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Jun 1, 2015

EconSource: Oil Halts Advance as Saudis Pump at Record Before OPEC Meeting

By EconSource

Oil halted a two-day advance as Saudi Arabia maintained record crude output in May before the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meets this week to discuss its production policy.

MENASource

May 29, 2015

Top News: Saudi Arabia Suicide Bomb Attack Kills Four in Dammam

By MENASource

A suicide attack on Friday occurred near al-Anoud mosque in the eastern city of Dammam, where many Shia live.

MENASource

May 29, 2015

EconSource: Libya on Verge of Economic Collapse, UN Envoy Warns

By EconSource

The United Nation’s Special Envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon said Thursday that Libya is on the verge of economic collapse as rival factions haggle over a political settlement.

MENASource

May 29, 2015

Top News: Police Officer Acquitted of Charge of Torturing 2011 Suspect to Death

By EgyptSource

An Egyptian court on Thursday acquitted a state security officer who had been convicted of torturing to death an Islamist detainee, state media said. Mohamed Abdel Rahman al-Shemi had been sentenced to fifteen years in prison for torturing and killing Salafist detainee, Sayed Bilal.

MENASource

May 28, 2015

Rare Acquittal Renews Protest Law Debate

By Khaled Dawoud

The dozens of lawyers crammed in a small room at Abdin’s Courthouse on May 23 were unable to contain their shock when the judge ruled to acquit all seventeen defendants charged with holding an illegal protest on January 24. The defendants, accused of breaking Egypt’s restrictive protest law, were facing up to five years in […]

North Africa

MENASource

May 28, 2015

Top News: Airstrikes Kill At Least Eighty in Deadliest Bombings of Yemen War

By MENASource

Saudi-led airstrikes killed at least eighty people near Yemen’s border with Saudi Arabia and in the capital Sana’a on Wednesday, residents said, the deadliest day of bombing in over two months of war in Yemen.

MENASource

May 28, 2015

Top News: Parliament Before End of 2015, Sisi Tells Political Party Heads

By EgyptSource

After a three-hour meeting with the heads of the country’s mainstream political parties Wednesday, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi stressed that the long-delayed parliamentary elections will be held at the nearest possible time and that Egypt will have a new parliament before the end of 2015.

MENASource

May 28, 2015

EconSource: Even with Billions in Gulf Aid, Egypt May Still Turn to IMF

By EconSource

Egypt’s on-and-off talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may be back on again, as investors say IMF loans offer a stronger platform for reviving the Egyptian economy than the Gulf money currently keeping it afloat.

MENASource

May 28, 2015

Lebanonizing Yemen May Save It

By Nabeel Khoury

The Lebanese governance system, known as the National Pact of 1943, consists of a power-sharing formula based on a sectarian quota system, an agreement to forgo regional affiliations in favor of a Lebanon-first policy, and a pledge to seek consensus on any decision of national import.

Yemen

MENASource

May 27, 2015

Top News: Turkey Begins Training of Moderate Syrian Rebels with United States

By MENASource

Turkey and the United States have started training moderate Syrian rebels on Turkish territory to prepare them to fight the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL), the Turkish Foreign Minister said Tuesday.