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Facebook removes violent ‘intifada’ page
Facebook has removed a page calling for a new Palestinian uprising against Israel after more than 350,000 people signed up to it.
The page which...
American tourist stabbed dead in Israel
An American tourist was brutally stabbed to death in Israel as she hiked with a friend who says they were attacked by a pair...
Wikileaks could create Iranian isolationism
Revelations from leaked U.S. diplomatic cables that some Arab countries called on the U.S. to take military action against Iran and that Israel's Mossad...
Nigeria: Iran remains quiet over seized arms ship
Nigerian authorities have failed to get any comments from the Iranian embassy in Nigeria concerning an arms-loaded ship from Iran which was seized by...
Morocco’s militant hackers
They are militant hackers who have attacked sites in Egypt, Morocco, Spain, Israel... Their screen messages have been likened to messages on banners hoisted...
Egypt: Middle East peace talks useless?
After another round of direct talks in the idyllic setting of Sharm El-Sheikh, in Egypt, Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas will shake hands, smile...
Medically assisted procreation on the rise
Medically assisted procreation (MAP) is on the increase. And according to an international study, between 219,000 and 246,000 children are born worldwide thanks to...
Egypt: Mubarak’s “terminal” cancer sparks fears
An insistent rumour over President Hosni Mubarak’s health has been assessed by Western intelligence sources. Israel and its American ally may be losing sleep...
Libyan-Gaza-Israel Amalthea aid ship standoff as it happened
Amalthea, a ship chartered by the Libyan Gaddafi Foundation to deliver food and medicine to the Palestinian people who have been under Israeli naval...
Israel launches spy satellite
Israel has launched a surveillance satellite that will be used to spy on Iran's nuclear programme, reports say.
The satellite's high resolution camera would significantly...
Morocco: North Africans renew support to Palestinians
After several spontaneous demonstrations that took place around Europe and Africa, more than 50,000 demonstrators took to the streets of Rabat, Monday, in support...
Israeli assault on Gaza flotilla
As news came in of the mounting death toll from the Israeli storming a humanitarian flotilla heading for Gaza, the British actor and comedian...
South Africa-Israel: SA deports Israeli spy
South Africa has deported an Israeli airline official following allegations that Isreal’s secret police, Shin Bet, have been operating in Johannesburg’s international airport. The...
Egypt: US still opposed to Israeli settlements?
Unites States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton repeated that the Obama administration does not accept the legitimacy of Israeli West Bank settlements and...
Middle East Peace Process: Hillary Clinton disappoints the Arab League
Hillary Clinton, U.S. secretary of state arrived Monday in Marrakech, Morocco, to meet ministers of the Arab League. Her agenda focuses on press freedom...
Egypt: Let Israeli Breast Cancer Experts in
The American Jewish Committee urged the Egyptian government to allow a team of Israeli breast cancer researchers to enter the country for a major...
Nigeria: Israel to aid government forces to flush out rebels?
The Nigerian government seeks Israeli warships and training as it prepares for an all-out-out military operation against rebel groups in the Niger Delta who...
Ethiopia-Israel: Avigdor Lieberman meets Meles Zenawi to promote commerce
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Avigdor Lieberman, accompanied by 23 Israeli business personalities are expected to hold talks with Ethiopian...
Egypt-US: Mubarak meets Obama to revive Middle East peace process
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Saturday, embarked on an official visit to the United States. It is his first visit to the country since relations...
Egypt invites Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister, in his first official visit abroad since his election in late March, is expected to meet Egyptian President Hosni...
Israeli Prime Minister to visit Egypt
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has invited the new Israeli leader to visit Egypt, the Israeli Embassy in Cairo said in a statement. The Israeli...
Durban Review Conference: World Jewish Congress Calls for Repeal of 2001 Clauses Stigmatizing Israel
The president of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald S. Lauder, has called for an explicit revocation at the forthcoming United Nations Durban Review Conference...
Egypt – Israel: Before the war of Kippour
Before the war of Kippour in 1973, Sadat had persuaded King Faisal to use petrol as an arm against the state of Israel... Yet...
Israel cleans its capital: African migrants must move out!
Some 3,000 African asylum-seekers have to leave Tel Aviv because of an August 2008 ruling by the Israeli Ministry of the Interior. The ruling...
Tunisia snubs Arab summit on Gaza situation following Israeli military offensive
Tunisia will not attend the extraordinary Arab summit scheduled for Friday in the Qatari capital, Doha, to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip...
Protest marches continue in Tripoli, Libya
Businesses in Tripoli were shut while school children gathered in the city centre Thursday as protests continued across Libya against the Israeli ground, air...
Israeli embassy attack in Mauritania thwarted by police
Police in Mauritania have foiled an attempt by an unidentified Mauritanian citizen to attack the Israeli embassy in Nouakchott Wednesday, security sources said. According...
Islamic, Jewish and Christian clerics to meet in Paris, France
Imams and Rabbis from Israel and the Palestinian Territories as well as many from other countries including Egypt, Iran, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia,...
Egypt’s leading Islamic cleric says Hamas has committed an “abominable crime”
After Hamas prevented Muslims seeking to leave Gaza for the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Egypt's leading cleric Mohamed Tantawi has condemned the...
Libyan humanitarian ship turned away by Israeli forces most likely to return to Libya
A Libyan ship on its way to Gaza with 3,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid was Monday turned back by the Israeli navy. The ship,...