Crisis in Tahrir

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Pak-trained Algerian Al Qaeda operative had Indian embassy in Paris in cross-hair

Pak-trained Algerian Al Qaeda operative had Indian embassy in Paris in cross-hair

19 May 2012 | Comments (0)

New Delhi: An Algerian terrorist who was a Pakistan-trained member of the Al Qaeda, had been ordered to attack the Indian Embassy in Paris this year, a leading French newspaper has claimed. The Le Monde, one of France’s most popular newspapers, quoting French intelligence sources however said that the 23-year-old Algerian was shot dead by [...]

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Hooria Mashour condemns former Yemeni President

Hooria Mashour condemns former Yemeni President

18 May 2012 | Comments (0)

SANA’A: Yemen’s Human Rights Minister Hooria Mashour announced on Wednesday at a press Conference that she estimated that former President Ali Abdullah Saleh had committed more crimes in his three decades in power against the Yemeni people than the abuses witnessed under the British military occupation in South Yemen. The attack came amidst news that [...]

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UK's Alistair Burt

UK’s Alistair Burt comments on Yemen

18 May 2012 | Comments (0)

SANA’A: In a recent statement to the press, Alistair Burt, the UK Foreign Office Minister for the Middle East, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, expressed his views on Yemen saying that it was now time for foreign nations to truly grasp the danger posed by the country’s crippling humanitarian crisis. “Sir, Collette Fearon is right to [...]

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Pakistan’s Zardari’s donations to saints, kings, pinched from public monies

Pakistan’s Zardari’s donations to saints, kings, pinched from public monies

18 May 2012 | Comments (0)

NEW DELHI: Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari personal offerings to the tombs of a dead Indian saint and an exiled Indian emperor have been officially ‘pinched’ from public funds from the Pakistan government treasury. A Pakistan government spokesperson has said the $1 million donation to one of India’s most famous sufi shrines, that of Khwaja [...]

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Yemeni Shia and Sunni factions discuss future in Cairo

Yemeni Shia and Sunni factions discuss future in Cairo

18 May 2012 | Comments (0)

Under the auspices of the Crisis Management Initiative (CMI), leaders from the Shiite Houthi Movement and the Islamist Islah Party held talks in Cairo over the past couple of days. Al-Masdar online newspaper reported on Wednesday citing what it has called a familiar source with the matter that high-ranking leading figures from both parties met [...]

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Cancer patients in hospital.

Yemen cancer patient dies after visiting Sheikh Zindani’s clinic

17 May 2012 | Comments (0)

SANA’A: A young 23-year-old woman from Sana’a was buried last week by her family after her cancer spread to her brain and other organs. Fatma, whose life was cut short by cancer was diagnosed 8 months ago with a stage 2 breast cancer, which doctors said they could treat through surgery and an aggressive round [...]

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The legend of Sheba lives on in Yemen.

Legends of Queen Sheba

17 May 2012 | Comments (0)

SANA’A: Although much has been written on legendary Queen Sheba, Yemen’s most prominent figure in history, little is actually known of this mysterious monarch, which the legend has it met with prophet Suleiman, a pivotal religious figure in all three monotheist religions. Legends of the Queen of Sheba are common throughout Arabia, Persia, Ethiopia, Israel [...]

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Yemen needs economic integration

Yemen needs economic integration

17 May 2012 | Comments (0)

SANA’A: Yemen’s Minister of Trade and Industry asserted that the technical barriers are of the effects that hinder the country’s attitudes towards economic integration and to enhance procession of Arab Customs Union, delaying its joining World Trade Organization as a result of conflicts among the members countries in means, ways and procedures of verification of [...]

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Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Yemen

Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Yemen

17 May 2012 | Comments (0)

SANA’A: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned Yemen’s government and more specifically the Press and Publication court for continuing its “charade” of justice against two al-Jazeera journalists who were arrested last year while covering the uprising. In a written statement, the CPJ also demanded the Cabinet not to revive a restrictive Audio-Visual and Electronic [...]

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Soldiers marching in Yemen.

Al-Qaeda is losing ground

17 May 2012 | Comments (0)

SANA’A: Military sources based in the southern province of Abyan told Bikyamasr.com that the armed forces backed by local tribesmen and United States warplanes were making “real progress” against al-Qaeda militants. After four days of an intense multi-front battle, with American and Yemeni warplanes pounding the Islamists from the air, foreign warships situated off the [...]

