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By Mahmoud Ghareb CAIRO (AA) – Despite their 1979 peace treaty, relations between Egypt and Israel have long remained cold due to the latter’s heavy-handed treatment of Palestinians in the occupied territories. However, there have been signs of warming Egyptian-Israeli ties since Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi came to power in 2014. Egypt was the […]

13th Feb 2016

Egyptian doctors protest alleged police brutality

By Mahmoud Gharib CAIRO (AA): Thousands of Egyptian doctors attended an emergency Doctors’ Syndicate meeting in Cairo on Friday to discuss police brutality against medical personnel. More than 4,000 doctors, who arrived from across the country, were joined by members of other syndicates, including journalists, engineers and teachers. Two doctors working at al-Matariya Hospital had […]

26th Jan 2016

Egypt: 3 killed, 37 arrested on 5th Egypt uprising anniversary

CAIRO (AA) – The fifth anniversary of Egypt’s 2011 popular uprising on Monday saw the arrest of 37 protesters and the death of three people at the hands of security forces, according to a local human rights activist. Ezzat Ghoneim, head of the Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms, a local NGO, told Anadolu Agency […]

25th Jan 2016

Egypt: 1,370 Brotherhood members’ assets frozen since 2013

By Mohamed Sabry CAIRO (AA) – Egyptian authorities have frozen the assets of 1,370 members of the now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group since late 2013, according to an Egyptian official. Ezzat Khamis, the head of a government-appointed committee tasked with running the Brotherhood’s confiscated assets, said Sunday that 1,125 Brotherhood-linked NGOs had also been seized […]

21st Jan 2016

Egypt: Terrorists kill 5 policemen in Sinai

CAIRO (AA): Five policemen were killed in a militant attack in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula late Wednesday, the country’s Interior Ministry said. In a statement, the ministry said that unidentified gunmen had opened fire on a security checkpoint in the North Sinai city of Arish. “Five policemen, including three officers, were killed in an exchange […]

10th Jan 2016

Egypt: 1 killed, 4 hurt in knife attack in resort city

[Photo: Terrorist attacks continute to take place in Egypt. Earlier, damaged cars are seen after a blast at Faisal neighborhood in Giza, on December 27, 2015. Photograph: İbrahim Ramadan/AA] Mahmoud Barakat CAIRO (AA) – A security guard was killed and four foreign tourists were injured late Friday by two knife-wielding assailants who snuck into a […]

30th Dec 2015

Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan reach deal on controversial Nile dam

CAIRO (AA): Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on Tuesday signed an agreement regarding a controversial mega-dam project being built by Addis Ababa on the Nile. The deal crowned three days of talks between the irrigation and foreign ministers of the three countries in the Sudanese capital Khartoum. The agreement calls for completing the technical studies into […]

18th Dec 2015

UK review links Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood to extremism

CAIRO (AA) – A British government review into Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood group has concluded that membership or links to the Islamist movement is a “possible indicator of extremism”. “Parts of the Muslim Brotherhood have a highly ambiguous relationship with violent extremism,” British Prime Minister David Cameron said in a written statement to parliament on Thursday. “Both […]

13th Dec 2015

Egypt: Gunmen kill three Egyptian soldiers in N Sinai

CAIRO (AA) – Three Egyptian army soldiers were killed Saturday when unidentified assailants targeted a checkpoint in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, a security source told Anadolu Agency. The attack took place at al-Masoura checkpoint on a highway between Rafah and Arish. There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack. Since the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi in a […]

30th Nov 2015

Egypt rounds up 38 Brotherhood members in fresh sweeps

CAIRO (AA) – Egyptian police have rounded up 38 members of the embattled Muslim Brotherhood group in fresh security sweeps, the Interior Ministry announced Sunday. In a statement, the ministry said that the Brotherhood members had been arrested over the past 24 hours for committing and inciting alleged “acts of violence”. The fresh sweeps come […]

