20 stealth planes

WASHINGTON, -- Israel and U.S. representatives signed in the Israeli Consulate in New York Thursday night an arms deal under which Israel will buy 20 F-35 fighter planes (stealth) from the U.S. for 2.75 billion dollars...

Zionist settlers attack farmers during olive harvesting

RAMALLAH, -- Zionist settlers attacked Palestinian farmers in Burin village, south of Nablus, on Saturday morning while harvesting olives, local sources reported...

Palestinians Angered over Jewish state loyalty in Israel

A drafted law proposed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and submitted to the Knesset has angered Palestinians who represent 20% of the population...

Ghoul urges world community to put on trial Israeli war criminals

Palestinian minister of prisoners in the Gaza Strip Mohammed Al-Ghoul has asked the international courts to immediately put on trial the Israeli war criminals...

New Libyan aid convoy to head for Gaza

TRIPOLI, -- A new Libyan aid convoy dubbed Quds-5 is finalizing preparations to head for the Gaza Strip carrying relief material, a media source in Gaza revealed...

MB calls on the nation to combat electoral rigging

Media Spokesmen for the Muslim Brotherhood called on Egyptian citizens from different sects, trends, national, political powers and ideologies to unite...

University students furious over rigging of student union elections.

Muslim Brotherhood students at the University of Alexandria staged a massive march on campus, last week protesting against the alleged rigging of the students' union elections...

Lawyers will not be prevented from monitoring elections

The Sharia Committee and the Freedoms Committee at the Lawyers Syndicate has begun receiving applications from lawyers wishing to monitor the upcoming parliamentary elections under the initiative “A Lawyer for Each Ballot Box”...

MB chairman confirms group will contest 30% of parliamentary seats

The Muslim Brotherhood’s chairman Dr. Mohamed Badie confirmed that the MB, Egypt's largest opposition group, will contest 30 percent of the 518 parliamentary seats in next month's parliamentary elections...

Jewish settler runs over three Palestinian children in Jerusalem

Three Palestinian children were wounded Friday in the Silwan suburb of Jerusalem when a Jewish settler deliberately ran then over...

Israeli occupation airstrikes on Gaza result in 11 casualties

The number of casualties resulting from Israeli occupation airstrikes on different parts of the Gaza Strip rose to 11 people, one of them a resistance commander affiliated with Palestine Eagles Brigades, who survived an assassination attempt by the Israeli occupation...

Jewish settlers torch Palestinian cultivated fields

Jewish settlers on Thursday afternoon set fire to large areas of Palestinian owned land in the village of Hawwara to the south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, according to local sources...

Israeli settlers' attacks on mosques on the rise

The international Tadamun foundation for human rights has warned that the IOF troops and the Israeli settlers' attacks on Palestinian mosques have increased rapidly this year, indicating a hidden Israeli scheme against Muslim holy shrines in occupied Palestine...

Activist abducted while collecting signatures for reform

State security forces abducted, activist Abdullah al-Saadawi, from the Imbaba district in Cairo while he was collecting signatures during door knocking in support of the chartered seven demands for reform...

Full text of Speech by MB Chairman Mohammed Badie

Egyptians in Egypt are currently facing the most difficult of times. Problems ranging from the absence of constitutional and legal rights...

Critics question Obama's authenticity in call for democracy

An article posted in the Washington post by Fred Hiatt discusses the US commitment to prioritise its call for democracy worldwide...

MB to announce stance on 2010 parliamentary elections during press conference

Dr. Mohamed Morsy, media spokesman and Executive Bureau member for the Muslim Brotherhood group announced that the MB will declare its position regarding the upcoming parliamentary elections during a press conference...

Egypt contemplates a greener agenda in the political arena

Egypt has witnessed the establishment in 1990 of The Green Party of Egypt, ‘Hizb al-Khodr’ by the Papyrus Institute’s founder in Egypt, the late Hassan Ragab highlighting that priority given to the awareness of the environmental agenda existed in the country even before international calls for action were heard...

Sunni scholars commend Khomeini’s decree

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah 'Ali Khomeini issued a new fatwa on October 2 forbidding the defamation of the Prophet Muhammad's wife, or any other historic figurehead sacred to the Sunni Muslims...

Qiresh Family Eviction: 1948 Ethnic Cleansing Continues [must see]

Tala Qiresh, the little Palestinian girl in the pictures, and her family have been evicted from their home in Old Jerusalem and despite the lawyer's intervention, the soldiers refuse them entry. The Qiresh family lived in that house since 1940 with 40 other residents in 20 rooms...