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Pope Benedict XVI greeting Muslim clerics during his visit with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman at the Baabda presidential palace AFP PHOTO / OSSERVATORE ROMANO
coexistence

Catholic Pope brings message of coexistence to Lebanon visit

Roman pontiff says he comes as “pilgrim of peace”

Basil El-Dabh
Basil El-Dabh
Lakhdar Brahimi Khaled Desouki / AFP Photo
Al-assad

Brahimi meets Al-Assad

Peace envoy’s meeting with Syrian president leaves behind warnings of a “crisis

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
Lakhdar Brahimi Khaled Desouki / AFP Photo
Bashar

Brahimi arrives in Syria

Envoy for Syria meets foreign minister

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha

Gaza tunnels not crippled in Egypt crackdown

Gaza tunnels not crippled in Egypt crackdown

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
embassy

Protester shot dead as mob storms US embassy in Yemen

Protester shot dead as mob storms US embassy in Yemen

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
Emirati police during a security operation (photo: AFP/Marwan Naamani )
Arabic Network for Human Rights Information

Crackdown on UAE reformists continues

Over 60 now detained in government crackdown

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
Yemeni Protestor chant slogans during a demonstration against terrorism and assassinations in the capital Sanaa AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED HUWAIS
appoint

Yemeni security reshuffle

President sacks security officials loyal to ousted Saleh

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
Tunisian journalists of Assabah daily hold signs calling for freedom of the press during a protest in Tunis on 11 September AFP PHOTO / KHALIL
Annahda

Tunisian journalists protest government appointed directors

“We don’t want police mentality in our newspaper”

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
Syrian civilians who entered Turkey illegally are prevented to move further and asked to return back to Syria by Turkish border patrol on the Syrian-Turkish border on 11 September AFP PHOTO / ACHILLEAS ZAVALLIS
Arab League

Turkey to relocate Syrian refugees

Turkish-based NGO believes number of Syrian refugees in Turkey could reach 300,000…

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
Supporters of the Syrian women’s hunger strike outside the Arab League in central Cairo hold candles for those who have died in Syria Rachel Adams
activist

International inaction provokes Syrian women to hunger strike

Female activists tell Daily News Egypt why they are hunger striking

Sarah El Masry
Sarah El Masry