Year: 2012

A damaged vehicle is towed away following a car bomb near Firdos Square in Baghdad on November 14 (AFP, Sabah Arar)
PoliticsRegion

Iraq bombings kill 19 on eve of Muslim new year

No group claimed responsibility for the violence

Daily News Egypt Daily News Egypt
Non-Islamists are threatening to withdraw from the assembly tasked with drafting the new constitution
EgyptPolitics

Non-Islamists suspend Constituent Assembly membership

Over 20 members to withdraw if demands unmet

Ahmed Aboulenein Ahmed Aboulenein
The verdict session for the trial of Saber will be on 28 November Hassan Ibrahim / DNE
EgyptPolitics

Saber verdict due on 28 November

Defence lawyers argue prosecution evidence is faulty

Ahmed Aboulenein Ahmed Aboulenein
PoliticsRegion

Egypt demands halt to Israeli attacks on Palestinians

Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr "condemned air strikes Israel is conducting in…

Daily News Egypt Daily News Egypt
Bishop Tawadros confers with members of the Coptic Church at Saint Bishoy Monastery Hassan Ibrahim
In Focus

Papal enthronement

Pope Tawadros II: Background and biography

Basil El-Dabh Basil El-Dabh
Worshippers present Bishop Tawadros with a new banner celebrating his ascension to the papacy Hassan Ibrahim
Interviews

Pope Tawadros II: If they implement Shari’a, we have many responses and ideas

Pope Tawadros II speaks to the Daily News Egypt

Ethar Shalaby Ethar Shalaby
Trials of media figues continue (file photo) Mohamed Omar / DNE
EgyptPolitics

Media controversy continues

Another TV anchor investigated, accused of “contempt of religion”

Fady Salah Fady Salah
Protesters attempted to block the Al-Arish/Rafah Road when they were surrounded by security forces attempting to protect the entrances and exits to the governor’s office. (file photo) AFP Photo
EgyptPolitics

No evidence that rocket attack on Israel came from Sinai

May have been fired from Gaza

Luiz Sanchez Luiz Sanchez
Under former President Hosni Mubarak and the intermediate period of military rule following the revolution, human rights groups were often sidelined from important political and social decision making.(file photo) AFP PHOTO
EgyptPolitics

Human rights NGOs barred and boycotted EU discussions

Ministry of Foreign Affairs blamed for intervening

Luiz Sanchez Luiz Sanchez
Palestinians extinguish fire from the car of Ahmaed Jaabari, head of the military wing of the Hamas movement, the Ezzedin Qassam Brigades, after it was hit by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City (Photo by AFP / Mahmud Hams)
Region

Top Hamas commander allegedly killed in Israel strike

Israel armed forces target Hamas military commander Ahmed Al-Jaabari in Gaza

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