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

Tunisian journalists protest government appointed directors

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

September 12, 2012

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

Turkey to relocate Syrian refugees

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

September 12, 2012

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

International inaction provokes Syrian women to hunger strike

Female activists tell Daily News Egypt why they are hunger striking

September 12, 2012

Turkish national Aydin Tufan Tekin phones after being handed to the Turkish Ambassador to Lebanon at the Lebanese General Security headquarters in Beirut on 11 September AFP PHOTO / ANWAR AMRO

Turkish and Syrian hostages in Lebanon finally freed

Syrian hostages rescued in midnight raid in Lebanon while Turkish businessman's release…

Daily News Egypt

September 12, 2012

Protesters gather outside the Lebanese embassy in Cairo to demand the release of Egyptian doctor Mohamed Al-Hamshari Basil El-Dabh / DNE

Egyptian doctor released from Lebanese custody

Al-Hamshari arrived back to Cairo on Wednesday night

September 12, 2012

A fighter with the Free Syria Army fires his weapon during a skirmish with regime forces in the Izza districtb of Aleppo on Tuesday. Syrian troops and rebels clashed near Aleppo's international airport on Wednesday, a watchdog said, but it was unclear whether it was part of a rebel offensive to seize the facility AFP Photo

Syria army, rebels clash near Aleppo airport

"The humanitarian problem sparked by the conflict is our biggest crisis", says…

Daily News Egypt

September 12, 2012

Abdullah II, King of Jordan AFP Photo

King Abdullah II: Israel disrupting nuclear plans

Israeli official dismissed the charges by the King of Jordan

Daily News Egypt

September 12, 2012

Palestinian protesters throw stones at police attempting to control the streets surrounding the municipality in the southern city of Hebron on 10 September after demonstrators hurled stones at the building AFP PHOTO / HAZEM BADER

Protests and strikes against recession in Palestine

PM promises to reduce prices by cutting salaries of ministers and officials

Nouran El-Behairy

September 11, 2012

Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki (photo: AFP)

Tunisians protest torture after man dies in police station

Ennahda party criticised for failing to fulfill torture abolition promises

Nouran El-Behairy

September 11, 2012

Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry announced the execution of four men and the whipping of another seven (File photo) AFP PHOTO / HASSAN AMMAR

Saudi Arabia beheads four, whips many more

Four people have been beheaded in Saudi Arabia for breaching Saudi Islamic…

September 11, 2012