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In Egypt and Saudi Arabia, succession looms

Egypt President Hosni Mubarak and Saudi Arabia King Abdullah, both in their 80s, have long played leading Mideast roles. Some worry that successors will complicate relationships...

Israel uncomfortable with British support for UN report

A British diplomat voiced support for aspects of a UN report that could lead to the prosecution of Israeli army officers for alleged war crimes, but was met with disappointment by the Israeli's...

Disappointment in Israel after Turkey bans air exercises in an attempt to demonstrate opposition of Israeli's 2008 offensive against Gazans

The Turkish banning of Israel from participating in international air exercises because of its offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip last December has been met with disappointment and regret...

Opposition Divided on International Supervision of Elections

The Muslim Brotherhood and Gad party have decided to support a pact, which a number of public intellectuals have signed, demanding international supervision of the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections...

MB Chairman mourns leftist thinker Dr. Mohamed Al Sayed Said

Mr. Mohamed Mahdi Akef, Chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood, mourns the renowned Leftist thinker and writer Dr. Mohamed Al Sayed Said– Vice-chairman of Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies and founder of the daily independent newspaper Al-Badeel, who passed away Saturday evening at the age of 59 after a long struggle with cancer...

3 release orders issued for the detainees involved in Abul Fotouh's case.

State security released 3 Muslim Brotherhood leaders who were detained in the renowned case of 404 of 2009 with Dr. Abdul Moneim Aboul Fotouh after a release order was issued October 7...

Preparations for the release of Dr Mahmoud Hussein and Dr Mohamed Kamel due to health conditions

State Security transferred Dr Mahmoud Hussein from the Muslim Brotherhood's Executive Bureau and Dr Mohamed Kamel from the Brotherhood's governorate administrative office to their headquarters in Assuit preparing them for their release due to health conditions...

13 MB members from Sharqia, Suez and Gharbia detained for rallying against Israeli aggression at Al-Aqsa mosque

Prosecution from Zagazig, Suez and Gharbia decided detaining 13 members of the Muslim Brotherhood for a further 15 days on charges of organizing and taking part in street demonstrations and public protests denouncing the Zionist violations of Al-Aqsa mosque...

The Supreme Council Of Press In Egypt And The Ministry Of Interior In Morocco Encroach On Judiciary Authority

The Arabic Network For Human Rights Information , ANHRI, strongly resents the governmental decisions taken in both Egypt and Morocco against al Balagh newspaper in Egypt and AKbar Alyoum newspaper in Morocco...

Don’t mess with Palestine

The Egyptian government continued its crackdown on individuals who protest in support of Palestinians on Saturday...

Ashour: Israeli war created unprecedented birth deformities

Director of Al-Shifa hospital Dr. Hussein Ashour said Saturday that the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip created birth defects in newborns never seen before...

Calls for prisoners’ release

The Muslim Brotherhood and a number of domestic human rights groups have called for the release of a number of popular Brotherhood leaders after the interior ministry continues to refuse court orders for their release...

Muslim Brotherhood slam ban on

A group of MPs and an Islamist lawyer waged an unprecedented legal battle against one of Egypt's top Imams on Saturday after he issued a ban on women wearing the burka, or face veil, at any schools affiliated to al-Azhar, the world's top Sunni Islam institution...

Haneyya: The real battle of the Aqsa Mosque started

Palestinian permier Ismail Haneyya stated Friday that the real battle of the Aqsa Mosque has started, calling on the Arab and Muslim nations to assume their religious and moral responsibility in defense of the Aqsa Mosque...

Swiss organization calls for stopping Israeli attempts to attack Aqsa

The Swiss rights for all people organization called on the international community and the UN organizations to necessarily move to stop the repeated Zionist attempts to storm the Aqsa Mosque, which coincided with a serious military escalation against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip...

Pope Shenouda objects to Bio Research Center's minority report

A report issued by the Bio Research Center caused anguish to the minority religious population in Egypt, including Copts. Surveys revealed that the Egyptian Copts numbered only 5.4 percent as opposed to the assumed 10-15 percent that Coptic Pope Shenouda has often boasted about the church...

Al-Qaradawi: Qutb’s thought does not seem to belong to Brotherhood or Sunnis.

The Islamic preacher and scholar Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood had never adopted the excommunication violence ideology...

Muslim Brotherhood's university students promote "Bader" campaign.

"Bader" or "Initiate" is the title given to the campaign organized by the Muslim Brotherhood's Students in Egypt this year...

Muslim Brotherhood MP's to attend conference organized by Ayman Nour

Dr Mahmoud Ezzat, secretary general of the Muslim Brotherhood has asserted that Mr. Mohamed Mahdy Akef Chairman of the MB has appointed Hussein Mohamed Ibrahim and Dr Farid Ismail, both MP's, to attend a conference organized by Dr. Ayman Nour, founder of al-Ghad Political Party, to discuss the bequeathing of power from President Mubarak to his son Gamal...

Dr Gamal Heshmat and other MB face re-arrest after the issuing of release orders.

The Interior Ministry issued a new decision to re-arrest Gamal Heshmat and leading Brotherhood Figures from Al-Beheira as they were transferred into Wadi Al-Natron prison..