Foreign Ministers of the European Union (EU) will meet on Wednesday in Brussels for a Council meeting to decide on possible responses to Egypt violence, including review of the EU-Egypt ties.
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Egyptian FM meets with EU envoy
Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy met with a European Union (EU) envoy headed by EU Ambassador James Moran, in Cairo on Tuesday to discuss the future of EU-Egypt relations.
Read More »Egypt court to review case against ElBaradei
The Nasr City misdemeanour court has decided that on 19 September it will consider the case filed against former vice president for international relations Mohamed ElBaradei, who resigned on Wednesday following a crackdown by security forces to disperse two protest camps by pro-Morsi supporters.
Read More »Deadly clashes on Algeria-Mali border
Algiers: Deadly clashes between Arabs and Tawareq raged on into a second week in an Algerian border town on Tuesday, with another eight people killed.
Read More »Turkey to keep defense agreements with Egypt
Turkish National Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz received his Brazilian counterpart Celso Amorim on Tuesday and said Turkey has not planned to cancel defense and military agreements with Egypt but there is also no new plan for military cooperation with Egypt.
Read More »Over 30,000 Kurds in Syria flee to Iraq
Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds swarmed across a bridge into neighboring Iraq’s northern self-ruled Kurdish region over the past few days in one of the biggest waves of refugees since the rebellion against President Bashar Assad began, U.N. officials said Monday.
Read More »Musharraf denies charges in court
Former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf and six figures have been indicted in the case of former premier Benazir Bhutto’s assassination where Musharraf denied the charges against him.
Read More »Pakistani PM pushes for end of violence
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has made his first televised address to the nation since taking office after winning elections in May. He called for dialogue with extremists to put an end to violence that has left thousands of people dead in the country over the past several years. But …
Read More »Georgia to discuss NATO and EU integration with Sweden
The issue of Georgia’s integration into the EU and NATO was discussed by Georgia’s Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze during a meeting with the Director
Read More »Egypt arrested the Muslim Brotherhood leader after death toll reaches 900
Egypt’s army-backed government detained the Muslim Brotherhood’s leader on Tuesday after a bloody crackdown on his supporters, underscoring its intention to crush the movement that had propelled the country’s first freely elected president to power.
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