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Israeli air strikes continue on Gaza, as Zionist settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque

31 Palestinians were killed, including 6 children and 4 women, in Israeli strikes since Friday

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We will not forget role of Egypt in liberation of Angola: Ambassador Nelson Cosme

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Egypt stresses strong relations with Kuwait, condemns attempts to disrupt them

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Iran warns of ‘harsh consequences’ if US acts on Syria

The Al-Nusra Front, a fierce Al-Qaeda-linked group fighting the regime of Bashar al-Assad, vowed revenge against villages of the Syrian president’s minority Alawite community.

Turkey and Qatar urge Egypt to return to the ballot box, release Morsi

FMs Davutoğlu and Al-Attiyah say that “legitimacy must return to Egypt”

Car bombs at Lebanon mosques kill 42, wound hundreds

Both blasts hit at the hour of weekly Muslim prayers, in a city where Sunni supporters of Syria’s rebels engage in frequent, often deadly, clashes with Alawites, who back the Assad regime.

Tunisia opposition rejects Islamists’ concession

“All negotiations without the dissolution of the government are a waste of time,” a representative of the National Salvation Front said

Syria chemical use would be ‘crime against humanity’: Ban Ki-moon

Damascus denied it unleashed chemical weapons, particularly at a time when the UN was in Syria to inspect three sites where other such attacks allegedly took place.

Israel strikes Lebanon after rocket attack

Israeli aircraft “targeted a terror site located between Beirut and Sidon in response to a barrage of four rockets launched at northern Israel yesterday”

What are the West’s military options in Syria?

Following reports of a large-scale chemical weapons strike, pressure is mounting on the US and its Western allies to act to halt the violence in Syria.

Syria urged to allow UN to site of ‘chemical attack’

Syria came under intense pressure to allow UN inspectors to visit the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack near Damascus

Blasts rock north Israel as rockets fired from Lebanon

A security source in Lebanon said that four rockets were fired at Israel from the south

Saudi, Gulf states throw weight behind Egypt

Seeing political Islam espoused by ousted president Mohamed Morsi as a threat

Iraq backs Egypt crackdown on Morsi supporters

Nuri al-Maliki appealed for “self-restraint” but said Baghdad stood with the Egyptian government

Ideological split across Arab world (AFP/Graphic)

Hezbollah chief says he is ready to fight in Syria

Hezbollah is a key supporter of President Bashar Al-Assad and has sent fighters across the border to Syria this year to bolster government forces

Iran arms to Syria down but not over: Iraq FM

The United States has criticized Iraq for allowing Iran to fly weapons to Syria in support of embattled President Bashar Al-Assad

Hamas condemns ‘terrible massacre’ in Egypt

The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas which rules Gaza condemned Egypt’s bloody crackdown Wednesday on Morsi supporters

Qatar ‘strongly denounces’ force against Egypt demos

The gas-rich Gulf state was a major financial supporter of Egypt under the presidency of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Morsi

Tunisia braces for rival demos as crisis talks fail

AFP- Supporters and opponents of Tunisia’s Islamist-led government were expected to flood the streets of the capital in rival rallies Tuesday marking national women’s day, after a bid to resolve a weeks-old crisis foundered. The government led by the Islamist Ennahda party and its detractors have been locked in a bitter feud sparked by the murder …