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US envoy pushes Syria for Mideast peace

The American Middle East envoy said Syria’s role in the Middle East peace efforts are vital amid antagonism over Washington’s unwavering support for Israel and ignoring Palestinian rights and demands...

Egypt goes undefeated in group stage, hopes abound

As the crowd began to exit a Cairo cafe on Wednesday night, the smiles that graced scores of Egyptians were part of the hope and optimism created by the national football team’s third consecutive victory in the African Cup of Nations. Egypt beat Benin 2-0 on Wednesday to complete the group phase with three victories and no losses...

Egypt police clash with protesters over flood crisis

Egyptian police employed tear gas and rubber bullets on Wednesday in order to disperse residents in a Sinai town hit hard by recent flooding in the area and a perceived lack of governmental preparedness in assisting the people in the area...

Three arrested in Ni’ilin night raid

Three residents of Ni’ilin were arrested in a pre-dawn military incursion into the village of Ni’ilin today. This is the 15th time such a raid was conducted in the past month in order to apprehend Palestinian anti-Wall activists. Today’s arrests are a continuation of a concerted assault on the popular struggle movement and its leadership...

Egypt to get fourth mobile operator: newspaper

The Egyptian daily economic newspaper al-Mal said on Thursday that Egypt is currently looking into offering a fourth mobile operator’s license in the country...

Hamas: 1967 borders acceptable

Allegations that the Palestinian organization was prepared to accept “temporarily” an independent Palestinian state within the territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 war has been countered by another Hamas official...

Egypt to play Spain in friendly

Egypt and Spain have agreed to face off in a friendly match scheduled for June 4. The European champions will use the match against the African champions as a pre-World Cup tune-up...

Headlines from the region

The airport of Marrakesh – Menara is part of the 13 best airports in the world, according to a classification established by the monthly “Travel and Leisure” magazine that is published by Conde Nast in New York...

Egypt: Prominent Egyptian Bloggers and Activists Detained

In a show of solidarity to the Egyptian families suffering after the loss of their loved ones in the attacks on the eve of the Orthodox Coptic Christmas, a large group of prominent Egyptian bloggers and political activists journeyed to the town of Nag Hammadi in southern Egypt...

State Security follows through their unjust arrests.

Security Services launched a new campaign of arrests against the Muslim Brotherhood movement from the Daqahleya governorate...

In his first weekly statement Badie stresses on the importance of consultation and democracy.

In his statement titled "Praise be to Allah by whose grace there is achievement" Badie commended the former Chairman Mohamed Mahdi Akef who successfully illustrated these measures where he lead the group through hardships despite much skeptism from opposition. Akef was able to face and avert the fabricated lies, which faced the group even through the hardest, and most testing of times demonstrating admirable maturity and tolerance...

Complaint Filed Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al

Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A. has filed a Complaint with the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) in The Hague against U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales (the “Accused”) for their criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition” perpetrated upon about 100 human beings. This term is really their euphemism for the enforced disappearance of persons and their consequent torture. This criminal policy and practice by the Accused constitute Crimes against Humanity in violation of the Rome Statute establishing the I.C.C...

Israel's Assassination Policy

In recent weeks Israel has escalated its practice of assassinations in the West Bank and Gaza. At the end of December, Israeli special forces broke into the Nablus homes of Anan Subih, Raed Surkaji, and Ghassan Abu Sharekh killing them both...

Arab World: Meet the new head of the Muslim Brotherhood

Last Saturday in Cairo, the Muslim Brotherhood announced that it had elected Muhammad Badee as its new supreme leader, a succession which comes at a critical time. A few months ago, Muhammad Mahdi Akef - who had ruled the organization for the past six years - stated that he would not seek another mandate, thus sparking a crisis of major proportions...

Abuse and torture or neglect by authorities a toss up of which is worse.

Human rights in Egypt continue to call on the authorities to absolutely prohibit the use of torture, without exception and without "special permits", and to pass legislation specifically outlawing and criminalizing torture...

IDF Scandal: Israel Stealing Organs In Haiti

A fresh scandal of the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) has just emerged in Haiti, a recent probe by a black rights activist has called into investigation of what he said was " informal and illegal organ harvesting" of dozens of bodies killed in the late earthquake that hit the caribbean island 9 days ago...

The new wake of Al-Qaeda

The French expert ANNE GIUDICELLI stressed that the recent failed operation carried out by the Nigerian Farouq Abdel Motaleb demonstrates a new strategy of the network that would extract it from the traditional and historical Arab region, which was represented in preferring the Arab element to others in Al-Qaeda...

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Chooses New Leader

Egypt's largest opposition movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, announced Saturday it has chosen a new leader, a conservative academic who looks unlikely to challenge the government's relentless crackdown on the group...

The Muslim Brothers' new leader,,Which way now?

THE election of a new leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the Arab world’s most influential movements, has aroused an oddly muted response, not just from the group’s critics but from fellow-travelling Islamists as well...

Lawyers syndicate compile file for mock hearing against NDP leaders.

The freedoms committee in the Lawyers Syndicate initiated a mock hearing, which is still to be scheduled. A file will be brought together including archives of the corruption, scandals and thefts believed to be practiced by the NDP...