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Egypt’s Nile Delta going bye-bye?

It continues to spark controversy and debate: what is going on with Egypt’s Nile Delta region. According to some analysts, and even the government, the northern Nile Delta is under threat. That threat is coming as a result of global climate change and the likelihood that the fertile soil in the lush green that comprises the Delta could be under water and untenable in decades...

Egypt reports 10th Swine Flu death

Egypt on Sunday reported the 10th death from the deadly H1N1 influenza virus, commonly known as the Swine flu, as Egypt continues to witness the spread of the disease...

Egypt close to securing Israel-Hamas deal, officials say

CAIRO: Reports coming from Egypt on Monday indicate that a prisoner exchange deal between Hamas and Israel is closer to becoming a reality after Israel allegedly softened its hard-line terms for an agreement, officials said. Hamas officials are currently in Egypt for planned meetings with Egyptian intelligence officials over a proposed deal that would see Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit given back to Israel in exchange for around 150 Palestinian prisoners...

Iran's Crisis of Resistance

The "war on terror" was pretty great for Iran's hardliners. The Bush administration's 2002 inclusion of Iran in the "Axis of Evil" was a major blow to Iranian moderates, discrediting their calls for U.S.-Iran rapprochement and supporting the claims of Iran's hard-liners that engagement with America was pointless...

Egypt: Update - 22 Muslim Brotherhood detainees released

Alkarama has received news from inside Egypt of the release of several members of Muslim Brotherhood, some of whose cases Alkarama had previously submitted to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD). On 1 November 2009, Alkarama submitted 112 cases to the WGAD, all in connection with the Muslim Brotherhood...

Launching of Azhar students (Bader) campaign for the environment.

The Muslim Brotherhood students of the Medical Faculty in Azhar University launched a campaign following the initiative to help improve the environment. The campaign "Bader" or "Initiate" which is the student's movement's logo this year witnessed the students dressed in shirts with the logo printed on it decorating the university's halls, premises and entrance of the grounds...

Expert political analysts: Brotherhood‘s legitimacy forcibly imposed upon Egypt’s ruling regime

Influential politicians and trade unionists have unanimously agreed that the Muslim Brotherhood Movement have managed to achieve public legitimacy since it won 88 of the 454 parliamentary seats in the 2005 elections...

Abul Magd congratulates Abul Fotouh on his recent release.

Recently released Dr Abdul Monem Abul Fotouh secretary general of the Arab Doctors Union and a distinguished member of the Muslim Brotherhood Bureau received a warm and heart-felt telegraph congratulating him on his release from prison...

Friends of humanity asks Egypt to allow passage for Gazan students

The international organization "Friends of Humanity" has asked Cairo to put a final end to the problem of Palestinian students and other citizens stranded in the Gaza Strip...

ITUC Condemns Israel’s settlement expansion

The international trade union confederation has condemned the Israeli expansion of the Gilo settlement in the West Bank, describing the act as "illegal and immoral"...

New Israeli air raids on Gaza wound seven, damage homes

Palestinian eyewitnesses said that the Israeli air raids targeted a mobile home in northern Gaza and Al-Qassas area in Yibna refugee camp in Rafah,..

CMWU: The water situation in Gaza reached a critical stage

Director of coastal municipality water utility (CMWU) Mundher Shiblak warned Saturday that the current water situation in the Gaza Strip reached a critical stage, adding that Gaza water is no longer suitable for human consumption...

Arab League demands international inspection of Israeli jails

The general secretariat of the Arab League has called for opening the Israeli jails for international inspection and monitoring to put an end to the Israeli violations of Arab and Palestinian prisoners' rights...

Khater slams Arabs for not showing zeal for Aqsa as they do with football

Secretary-general of the Islamic-Christian commission Hasan Khater stated Saturday that Israel would not have dared to Judaize the occupied city of Jerusalem, desecrate its holy shrines and displace its people if..

B'Tselem: Israel killed 1,500 Palestinians since start of 2009

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM-- The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have killed 1,500 Palestinians since the start of 2009 mostly in the 22-day war on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli information center for human rights B'Tselem reported on Sunday...

IOA renews administrative detention of Dr. Fidda

NABLUS -- The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) renewed the administrative detention, without trial or charge, of Dr. Majeda Fidda for three months for the fifth time running, the international Tadamun institution for human rights said...

Nofal: Settlement activities intended for imposing a status quo in W.B and J'lem

Hamas lawmaker Emad Nofal stated Sunday that the escalating Israeli settlement expansion is aimed at imposing a status quo in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem in order to make it difficult for the Palestinians to talk about their independent state...

Bardawil: Israel escalation to probe international reaction

Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil, the spokesman of Hamas's parliamentary bloc, said that the latest escalation in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip was an attempt to probe the international reaction following the Goldstone report...

Bahar hails Marini for urging Europe to end the political isolation of Hamas

Dr. Ahmed Bahar, the first deputy speaker of the Palestinian legislative council (PLC), hailed Sunday Philippe Marini, a member of the French senate, for calling on European states to end the political isolation of Hamas and the Israeli blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip...

“No to Torture” the latest slogan compiled by citizens

Defense lawyers today submitted complaints to the Interior Minister, the Attorney General, Interior Ministry's Inspector, General Inspector of State Security at Aswan and the Attorney General of Aswan's Prosecutions demanding the immediate investigation of the torture of Ahmed Rajab who was arrested November 12...