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UAE inflation edges up to a 9-month high

UAE inflation edges up to a 9-month high

16 May 2012 | Comments (0)

CAIRO: Data coming from the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday has posted inflation to its highest rate in 9 months on an annual basis in April, despite an ongoing price decline in its trade and business hub Dubai. Annual consumer price growth in the $360 billion economy, the second largest among Arab countries, picked up [...]

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Red Cross says thousands displaced in South Sudan

Red Cross says thousands displaced in South Sudan

16 May 2012 | Comments (0)

The International Red Cross (ICHR) has said that thousands of people in South Sudan have been displaced as a result of the ongoing violence between the country and its northern neighbor Sudan. Since the beginning of the year, the ICRC has stepped up its efforts to respond to mounting humanitarian needs in South Sudan. In [...]

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President Obama gets tough on Yemen

President Obama gets tough on Yemen

16 May 2012 | Comments (0)

SANA’A: As announced by the Washington Post, this Wednesday American President Barak Obama is to sign an executive order, which would give the Treasury Department the ability to freeze the assets of whoever, American or foreign, would impede Yemen’s transition process or help another party hinder its progress. The move came after several Yemeni officials [...]

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Egyptians and Saudis can unite to promote justice

Egyptians and Saudis can unite to promote justice

16 May 2012 | Comments (0)

Cairo – Saudi Arabia has announced it will re-open its embassy in Egypt, after closing it in late April due to massive protests. The conflict began when Ahmed al-Gizawi, an Egyptian human rights lawyer, was arrested in April by Saudi security forces upon arriving in the country to take part in the umrah, an Islamic [...]

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Just Big Like Facebook campaign in support of Palestinian prisoners.

64 years later, peaceful resistance triumphs from the heart of Israeli jails

16 May 2012 | Comments (0)

On the 64th anniversary of Al Nakba, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) hails the courage and resilience of thousands of Palestinian prisoners as they continue to peacefully struggle for their basic rights and freedoms. We positively note that an agreement was reached between representatives of around 2,000 Palestinian hunger strikers inside Israeli [...]

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Tribal tensions in the Yemeni capital

Tribal tensions in the Yemeni capital

16 May 2012 | Comments (0)

SANA’A: As the Yemen government is waging war against al-Qaeda in its southern province in a bid to rid Yemen of all Islamic militants and regain control over all its territories, the tribes are still engaged in a pro-anti former regime argument with loyalists to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh returning to the streets of [...]

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Makwan Mouladzadeh was one of the Iranian victims.

Four “sodomy” sentences in Iran: On not learning from our mistakes

16 May 2012 | Comments (0)

Iranian authorities killed Makwan Mouloudzadeh on December 5, 2007.  Six months earlier, a court had convicted Mouloudzadeh —  a youth of Kurdish descent from near Kermanshah — of raping others three boys when he was 13.  However, his accusers retracted their claims; no evidence against him remained. In November, Iran’s chief justice had overturned the death [...]

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Iran TV station al-Alam sees Egypt bureau closed by gov’t

Iran TV station al-Alam sees Egypt bureau closed by gov’t

16 May 2012 | Comments (0)

CAIRO: Reporters Without Borders condemns the raid carried out by the Egyptian police two days ago on the Iranian Arabic-language satellite TV station Al-Alam. “The Egyptian authorities seized the station’s equipment and issued a warrant for the arrest of the bureau’s director, Ahmed Sioufi, on the grounds that Al-Alam did not have the necessary operating [...]

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Yemeni soldiers aims his weapon.

Yemen army advances on al-Qaeda

16 May 2012 | Comments (0)

SANA’A: According to official reports from Yemen’s defense ministry, the country’s armed forces are making decisive advances against al-Qaeda in the southern province of Abyan, having managed to regain strategic positions. Mount Yasouf near Lawder was retaken from the Islamists earlier today by the People’s Committee, a group of local tribal fighters in league with [...]

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Protesters in Cairo commemorate Palestinian Nakba at Arab League. - photo by Amanda Mustard for Bikyamasr.com

Low turn out at Palestinian Nakba commemoration in Cairo

16 May 2012 | Comments (0)

CAIRO: Dozens of Egyptians and Palestinians assembled in front of the Arab League headquarters on Tuesday to mark the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian “catastrophe” that followed Israel’s establishment. The commemoration took place amidst an alleged “victorious achievement” of 2000 Palestinian prisoners who ended a 77-day hunger strike after their demands were met to ease [...]

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