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Furor as Egypt officials use state funds for expensive cars

Feb 1, 2017

Egypt media sphere abuzz as parliament speaker, deputies use state funds to get expensive cars worth hundreds of thousands of dollars

Report: Children held by Kurdish forces allege torture

Jan 29, 2017

An international human rights group says children are alleging they were tortured after being detained by Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government on suspicion that they have connections to the Islamic State group

British PM May visits Turkey, reaches $125M fighter jet deal

Jan 28, 2017

Turkey and Britain signed a deal to jointly build fighter jets during Prime Minister Theresa May's visit to Ankara on Saturday, even as the British leader called on Turkey's government to uphold democracy and abide by human rights standards

Trump's immigration curbs no surprise, those affected say

Jan 28, 2017

Many citizens of Muslim-majority countries affected by President Donald Trump's curbs on travel to the United States say they are hardly surprised the restrictions rank among his first orders of business

Jan 22, 2017

Italian experts to travel to Egypt to probe student's death

Egypt has agreed to Italy's request to send experts to try and retrieve footage from security cameras at a Cairo metro station that a murdered Italian student used the day he disappeared nearly a year ago

Rights group slams Egypt's record in 2016

Jan 12, 2017

Human Rights Watch says Egypt has banned public criticism of the government, with hundreds of people disappearing at the hands of security forces and detainees routinely tortured

Pakistani court takes custody of girl in child abuse case

Jan 11, 2017

Pakistani court takes custody of 10-year-old girl at center of child abuse case, sends her to child care facility

Yemen's children starve as war drags on

Jan 2, 2017

Yemen's children are dying of malnutrition as civil war and a blockade imposed by a Saudi-led coalition cause food prices to soar in the Arab world's poorest nation

Iran shocked by images of homeless sleeping in graves

Dec 28, 2016

A series of photographs published by an Iranian freelancer photographer of homeless people sleeping in graves outside of Tehran has shocked the nation

US rights group says abuse rife in notorious Egypt prison

Sep 28, 2016

Human Rights Watch says prison guards at a maximum security facility in the Egyptian capital that holds political prisoners routinely abuse them in ways that may have contributed to some of their deaths

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