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Ministry of Interior amends nomination and election regulations

Interior Minister Habib el-Adly, issued a decision amending the nomination and candidacy procedures for nominees in the upcoming Parliamentary Elections...

UK study finds widespread corruption in Egypt

The UK based Oxfam organization and semi-official Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies released a new report determining that official corruption has become widespread in Egypt...

Israel’s abuse of female prisoners on the rise

The International Tadhamun (Solidarity) Foundation for Human Rights revealed that a special Israeli unit spontaneously raided the cells of female inmates in the Damon prison and proceeded in a barbaric inspection operation a few days ago...

IOF troops interrogate worshipers as settlers burn fields

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) encircled the grand mosque in Raiheya village, Al-Khalil district, and interrogated worshipers inside it on Sunday evening, local sources told the PIC on Monday...

European campaign receives 9,000 requests to participate in Freedom Flotilla 2

The Brussels-based European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza said that there has been a large turnout for Freedom Flotilla 2, in terms of activists requesting to participate, and in terms of the number of ships...

Direct or Indirect talks, what is the difference?

The Obama administration, which seems to have completely surrendered to Israeli insolence and rejectionism, is pressuring the weak and disoriented Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership to switch from proximity or indirect talks with the Netanyahu regime to direct talks...

Egypt: Irregularities during Shura elections bode poorly for upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections

The National Democratic Ruling Party captured 80, of the 88 seats contested where 14 ruling party candidates ran unopposed...

Police brutality continues as detainee allegedly flung from fourth floor

In a new bout of police brutality, Nadim Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture reported that two police officers tortured a Mansoura man before flinging him from the fourth floor at the police station...

Activists assert trial of Khaled Saed's killers as victory for public outrage

Human rights activists welcomed the decision bChancellor Yaser Refaie, Prosecutor General of East Alexandria to refer Mahmoud el-Fallah and Awad Ismail from Sidi Gaber Police station for killing Khaled y Saed...

Lawyers welcome case opened against Khaled Saed's police killing

Alexandria's Attorney General Councilor Yaser Refaie has ordered the referral of the two informants; Mahmoud Al-Falah and Awad Sayed who were involved in the killing of the "emergency-law martyr" Khaled Saed to Criminal Court yesterday...

Islamophobia reaches its peak with protests against mosque construction

Recent protests calling to stop the construction of a large mosque on a quiet residential street in Brooklyn, other parts in the US and Europe have been faced by much controversy laced with ignorance and racism...

Zionist extremists planning to evict 40 Jerusalemites

Hebrew daily Yediot Ahronot reported on Sunday that Zionist settlers have threatened to evict the occupants of a Palestinian building in East Jerusalem...

Malaysian aid convoy arrives in Gaza Strip

Relief aid and medicines from the Aman Palestine Institute in Malaysia with an estimated worth of $100,000US arrived in Gaza on Sunday morning via the Egyptian Rafah crossing...

Israeli court elongates Palestinian MP Abu Tair’s sentence

Fadi Qawasemi, the attorney for the Jerusalemite MPs threatened with deportation from Jerusalem, said that the Israeli court has decided to extend Jerusalem MP Mohammed Abu Tair’s detention until Monday next week...

Clinton criticizes Egypt 's democracy

Hillary Clinton US secretary of state expressed her concern about Egypt 's state of democracy and human rights...

Zahhar: No new proposals on exchange deal

Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahhar, a political bureau member of Hamas, has denied that new proposals were tabled regarding the prisoners' exchange deal between the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) and Palestinian resistance factions holding the soldier Gilad Shalit...

IOF soldiers break into MP's home, detain 3 Palestinians

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) broke into the home of MP Mohammed Al-Tal in Dhaheria town, southwest of Al-Khalil, at dawn Sunday...

IOA to build 60 new housing units in OJ

The Israeli organization and construction committee is to endorse the construction of 60 new housing units in Eastern Jerusalem that would coincide with Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington...

Gov't releases MB members calling for dismissal of Alexandria police chief

Nine members of the Muslim Brotherhood members were arrested in Alexandria after launching a campaign calling for the dismissal of Major Mohamed Ibrahim head of security in Alexandria have been released..

Protesters picket speech by Israel's Tzipi Livni at New York City's Russian Tea Room

Chanting "Tzipi Livni, you can't hide — we charge you with genocide" and calling for Livni to be prosecuted for Israeli war crimes in Gaza...