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130,000 worshipers attend Friday prayers at Aqsa

More than 130 thousand worshipers from Jerusalem, 1948 occupied Palestine and elderly people from the West Bank attended the Friday prayers at the Aqsa Mosque on the first Friday of the blessed month of Ramadan, according to a statement issued by the Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage...

Pakistan State Oil grants contract to Israeli firm

The Pakistan State Oil, a government-run oil company, has awarded a contact to an Israeli-based firm, Turpak-Orpak, despite the government’s ban on any kind of trade or agreement with an Israeli entity...

Germany releases suspect in Mabhouh slaying on bail

German prosecutors Friday let out on bail Mossad agent Uri Brodsky, a suspect in the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai eight months ago...

Iraq’s Shi’a Leadership Crisis & the Iranian End Game

Iraq’s “Shi’a House” (Al-Bayt Al-Shi’i) is in a state of political turmoil. After enduring 1300 years of subjugation before their ascent to power in 2005, Iraq’s Shi’a are on the brink of losing their governing majority...

MB leader Ali Abdul Fattah and five others released

State Security in Alexandria released six Muslim Brotherhood members including MB leader Ali Abdul Fattah after a second release order was issued. The group was apprehended early last week after they participated in collecting signatures on the petitioned demand calling for change...

Egypt: Former minister supports opposition demands for reform

Former Information Minister, Dr. Kamal Abul Magd, expressed his support for constitutional amendments particularly article 76, which restrict the rights to run for presidency..

Taking on Mubarak

Mohamed ElBaradei has lit a fire under President Hosni Mubarak’s stagnant rubber-stamp government..

MB MP accuses government of " bullying" al-Azhar

Ali Laban, from the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc, called for an end to the political dictatorship where the Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif and Minister of al-Azhar Affairs have contemplated the abolishing of al-Azhar which has been an Islamic reference worldwide for over a thousand years...

MB online petition for reform exceeds half a million

The Muslim Brotherhood's online petition has collected over 500, 000 signatures 35 days into its launching...

Warming up exercises

The countdown to the legislative elections scheduled for November has started, with the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) and the opposition, both secular and Islamist, already in rehearsal for the day when close to 30 million eligible voters cast their ballots to select their representatives in the country's new parliament...

'No elections without guarantees'

The Coalition of Egyptian Opposition Parties (CEOP), which includes the official opposition parties of the Wafd, Tagammu, the Nasserists and Democratic Front, held a one-day conference on 8 August calling upon President Hosni Mubarak to respond to calls aimed at amending the 1956 law regarding exercising political rights...

Dr. ElBaradei to CNN: I am no new Pharaoh

CNN program "African voices" recently interviewed former IAEA chief Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei who had recently emerged onto Egypt 's political arena much to the distaste of the ruling regime..

Egypt's Security Forces investigate NDP members

"State Security forces in Kafr El-Sheikh summoned dozens of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party's (NDP) members who planned to run in the upcoming parliamentary elections on the party's official list...

Alexandria: Reform posters destroyed by “akhbar alyawm” vehicles

State security in Alexandria ordered posters and banners hung by members of the Muslim Brotherhood to be destroyed in a vicious act of vendetta...

Student from Gaza tells story of his torture by Egyptian officers

A Palestinian young man who used the name Talal as his pseudonym revealed shocking details of his detention in Egyptian jails and his exposure to severe torture at the hands of officers in order to extract information from him he actually knows nothing about...

Ashkenazi takes full responsibility for May flotilla massacre

Israeli military chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi during the publicized Turkel investigation into the deadly attack on the Freedom Flotilla said he is fully responsible for all operations carried out by the Israeli army, a stand opposite of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and war minister Ehud Barak, who dumped responsibility on officers and army leaders...

30 Italian organizations join Freedom Flotilla 2

The humanitarian Freedom Flotilla 2 aid convoy, which is expected to be launched before end of year in an effort to break the four-year long siege on the Gaza Strip, has now been joined by more than 30 civil institutions from Italy...

Egyptian minister calls on Muslims worldwide to visit Jerusalem

Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq the Egyptian Minister of Religious Endowments has urged Muslims worldwide to visit Jerusalem and affirm its Islamic identity...

Court in Alexandria supports release of MB leader Ali Abdel-Fattah

The Misdemeanor Appeal Court in Alexandria upheld a court decision to release Muslim Brotherhood leader Ali Abdel-Fattah and 5 of the Muslim Brotherhood after they were arrested from their homes last week...

MB reform demand petition gathers 556, 000 signatures 34 days into campaign

The Muslim Brotherhood's online campaign launched by Chairman Dr. Mohamed Badie to gather signatures in support of the National Association for Change's "Seven Demands for Reform" charter has proved to be progressing well even during the rush of the holy month of Ramadan...