Monday, August 31, 2015

'Largest ever gas field in the Mediterranian' found off the coast of Egypt

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The Italian petroleum and gas gigant ENI has discovered gas reserves of up to 30 trillion cubic feet in the Egyptian part of the Mediterran...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Cairo court sentences Al-Jazeera journalists to three years

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Mohammed Fahmy (l) and Baher Mohamed in court (Photo Reuters, April 2015). A Cairo court has sentenced three Al Jazeera journalists to th...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

''Saudi Arabia executes 1 person every 2 days, under a justice system that is deeply flawed''

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Between August 2014 and June 2015 at least 175 people were put to death – an average execution rate of one person every two days, Amnestu I...
Monday, August 24, 2015

''You stink'' campaign in Beirut postponed after one potester was killed and 402 people wounded

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Mass protest in Beirut. The picture (Reuters) is from Saturday 22 August 2015 A protest planned for Monday afternoon in Downtown Beirut h...

IS destroy Roman temple in Palmyra

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The Temple of  Baal Shahin before its destruction. Islamic State militants on Sunday blew up the temple of Baal Shamin, one of the most ...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

''Israel was close to attacking Iran in 2010, 2011 and 2012

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Barak, Netanyahu and the then chief od staff  Benny Gantz in 2012. (Foto Haaretz) The former Israeli Prime minister and Defense minist...
Friday, August 21, 2015

Israeli retaliations kill five or six people in Syria

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Israeli tank on the Golan overlooks the Syrian city of Quneitra. (Reuters) A new Israeli raid on Syrian-controlled territory in the Golan...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Car bomb near state security building in northern Cairo injures 29 people

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A car bomb explosion in front of a state security building in Qaliubiya's Shubra El-Kheima district early on Thursday injured at leas...

''The dangerous terrorist who committed his crimes while he was in jail''

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Suhayb Saad with other defendants in cages during their trial (Reuters.) By Ahmed Aboulenein CAIRO (Reuters) - Plainclothes Egyptian st...
Monday, August 17, 2015

Egypt adopts law that renders independent reporting effectively impossible

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President Siss poses with members of the security forces (Photo Al-Ahram) Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has approved an anti-te...

Alomost 100 people killed in airstrike on market in Douma near Damascus

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Syrian activists sayid on Monday that at least 96 people have died in government air strikes on a marketplace in the rebel-held town of Do...
Saturday, August 15, 2015

Houthis hand over last South Yemeni province to loyalists

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Southern People's Resistance militants loyal to Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi (Photo Reuters) Gulf-backed forces loyal ...