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Turkiye's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Saturday urged Denmark to take urgent action to prevent burnings of the Qur'an, a Turkish foreign ministry source said, Reuters reports. In a...
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Dr Ramzy Baroud
In a recent speech, China's highest-ranking diplomat Wang Yi spoke of a "united Asia" and its need to develop a "strategic autonomy". In principle, Wang was not wrong; after...
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French-language Algerian newspaper Le Soir d'Algerie reported that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) may have played a role in the attempted coup against Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum. The newspaper...
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Israel's Kan channel reported on Friday night that Bahrain had postponed the visit of the Israeli Foreign Minister to the country. According to the Israeli channel, commentators believe Bahrain...
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African leaders pressed Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on Friday to move ahead with their peace plan to end the Ukraine conflict and to renew a deal on the safe...
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Sudanese paramilitary leader, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, called for the replacement of Army leadership on Friday in his first on-camera appearance since fighting broke out, Reuters...
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The US Treasury Department, on Thursday, imposed sanctions and designated Abdiweli Mohamed Yusuf, the leader of the Daesh terrorist organisation based in Somalia, as a global terrorist, Anadolu Agency...
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US National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, met Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, on Thursday in Jeddah, the White House said, as US officials search for ways to...
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Muslims, worldwide, have condemned the desecration and burning of the Quran in Denmark and Sweden, asserting that these attacks cannot be justified by freedom of expression, Anadolu Agency reports....
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Following the Israeli recognition of Morocco's sovereignty over the Western Sahara, Israeli voices are still raising more questions about the feasibility of this step, and whether it will be...
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Tunisian Prime Minister Naglaa Boudin announced yesterday the start of preparations for a national action plan in the field of business and human rights, Anadolu news agency reported. This...
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The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday condemned the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli government officials and hundreds of extremists and the prevention of Muslim worshippers from exercising...
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Egypt's government will implement emergency moves, including rationing electricity and increasing fuel oil imports, as it bids to tackle a summer power shortage, the country's Prime Minister said on...
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The United Nations Libya mission warned, on Thursday, against "unilateral initiatives" to address the country's political stalemate after two legislative bodies proposed creating a new interim government as a...
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Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on Thursday announced that his country will provide free grain to six African countries in the next three to four months, Anadolu Agency reports. "We...
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A number of parliamentarians in Tunisia have been collecting signatures for a petition calling for the country's Ennahda Movement to be classified as a "terrorist organisation", allegedly in response...
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Tunisian President Kais Saied said on Tuesday that there is "no turning back" on the reform plan he adopted to improve the situation in Tunisia. This came during a...
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If you ask any Libyan citizen about the biggest obstacles hindering political solutions in the country, the most likely answer is: external interferences and the disputes of local de-facto...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday told his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, that the Dabaa nuclear power plant project is being implemented as planned. This came during a meeting...
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Turkiye welcomed the UN General Assembly's resolution that deplores all acts of violence against Holy Books as a violation of international law, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday,...
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A Tunisian farmer has lost all his chicken coops and 94 beehives to the recent wildfires that swept through the region. As temperatures hit 50 degrees celsius and wildfires are projected to rise in the future, Hakim Al-Ruwaisi now worries for his livelihood but hopes to rebuild it again.
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Ali Pasha revolutionised nineteenth century Egypt, but was a violent and controversial figure
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The Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (EEHC) has issued a warning to citizens, urging them to avoid using elevators at specific times due to power outages, amid an ongoing heat...
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni criticised the strategy adopted by her predecessors in dealing with Egypt over the murder of Giulio Regeni in Cairo in early 2016. According to...
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Early this week, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said that his country's independence would never be complete as long as Palestine is occupied. Echoing the words of the late South...
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The Spanish Maritime Rescue Service said yesterday that a dead person had been found on a boat carrying 84 irregular migrants, which was spotted near the Canary Islands in...
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Al Jazeera has condemned Egypt's blacklisting of some of its journalists as alleged terrorists, amid Cairo's continued crackdown on journalists within the country who do not conform to authorities...
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The Central Bank of Egypt announced yesterday that remittances from Egyptians working abroad have decreased by 26.1 per cent this fiscal year. During the first nine months of the...
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A video is circulating online showing an outraged Libyan border guard criticising the forcible deportation of black Africans from Tunisia into the desert. In the video he approaches a...
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The Russian Ambassador to Cairo, Georgy Borisenko, said his country has contacted Ethiopia "several times" and urged it to take into account Egypt's concerns regarding Addis Ababa's Grand Ethiopian...
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The Public Prosecutor of the Judicial Council of Algeria's Bejaia Province announced yesterday that 14 suspected arsonists have been arrested in connection with deadly forest fires that have killed...
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Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom has expressed his country's deep regret and categorical rejection of the repeated incidents when copies of the Holy Quran were burned by protesters, describing...