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A delegation of the Ennahda movement led by its leader, Rachid Ghannouchi, is currently visiting France for meetings with several key political figures. Ghannouchi was quick to outline that the Ennahda delegation was not visiting France on behalf of the government. The visit is part of the party’s “people’s diplomacy” geared towards building strong diplomatic […]
French and world cement giant Lafarge paid the Islamic State group (IS) in Syria to maintain its business, French daily Le Monde revealed on Tuesday. Investigations conducted by the French daily indicate that the French company which acquired the Jalabiya cement works, located at some 150 Km northeast of Aleppo, in 2007 entered into a […]
Tunisian authorities Monday extended for one month the state of emergency in place since last November attacks. President Caid Essebsi’s office made the announcement saying the decision was taken in consultation with the government and the parliament. This is the fourth time the state of emergency is being prolonged. In the wake of November attacks […]
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the murder of a police commander and his wife at Magnanville in the Ile-de-France region, on Monday night, reports say. A police commander aged 42 was stabbed to death in front of his house around 9pm local time by a man who reportedly pledged allegiance to the […]
Moroccan security and counterterrorism agents are helping once again French authorities to counter terror threats as the country is hosting Euro 2016, according to press reports. Following the breakthrough made by the Moroccan intelligence services which helped French police pinpoint the hideout of the terrorists responsible for the Paris deadly attacks of last November, France […]
Spanish Foreign Affairs minister José Manuel García has hailed the cooperation ties existing between security services of Morocco, Spain and France, saying this triangular cooperation is currently unmatched, the best-ever and the closest in history. Spain cooperates in this field with its neighboring countries, added the top Spanish diplomat, noting that his country is part […]
More than 25 foreign ministers mostly from Western and Arab countries are meeting in Paris to revive talks to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the absence of the two conflicting parties. Netanyahu has been against the French approach and he stated ahead of the Paris conference that “the path to peace does not pass though […]
South Korea’s Ban Ki-moon, the outgoing Secretary General of the United Nations, has been described by the Economist as “the dullest—and among the worst” UN chiefs that preceded him. In a recent story on the job of UN Secretary General, described as “something of a poisoned chalice” and on the candidates to the UN helm, […]
Egyptian national forces and coastguards assisted by Greek forces have been mobilized on the Mediterranean to look for the missing EgyptAir flight MS804, which disappeared from radar between Paris and Cairo. The plane Airbus A320 is believed to have crashed into the Mediterranean at 2:30 am local time, around 280km north of the Egyptian coast. […]
The Egyptian President Tuesday offered Egypt’s help to cement ranks between Palestinian rivals and called on Palestinians and Israelis to seize the “golden” opportunity of peace making proposed by France. “I say to our Palestinian brothers, you must unite the different factions in order to achieve reconciliation the soonest,” President al-Sis said in a televised […]