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Lakhdar Brahimi Khaled Desouki / AFP Photo
Bashar

Brahimi arrives in Syria

Envoy for Syria meets foreign minister

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha

Pakistan files murder case over factory fire

Pakistan files murder case over factory fire

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt

Gaza tunnels not crippled in Egypt crackdown

Gaza tunnels not crippled in Egypt crackdown

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
US Embassy clashes
anti-islam film

In Pictures: Security forces and protesters clash – US embassy

Violent clashes broke between Central Security Forces (CSF) protecting the United States…

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
Ahmed nazif

Nazif gets three years in prison

Nazif receives a three year sentence for illegal money making

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam
Cambodia

Cambodia genocide suspect unfit for trial

The decision to release the First Lady of the Khmer Rouge, Ieng…

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez
Egypt

Hassan Abdel Rahman released

Former state security chief gets released pending trial

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
Workers begin to clear the rubble from the collapsed apartment building in the Shubra district of Cairo Mohamed Omar
building

Building collapses in Shobra, kills eight

Eight dead, eleven injured during the four-floor building collapse

Fady Salah
Fady Salah
United States President Barack Obama signs the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act in the White House in Washington, DC (photo: AFP /Mandel Ngan)
Conflict

Obama and Netanyahu apparently still friends

Obama’s refusal to meet Netanyahu denied after media circulated split over Iran

Nouran El-Behairy
Nouran El-Behairy