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Ministry of Public Works starts rebuilding destroyed homes

The Minister of Public Works and Housing in Gaza and a representative of the Turkish Foundation For Human Rights And Freedoms And Humanitarian Relief (IHH) on Thursday laid the foundation stone for rebuilding homes destroyed by the Israeli occupation army during the war on Gaza...

300 thousand Palestinian refugees within 1948-occupied Palestine

Many people, even some Palestinians, think that the only Palestinian refugees resulting from the creation of Israel in 1948 are those living in refugee camps in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip or neighbouring Arab countries, while in fact a large number of those uprooted from their villages became refugees within the Palestinian lands occupied in 1948...

Russia: other members of the Quartet have contacts with Hamas

The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed on Thursday that international communication had been opened with Hamas explaining that Moscow views Hamas as a movement that retains the confidence, sympathy and trust of a large segment of the Palestinian people...

Tens of thousands participate in two marches in Gaza to mark the Nakba

Tens of thousands of Palestinian participated on Friday in two huge marches in the Gaza Strip to mark the 62nd anniversary of the nakba...

Electronic monitoring of elections launched

The Arab Council and New World Organizations for human Rights launched an electronic network to monitor elections in Egypt ...

IAF in Jordan to solve disputes

Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood offshoot the Islamic Action Front (IAF) deferred a Shura Council meeting scheduled for Saturday, May 14...

Emergency law means more emergency for Egyptians

President Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs urged Egypt to complete its anti-terrorism legislation and repeal the emergency law which has been extended once again...

Beyond the burqa

IN MUSLIM countries, a conservative head-covering does not always mean being conservative in other ways...

Their view: Will administration continue to allow autocracy in Egypt

While the Obama administration was occupied with hosting a difficult ally - Afghan President Hamid Karzai - on Tuesday, another problematic friend took a big step toward perpetuating his corrupt and crumbling autocracy...

MB MP: Emergency Law, instrument of tyranny and oppression

Dr. Mohamed Saad Al Katatni, chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc has criticised the extension of the emergency law..

IOA begins a campaign of demolition in OJ, plans 12,000 housing units

Israeli public security minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch has said that a campaign of demolition against "illegal" Palestinian homes in eastern Jerusalem would start soon...

Palestinian fisherman dies after Egyptian battle cruiser hits his boat

A Palestinian fisherman died and his brother and two sons were injured when an Egyptian battle cruiser collided with their fishing boat on Wednesday morning...

UNRWA warns of complete halt to its operations

The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian refugees has warned that its operations would come to a complete halt by the end of September in the event necessary funds were not provided...

IOF troops round up 15 citizens, reinforce presence in OJ

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up 15 Palestinian citizens in the West Bank during their routine daily arrest campaign, Hebrew daily Yediot Arhonot said on its website on Wednesday...

Bardawil: The Palestinian fisherman was killed

Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil, a leading figure in the Hamas movement, on Wednesday accused an Egyptian gunboat with deliberately colliding with a Palestinian fishing boat earlier in the day then passing over the fisherman Mohammed Al-Bardawil to make sure that he was dead...

MB Shura candidate challenges NDP opposition

Kafr El-Sheik Shura candidate Ossama Husseini submitted an appeal challenging the legitimacy of NDP candidate Hoda Abdul Hamid Tablawy..

Mubarak's words anger opposition who argue that he practise what he preaches

An angry response from Egypt 's opposition echoed throughout the country after President Mubarak accused the opposition of failing to reach the country's poor through meaningless slogans...

FBI investigates anti-Muslim hate crime

FBI in Jacksonville USA called on residents to come forward with any information regarding an attack on the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida...

US Support for Democracy Key to Improving Muslim Relations

President Barack Obama's widely publicized speech in Cairo one year ago this June raised hopes that U.S. relations with the Muslim world might soon improve...

Egypt urged to lift state of emergency

Amnesty International deplores Tuesday’s renewal of the state of emergency by the Egyptian authorities, who rushed through parliament a two-year extension to emergency laws that have been used to crackdown on peaceful opposition protests...