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Jul 22, 2015

Top News: Right to Information Law to Criminalize Spreading Rumors on Social Networks

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s cabinet will reportedly begin discussing the final draft of the new Right to Information Law next week, upon Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab’s return from a trip to Italy.

MENASource

Jul 22, 2015

EconSource: UAE to Scrap Subsidized Price Controls on Fuel

By EconSource

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) said it would said it would do away with fuel price controls in a politically sensitive reform that could save the government billions of dollars. Authorities plan to begin linking fuel prices to global prices as of August 1.

MENASource

Jul 21, 2015

Egypt through the Lens of the State Department’s Terrorism Reports

By Elissa Miller

The Department of State (DOS) recently released its 2014 Country Reports on Terrorism, offering an in-depth look at terrorism around the world and efforts various countries are taking aimed at its eradication. Several trends can be identified from the 2014 reports’ discussion of terrorism and counterterrorism efforts in Egypt, which are especially relevant given a […]

North Africa

MENASource

Jul 21, 2015

Top News: Prominent Libyans Face EU Sanctions

By MENASource

European Union (EU) foreign ministers met yesterday in Brussels to try and push forward the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Peace Accord. The EU is looking at preparing asset freezes and travel bans against five named Libyans.

MENASource

Jul 21, 2015

ISIS Attempts to Shake the Gulf

By Mona Alami

Another suicide bombing has shaken the Gulf region, as young Saudi Abdallah Fahd Abdallah Rashid blew himself up at a checkpoint in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on July 16. Rashid conducted the bombing just after killing his uncle, a colonel with the Saudi Ministry of Interior.

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MENASource

Jul 21, 2015

Top News: Sexual Harassers in 340 Reports Released After Girls Failed to Sign Police Report

By EgyptSource

Perpetrators of sexual harassment in 340 incidents during the first day of Eid al-Fitr, mostly verbal, were reportedly released because the women who were harassed did not go to police stations to sign the police reports.

MENASource

Jul 21, 2015

EconSource: EU Decides to Increase Tunisia Annual Olive Oil Export Quota

By EconSource

The European Union (EU) on Monday agreed to help Tunisia boost its economy by raising quotas on how much olive oil it can sell in EU markets. The EU will raise Tunisia’s annual olive oil export quota to 25,000 tonnes.

MENASource

Jul 20, 2015

Egypt’s Fight for Independent Journalist Unions

By Miriam Berger

The headquarters for the Independent Union for Egyptian Journalists is a small office shared with a media rights group, just steps away from the Middle East News Agency (MENA), one of the main organs of the Egyptian government’s media machine in downtown Cairo. This way, explained founder Wael Tawfik in April, the syndicate can be close to […]

North Africa

MENASource

Jul 20, 2015

Top News: Explosion in Turkish-Syrian Border Town Kills Twenty-Eight

An explosion Monday in Turkey’s southeastern city of Suruc killed twenty-eight people and sent one hundred others to the hospital. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but a Turkish official said there is evidence that the attack was a suicide bombing and was likely carried out by the Islamic State (ISIS […]

MENASource

Jul 20, 2015

EconSource: Egypt, Italy to Sign MOUs on Energy Deals; Eni Discovers Gas Reserves in Nile Delta

By EconSource

Egypt’s Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab will travel to Italy Wednesday for a three-day visit that will see him signing memorandum of understanding (MOUs) on prospective electricity, power and oil deals.