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Terrorists Sunday traded shoots with Tunisian border guards stationed at Bouchebka, near the Algerian border, killing one guard and wounding three others. “A border guard was killed and three others were wounded in a shootout with a terrorist group in Bouchebka,” the state television Wataniya 1 confirmed. President of the guards’ Union Ridha Ennasri also […]
Algerian oil minister sent a letter to OPEP Friday, calling for an emergency meeting to discuss continuing falling oil prices and adjust production policies. The letter of the oil minister Salah Khebri was revealed by the US newspaper The Wall Street Journalist. According to the paper, Khebri deplored the continuing collapse of oil prices and […]
Turkish President Erdoğan surprised Turkish politicians Friday when he called Turkish to early elections on November 01 after the interim Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and the head of the AKP party failed to form a coalition. “The date announced [for an early general election] at the moment is Nov. 1. Turkey will, God willing, go […]
Perched at the western extremity of the Arab world, with only few miles of sea separating one of its edges from Europe, Morocco stands out as a major and staunch ally of the United States and Europe in the global war against terror. The country, which is becoming a magnet for foreign tourists, enjoys the […]
Egyptian President al-Sissi is due to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow next week to bolster cooperation between the two countries, Egyptian official sources indicated Thursday. This will be al-Sissi’s third trip since his election as president in June 2014. He first visited Russia in August last year, and returned to Moscow last […]
The first Economic Forum of Tunisian Expatriates organized by the Office of Tunisians Abroad (OTE) opened in Tunis on Thursday with the hope of promoting networking among Tunisians living abroad and encouraging investment in the country. Speaking at the opening ceremony, the Secretary of State in charge of Immigration and Social Integration Belgacem Sabri said […]
Morocco’s King Mohammed gave a good lesson in civics in a speech he delivered on Thursday on the occasion of the 62nd anniversary of the Revolution of the King and the People, a milestone in the fight against French colonization that speeded up the independence of the North African country. From the onset, the King […]
Days after an Israeli official in the Prime Minister’s office denied ongoing meetings with Hamas, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas stated that Israeli and Hamas authorities have been engaged in talks for the past 8 months and are holding direct talks on a long term ceasefire agreement “in an African country.” Israelis and Hamas are meeting […]
The harsh criticism that met the Egyptian newly-ratified anti-terror law has been described as “a lack of accurate analysis” by foreign ministry spokesman Ahmed Abou Zeid on Wednesday. He claimed that the law was tailored according to the Egyptian reality but revealed that the law drew inspiration from the U.S Patriot Act and the British […]
Tunisia’s Transport ministry announced earlier this week it is allowing resumption of commercial flights from disintegrated Libya after it suspended all flights on security grounds. Tunisian authorities suspended flights form Miitiga airport, near Tripoli and Misrata, in the east of Tripoli last August because of security reasons. The Tunisian ministry of transport indicated in a […]