7th Nov 2015

Russia joins UK in suspending Sharm el-Sheikh flights

LONDON (AA): Thousands of tourists remain stranded in Sharm el-Sheikh after Russia joined a lengthening list of countries suspending flights to the Egyptian resort. President Vladimir Putin asked for the suspension of all flights to Egypt following security concerns raised by the U.K., which called off flights on Wednesday over fears a plane crash at […]

5th Nov 2015

UK, Ireland suspend all flights from Egyptian resort

LONDON (AA): All flights carrying British and Irish passengers home from Egypt were suddenly suspended over fears that Saturday’s Russian jet crash may have been caused by a bomb, authorities from both countries announced on Wednesday. No flights for the U.K. or Ireland will leave Sharm el-Sheikh on Wednesday night to allow British aviation experts to assess the […]

2nd Nov 2015

Egypt defends UN vote in Israel’s favor

CAIRO (AA): Egypt’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday defended a decision to vote in favor of Israeli membership in the UN’s space committee. On Thursday, Egypt sparked an uproar after voting in favor of an Israeli request to become a member of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS). In a statement, […]

1st Nov 2015

Egypt: 129 bodies recovered in Russian plane crash over Sinai

CAIRO (AA): A Russian passenger plane with more than 200 people aboard which crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, have recovered 129 bodies, according to the Egyptian Prime Minister’s office. A Russian Airbus A-321 aircraft carrying a total of 224 people crashed in central Sinai, the office said in a statement. The crash has […]

31st Oct 2015

Egypt: Russian jet with 224 people aboard crashes in Sinai

CAIRO (AA): A Russian passenger plane with more than 200 people aboard crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, according to the Egyptian Prime Minister’s office. A Russian Airbus-321 aircraft carrying a total of 224 people crashed in central Sinai, the prime minister’s office said in a statement. According to Egypt’s Civil Aviation Authority, the […]

28th Oct 2015

Yemen: Saudi-led coalition airstrikes hit hospital

Human Rights Watch: The airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition on a hospital in northern Yemen supported by Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontiers, MSF) on October 26, 2015, was in apparent violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said today. The attack with a half-dozen bombs destroyed Haydan Hospital, the only medical facility […]

7th Sep 2015

Egypt: Brotherhood’s Qaradawi referred to military court

CAIRO (AA): Egypt’s prosecutor-general has referred Egyptian-born Muslim scholar and Muslim Brotherhood leader Yusuf Qaradawi – who has long been based in Qatar – and several other Brotherhood leaders to a military court to face charges of murder. In a statement issued Saturday, the prosecutor-general said the defendants were accused of “killing a security official […]

20th Aug 2015

Egypt: Blast rocks Cairo, 6 policemen injured

CAIRO (AA): A powerful blast rocked near a state security headquarters in Egyptian capital Cairo early Thursday amid reports of casualties. A car-bomb went off outside a National Security building in the northern Cairo suburb of Shubra al-Kheima, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. At least six policemen were injured in the blast, which […]

11th Aug 2015

Egypt: Three policemen injured in Cairo blast

CAIRO (AA): Three policemen were injured in a bomb blast near a courthouse in eastern Cairo on Monday, the Interior Ministry said. An explosive device went off inside a traffic sentry post in Heliopolis district, injuring two traffic officers and a conscript, the ministry said in a statement. A security source earlier said that two […]

7th Aug 2015

Egypt: Sisi launches Suez Canal expansion project

CAIRO (AA): Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on Thursday officially opened a new shipping route of the Suez Canal. At a lavish ceremony attended by a host of foreign leaders, Sisi inaugurated the project, which the government hopes will double Egypt’s Suez Canal earnings from the current $5.3 billion per year to some $13 billion annually. “We, Abdel-Fattah […]

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Over 120 people attended a landmark conference on the media reporting of Islam and Muslims. It was held jointly by The Muslim News and Society of Editors in London on September 15.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence event is to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to society. Over 850 people from diverse background, Muslim and non-Muslim, attended the gala dinner.