Author: Fri, 2021-01-08 23:16 ANKARA: The controversial indictment of 108 people, including Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, former co-chairs of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), over their involvement in the 2014 street protests was approved on Tuesday by Ankara … read more
Fri, 2021-01-08 23:55 CAIRO: When Jill Barton and her husband first came to Cairo seven years ago to volunteer at a horse and donkey sanctuary, they had little inkling they would end up moving to Egypt permanently to care for … read more
Thu, 2021-01-07 23:30 ADEN: A loud explosion was heard in the Yemeni city of Aden on Thursday evening, residents and a security source told Reuters. The explosion took place just outside a central prison in the southern port city, they … read more
Thu, 2021-01-07 22:13 DUBAI: History is full of examples of mighty cities brought to their knees by deadly disease outbreaks. While COVID-19’s global toll is miniscule compared with the ravages of, say, the Black Death during the Middle Ages, the … read more
Author: Zaynab Khojji ID: 1610049045891910300 Thu, 2021-01-07 22:07 CAIRO: Millions of Egypt’s Copts have been forced to watch Christmas Mass from their homes amid strict precautionary measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Coptic Orthodox churches celebrated Christmas on … read more