The Syrian campaign closed on Sunday in the middle of the civil war that ravaged the country for over three years. Bashar al-Assad, who chairs the Republic since his father Hafez died fourteen years ago, is presented for the first time an election with alternative candidates. He had undergone prior two referendums, in 2000 and […]
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After a long diplomatic career that led him to chair the Arab League, at 77, Amr Musa has turned in Egyptian politics. The disappointing outcome of his candidacy in the 2012 presidential election he kept himself in foreground. Musa was the president of the Constituent Assembly that drafted late last year the new constitution of […]
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Buffeted by the tourist camel that led from the outskirts of the Giza pyramids with transistor blaring, two young Egyptian clapped Wednesday to songs that call vote for president. Standing on the ground, the student Ahmed Nassar admitted that he would not vote in the third election day. Neither quarterback retired Abdelfatá AL Sisi, strong […]
May 30 2014 | Posted in
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The Egyptian authorities Tuesday decided to extend the presidential elections in a third day to compensate for the low turnout on Monday and Tuesday. Officials said the action was taken “to allow more people to participate.” The lack of interest in the elections to harm the quarterback Abdelfatá Sisi that seeks legitimacy as the new […]
May 29 2014 | Posted in
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The Palestinian unity government is about to become a reality. As the different factions have announced Tuesday in a press conference in Gaza, though no agreement yet on the 15 ministers who will shape it. On Thursday, their names will be announced at a ceremony to be held in Ramallah (West Bank), led by President […]
While a smiling Abdel Fatah al Sisi voted Monday in a polling of the affluent Cairo neighborhood of Heliopolis, Mohamed Morsi, the rais who was deposed nearly one year ago, languishes in prison Burj al-Arab, near the city of Alexandria. The Islamist politician, the first elected president of Egypt at the polls, is being tried […]
May 28 2014 | Posted in
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The first day of the Egyptian elections Monday closed smoothly. Ten months after the overthrow of the Islamist Mohamed Morsi, left president elections in Egypt, the recently retired quarterback Sisi Abdelfatá to caress an expected landslide victory. Al Sisi is about to establish itself as yet another Egyptian military leader in the tradition of Gamal […]
May 28 2014 | Posted in
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A convoy of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), consisting of six inspectors and five Syrian driver, suffered an attack this Monday in northern Syria. The convoy consisted of four UN vehicles was heading to the town of Taibet al- Imam, on the outskirts of the northern province of Hama, to investigate […]
“Nobody instrumentalized the name of God for violence,” said Pope Francisco. It was delivered this morning to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammad Ahmad Hussein, in the beautiful Temple Mount, so close, just a few meters and so far – dozens of police and military and centuries of mutual misunderstanding – the Wall Lamentations, the […]
Egyptian presidential advertised around Cairo with a huge signage that, although it is well diverse revealed from day one who has everything to gain in the voting on Monday and Tuesday. Almost all banners, signs and posters in the capital of Egypt show only the candidate Abdel Fatah to Sisi. Next to Tahrir Square, the […]
May 27 2014 | Posted in
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The first words of Pope Francisco Saturday after landing in Jordan, the first leg of his three-day trip to the Holy Land, have been on thanks to Jordan for hosting ” generously large numbers of Palestinian refugees, Iraqi and Syrian especially ” and its king, Abdullah II, for his commitment to dialogue in the region: […]
May 26 2014 | Posted in
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From Amman to Bethlehem, helicopter, without stepping on Israeli land, Pope Francis started his second day in the Holy Land in the same way the first ended: invoking the need for a peaceful and urgent to peace process. “I encourage the Palestinian and Israeli peoples and their respective authorities,” said Jorge Mario Bergoglio to the […]
May 26 2014 | Posted in
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