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  • HRW urges Yemen's national dialogue to reject political rights restrictions

    HRW urges Yemen's national dialogue to reject political rights restrictions

    Date: 2013-11-24 10:50:35 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:29 - ID:403903

    The Human Rights Watch has urged representatives to Yemen’s National Dialogue Conference to reject a proposal that would unnecessarily restrict the political rights of potential candidates for election to top offices. The conference’s Good ....

  • Director of MB office in Assiut arrested

    Director of MB office in Assiut arrested

    Date: 2013-11-24 10:29:25 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:28 - ID:403833

    Security forces arrested on Sunday Dr. Galal Abdel-Sadiq, the director of the Muslim Brotherhood administrative office in Assiut, while he was hiding in an apartment in this Upper Egyptian city. The man is accused of inciting the murder of three ....

  • Passengers, goods movement between Aswan, Sudan to boost as Cairo-Aswan train movement resumes

    Passengers, goods movement between Aswan, Sudan to boost as Cairo-Aswan train movement resumes

    Date: 2013-11-24 10:26:42 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:27 - ID:403826

    Passengers and goods crossing between Aswan's High Dam port and Sudan's Wadi Halfa harbor will further boost as Cairo-Aswan train movement resumes this week, Aswan Governor Moustafa Youseri said. Since the beginning of the year, about 22,000 ....

  • Israeli official: PM ruined ties with US, didn't prevent Iran deal

    Israeli official: PM ruined ties with US, didn't prevent Iran deal

    Date: 2013-11-24 10:19:30 GMT - Israel - International - SN:26 - ID:403813

    A senior official within the Israeli government fiercely criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following the interim agreement that was signed between Iran and the world powers in Geneva, Ynet reported on Sunday. "Netanyahu ruined the ....

  • US envoy not to visit Sudan within framework of regional tour

    US envoy not to visit Sudan within framework of regional tour

    Date: 2013-11-24 10:15:23 GMT - Sudan - Arab world - SN:25 - ID:403798

    US special envoy to Sudan Donald Booth, currently visiting Egypt, will not visit Sudan within the framework of a regional tour. In brief statements to the Sudanese newspaper al-Taghier out Sunday, Spokesman of the US embassy in Sudan Ronald ....

  • Five Palestinians arrested in West Bank

    Five Palestinians arrested in West Bank

    Date: 2013-11-24 10:10:58 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:24 - ID:403790

    Israeli occupation forces arrested on Sunday five Palestinians in the West Bank cities of Al-Khalil (Hebron), Jenin and Bethlehem. Local and security sources said that Israeli forces stormed Beit Ummar town, north of Al-Khalil, and arrested two ....

  • Rabaa Adaweya, Tahrir, Nahda squares closed over planned Brotherhood protests

    Rabaa Adaweya, Tahrir, Nahda squares closed over planned Brotherhood protests

    Date: 2013-11-24 09:20:29 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:21 - ID:403709

    Army and police forces closed early Sunday the squares of Tahrir, Rabaa el-Adaweya in Nasr City and Nahda in Giza as Moslem Brotherhood loyalists called for demonstrations to mark the passage of 100 days since breaking up the sit-in of Nasr City's ....

  • Israel lets 190 trucks loaded with goods into Gaza via Karam Abu Salem crossing

    Israel lets 190 trucks loaded with goods into Gaza via Karam Abu Salem crossing

    Date: 2013-11-24 09:16:03 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:20 - ID:403682

    Israeli occupation forces allowed the entry of 190 trucks laden with commodities into the Gaza Strip via Karam Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing. In a press release on Sunday, Head of the Coordination Committee for entry of goods in the Gaza ....

  • Death toll in China oil pipeline blast rises to 52 people after more bodies found

    Death toll in China oil pipeline blast rises to 52 people after more bodies found

    Date: 2013-11-24 09:14:12 GMT - China - International - SN:19 - ID:403678

    Rescuers have found more bodies at the scene of oil pipeline blasts in eastern China, bringing the death toll in one of the country's worst industrial accidents this year to 52, Fox News reported. The Qingdao government information office said on ....

  • FM slams deal with Iran: 'We're entering new era'

    FM slams deal with Iran: 'We're entering new era'

    Date: 2013-11-24 09:10:47 GMT - Israel - International - SN:18 - ID:403664

    After weeks of an intensive campaign to dissuade Western powers from striking a deal with Israel remained on the offensive, Ynet reported. Sunday morning, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said "there is no achievement in this agreement. This is ....

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