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Libya has released 130  
political prisoners, including 85 members of the outlawed Muslim
Brotherhood, from a Tripoli prison, reports say.
        The Brotherhood detainees were freed under an amnesty from  
the government, the BBC said.
        Human rights groups had been calling for ..

Brotherhood’s MP Proposes Bill Incriminates Insulting Prophets, Religions
On its coming session, the parliament will consider a motion proposed by the Muslim Brotherhood’s MP Akram el-Share to add a new article to the Panel Law that incriminates any defamatory act of religions and prophets, peace be upon them. The criminal courts will be competent to consider the crime even committed outside..

The case for democracy is "self-evident," as someone once put it. The case for the world’s most powerful democracy to take as its mission the spreading of democracy around the world is pretty self-evident, too: What’s good for us is good for others. Those others will be grateful. A world full of democracies created or protected with our help ought to be more peaceful and prosperous and favorabl..

The Libyan government’s pardoning today of 132 political prisoners is a hopeful sign of reform, Human Rights Watch said. Most of them had spent more than seven years in detention, imprisoned for nonviolent activities after unfair trials.

The authorities released the men from Tripoli’s Abu Salim prison this morning – on a national holiday called “The Day of People’s Autho..

A delegation of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, will head to Russia Friday. Khaled Meshal, Hamas Political Bureau Chief, Mussa Abu Marzoq, Muhammad Nazal, Ezat el-Rashq, Samy Khater, and Said Siam are expected to form the delegation. 
 
The visit comes as part of Hamas swift tour to some countries to spell out its plans for the coming period and to c..

Israeli occupation forces are arresting scores of Palestinian children each week, bringing the number of juveniles currently held in appalling conditions in Israeli detention centres and prisons to new record levels.

Information gathered by the DCI/PS Research & Information and Legal Units shows that since the start of 2006 over 230 Palestinian children have been arrested, with the..

Egypt police detain leading Brotherhood member
Egyptian police detained a leading member of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood and six other members in Cairo on Friday, Brotherhood officials said.

 Egyptian security forces on Friday arrested seven student activists from the banned Muslim Brotherhood, an official for the group said.

Abdul Munem Mahmoud, the Muslim Brotherhood official, said seven members of the group, all university organizers, were arrested during a raid on their Cairo apartment.

"Security men broke into the apartment and arrested the young men and t..

WE HAVE basically a three-year window of opportunity before the Islamic republic acquires the nuclear bomb," Reza Pahlavi, the son and heir of the late shah of Iran told me last Wednesday in Washington. But at the same time, he cautioned that using military action against Iran would be counter-productive and would most likely backfire.

The young Pahlavi, who lives in the Washington ..

Fear in the U.S. of Russian nukes made strange bedfellows during the Cold War, like our relationship with the shah of Iran, Franco, Somoza, and Pinochet. The logic was that such strongmen, unlike Communist thugs, would evolve eventually into constitutional governments, or, unlike elected socialists, they could at least be trusted not to turn their countries into satellites of the Soviet Union.<..

When I returned to Europe five years ago, the biggest story was simple: economics.

In a world of fierce economic competition, Europe was losing ground. Jobs were disappearing but new corporate titans weren’t springing up to create wealth. Asia’s rise threatened to eclipse Europe, turning it into a cuddly and comfy declining power.

Since then, however, it’s clear that Europe has ..

With an unprecedented number of seats in the People’s Assembly, the Muslim Brotherhood is trying to show new maturity by endorsing the broad framework of the Nazif government’s economic reform program. But while a handful of its leading members have recently remade themselves as advocates of privatization and small enterprises, market watchers will have to wait a bit longer for a full explanati..