Egypt Court Quashes Morsi Life Sentence
Egypt’s highest appeal court has overturned a life sentence handed down to ousted President Mohammed Morsi. The Court of Cassation ordered that the 65-year-old be retried on the charge of...
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Nov. 15 Middle East News Summary At 2200 GMT
RIYADH — A Saudi-led coalition said that a missile fired from Yemen toward the border city of Najran was intercepted, Saudi Press Agency reported on Tuesday. The Saudi Royal Air Force destroyed the...
Nov. 15 World News Summary At 1530 GMT
ABUJA — The Nigerian police have confirmed nine deaths were recorded following a clash between policemen and the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, also known as Shi’ites sect, in the northwestern...
Mohammed Morsi Death Sentence Overturned
Egypt's highest court has overturned a death sentence against ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. Morsi had been condemned to death for his part in a mass prison break during the 2011...
Egypt Wins Approval For $12bn Loan From the IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a three-year $12bn (€11bn) loan for Egypt to help the country out of its deep economic crisis. Egypt will receive $2.75bn immediately, with the...
Egypt Wins Approval For $12bn IMF Loan
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a three-year $12bn (€11bn) loan for Egypt to help the country out of its deep economic crisis. Egypt will receive $2.75bn immediately, with the...
Egyptian Police Arrest Scores of Anti-Sisi Protesters
At least 130 people have been arrested across Egypt as calls for an uprising against poor economic conditions and rising prices went largely unheeded. In the capital Cairo, where riot police had been...
Ghana/Africa; the Politburo
By Charles Yeboah In an era when physical structures were giving way to soft ones, when one could set up an office on a gadget, when there was no need to erect skyscrapers for the purposes of...
Senior Muslim Brotherhood Leader ‘shot Dead’ In Egypt
The Interior Ministry said Mr Kamal was in charge of the orgaisation's armed wing A senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood organisation has been killed by Egyptian Interior Ministry forces, the...
From Regeni To Libya, The Difficult Path Towards Normalization
The last, recent joint note of Italian and Egyptian attorneys on Giulio Regeni's murder shows that a good degree of cooperation in the investigation has been finally reached. Unfortunately that has...
Egypt Freezes Assets of Leading Rights Campaigners
An Egyptian court on Saturday upheld a decision to freeze the assets of several prominent human rights campaigners in the latest blow to a once-vibrant activist community that has been largely...