Tag: neighbor

Foreign Minister Mohamed Amr announced a free-travel zone between Egypt, Libya and Tunisia

‘Cairo Declaration’ to create free-travel zone

The deal allows free-travel between the first three North African states to…

Hend Kortam July 30, 2012

A handout picture released by Bahrain’s main opposition Al-Wefaq group shows protesters engulfed in tear gas fired by police during a demonstration in a Shia village close to Manama (file photo: AFP/Ho/Al-Wefaq Media Centre)

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Bahrain interior minister orders investigation into violations

Sheikh Rashed Ibn Abdullah Al-Khalifa has ordered an investigation into violations of…

Rana Muhammad Taha July 29, 2012

People carry the body of a six-year-old Bilal El-Lababidi during his funeral in the Jordanian town of Ramtha. The boy was allegedly shot dead by the Syrian army as he, his parents, and a dozen other refugees tried to cross the Syrian-Jordanian border to seek refuge in Jordan (photo: AFP/stringer)

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Syrian refugees making a deadly crossing to Jordan

Jordan is making preparations for an historic refugee exodus

Hend Kortam July 30, 2012