Proceedings opened on Thursday (11 January) at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, where Israel faces accusations from South Africa that it is subjecting Palestinians in Gaza to “genocidal acts”. South Africa accuses Israel of violating the United Nations’s 1948 Genocide Convention, established in the wake of the Holocaust, an accusation that […]
Egyptian authorities are negotiating with Russian Company Rosatom for the construction of a nuclear power plant to enable the most populous country in the Arab world meet its growing energy demands. Talks are believed to be at their final stages and a deal is expected to be sealed by the end of 2015, according to […]
Tunisian security forces, the National Guard, arrested Saturday a takfirist and alleged member of a terrorist group, wanted for terrorism, reports say. The arrest took place in the city of Bizerte, capital of Bizerte governorate, the hometown of the alleged terrorist. The ministry of justice ordered his detention and sentenced him to six years in […]
