The Local Germany reports that the German government has called on Egypt to help find a German journalist who has disappeared – feared kidnapped – in Cairo after receiving death threats from Islamic extremists. Hamed Abdel-Samad’s brother told Egyptian news site youm7 he feared the writer had been kidnapped after he disappeared from near the Al-Azhar park in Cairo on Sunday afternoon. The German Foreign Ministry has set up a crisis team to try to find Abdel-Samed, who writes for politics magazine Cicero and wrote a book in 2009 about Islam called Mein Abschied vom Himmel (My Farewell from Heaven). Read article
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Usatoday.com reported that, tens of thousands of demonstrators packed the streets Monday outside the former U.S. embassy in Tehran in the biggest anti-American rally in years, a show of support for hard-line opponents of President Hassan Rouhani’s historic outreach to Washington. Read Article
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According to Al Jazeera, a senior Dutch diplomat was attacked by unknown assailants in Moscow, Russian news agencies have reported, a week after President Vladimir Putin demanded an apology for a Russian diplomat’s alleged beating in the Netherlands. Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans confirmed the attack, that happened late on Tuesday, on his Facebook page […]
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The BBC reports that police in Russia have arrested more than 1,200 people in a raid targeting migrants after major riots in Moscow. The “preventative raid” targeted workers at a vegetable warehouse, which was attacked by demonstrators on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported. Angry protesters overran the market searching for migrant workers. The rioting began […]
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As reported by Thehindu.com, an explosion in a bus carrying employees of the state secretariat of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) government on Friday afternoon killed at least 19 of them and injured 45, according to Shiraz Paracha, spokesperson for the KPK Chief Minister. Read article
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Abna.co reports that Tuesday evening Palestinian medical sources in Jerusalem have reported dozens of residents suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, and at least two have been kidnapped following clashes with the Israeli army and police in occupied East Jerusalem. The clashes took place as hundreds of Palestinians marched to protest a procession by extremist […]
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As reported by Nytimes.com, an Italian journalist and a Belgian scholar, both kidnapped in Syria in early April, have been released and are on a plane flying to Italy, the Italian government said Sunday. Read Article
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Presstv.ir reported that, at least four people have been killed and six others injured after a car bomb attack rocked the western area of the Syrian capital, Damascus, local media report. The blast took place on Thursday near a research and testing center affiliated with the Syrian Ministry of Industry in Damascus’s Sumaria neighborhood, the […]
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According to an Al Jazeera report, Suez Canal authorities have said that a “terrorist” staged an unsuccessful attack on a container ship passing through the canal. The attack was said to be an attempt to disrupt the flow of ships through the waterway. The Suez Canal is a key global shipping lane, and secured by […]
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According to stuff.co.nz, a New Zealand journalist is being held by Egyptian authorities – the latest arrest in what organisations are calling a “growing hostility” towards reporters. Former TVNZ reporter Wayne Hay, who has been reporting for Al Jazeera since 2006, has been in Egypt for less than a year. He was one of four […]
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