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Egyptian forensic department chief Tuesday denied claims that an explosion brought down the EgyptAir plane which crashed last Thursday in the Mediterranean. “Everything published about this matter is completely false, and mere assumptions that did not come from the forensics authority,” Hesham Abdelhamid was quoted as saying. Abdelhamid debunked a report by one Egyptian official […]
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 Algerian President has launched a lawsuit against French Paper le Monde for having published in April on its front page a picture of the Algerian President at the side of world leaders cited in the Panama Paper leaks. President Bouteflika’s lawyers have reportedly demanded €10,000 for compensation for moral prejudice suffered by the Algerian […]
Increasing number of voices, including families of Paris attacks victims, have expressed their discontent over the payment by the State of a lawyer to assist Salah Abdeslam in the process of investigations. The suspect number one in the attacks is now in custody in France. Elisabeth Boissinot, mother of a 25-year-old young woman killed in […]
Egyptian security forces have launched multiple assaults on activists who have called for anti-government protest on Monday to chide regime for surrendering the two “Egyptian” Red Sea Islands to Saudi Arabia. Dozens of activists including members of 6 April movement, the youth movement that led the anti-Mubarak protest, have been arrested at their homes, in […]
Morocco has called on the international community to pool efforts to implement all the provisions of the Paris Agreement on climate change and expressed hope for increased global awareness as to the need to combat the phenomenon. The call was launched by King Mohammed VI in a speech delivered at the signing ceremony of the […]
Spanish security forces early Tuesday arrested a Moroccan man on the island of Mollora. The man is accused of having links with terrorist organizations. Spanish authorities did not disclose the name of the suspect accused of coordinating possible terror attacks in Spain and across Europe. A statement by the Interior Ministry also accused the man […]
Two EU drivers have been reportedly fired after IS propaganda CDs were allegedly found with them. The discovery prompted the EU to take a recent resolution to create its own team of drivers, reports say. German newspapers “Der Spiegel” relayed by French “l’Express” reported over the week-end that IS propaganda CDs were found with two […]
The two companies mentioned in the leaked Panama papers that were set up by Mounir Majidi, the private secretary of King Mohammed VI, are legally flawless and operated in total transparency. The statement was made by Moroccan attorney Hicham Naciri, known as the Royal Palace lawyer, following the publication by some media of the name […]
Relations between Algiers and Paris are seemingly turning sour few days after France’s top diplomat, Jean-Marc Ayrault was in Algiers to prepare the Algeria-France summit and two days before an official visit by French Premier Manuel Valls. On Wednesday, Algeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs summoned French ambassador to Algiers to complain about French media “hostile […]