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October 14th, 2025 - 12:42 GMT

Sally Shakkour

Gaza Municipality, Qatari Committee join efforts to remove rubble from roads

ALBAWABA - Construction vehicles were seen in the streets of the Gaza Strip as part of a campaign between the Gaza Municipality and the Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza. Construction vehicles were seen on Al-Shaaf Street in Eastern Gaza City to open closed roads due to the rubble after the end of the two-year war in the strip. Gaza Municipality posted on X footage and wrote, "Gaza Municipality ...

Jordanian Prime Minster Abdullah Ensour casts his vote in Amman on Tuesday. (Image via Jordan News Agency, Petra)

August 27th, 2013 - 10:57 GMT

Amid Syria turmoil, Jordanians vote in municipal elections

Secularists will come head to head with ultraconservative Islamist groups during the creation of the final draft of Egypt's constitution. Egypt's interim president Adly Mansour was handed the latest constitutional amendments on Monday. (AFP)

August 27th, 2013 - 06:45 GMT

Secularism to 'dominate' Egyptian constitution

An Egyptian army soldier holds his rifle as he walks by a street cleaner behind a barbed wire checkpoint on a street in Cairo on August 23, 2013. (AFP)

August 26th, 2013 - 08:57 GMT

Egyptian Salafist Nour Party to 'protect Islamic identity' in new constitution

Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood spray graffiti on the wall reading "Rabia", meaning four in a Arabic, and which has become a symbol to remember those killed in the crackdown on the Rabaa al-Adawiya camp, on August 23, 2013. (AFP)

August 26th, 2013 - 06:48 GMT

Egypt ready to 'move on' after defeating conspiracy 'against the state'

Egyptian judge Mohamed al-Karmouti (C) announces the adjournment of the trial of Muslim Brotherhood Supreme leader Mohamed Badie and 32 other Islamists on August 25, 2013 at a Cairo court. (AFP)

August 25th, 2013 - 12:08 GMT

Muslim Brotherhood leaders trial postponed by Egyptian court

An image grab taken from the Egyptian state TV shows Egypt's ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak sitting in the defendants' cage on August 25, 2013 during his trial in Cairo. (AFP/Egyptian TV)

August 25th, 2013 - 10:38 GMT

Mubarak trial underway amid tight security across Cairo

emeni security forces inspect a damaged military bus following a bomb blast in Sanaa on August 25, 2013.(AFP)

August 25th, 2013 - 09:21 GMT

Bomb strikes Yemeni military bus, killing six

Hosni Mubarak, Khairat Al Shater, Hazem Abu-Ismail and Mohamed Badie. (Image courtesy of Ahram Online)

August 25th, 2013 - 06:34 GMT

Mubarak, Brotherhood due in court

A handout image released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network shows Syrian volunteers helping victims in a field hospital in the eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus, whom the Syrian opposition said on August 21, 2013 were killed in a toxic gas attack by pro-government forces. AFP PHOTO/HO/SHAAM NEWS NETWORK

August 24th, 2013 - 04:51 GMT

Medecins Sans Frontieres treats over 3,000 with "neurotoxic symptoms"

Palestinians wait near their luggage at the Rafah border terminal in the southern Gaza Strip before crossing into neighbouring Egypt on August 24, 2013. AFP PHOTO SAID KHATIB

August 24th, 2013 - 04:24 GMT

Egypt re-opens border crossing into Gaza

SYRIA, JOBAR : A handout picture released by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on August 24, 2013 shows bags of what the Syrian government claims to be materials used to make chemical weapons discovered in Jobar on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. AFP PHOTO / HO / SANA"

August 24th, 2013 - 03:42 GMT

Syrian government say rebels behind attacks

IRAN, Tehran : Iranian President Hassan Rowhani is seen on a TV screen as he speaks during a parliament session to elect the cabinet members on August 15, 2013. AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI

August 24th, 2013 - 10:07 GMT

Iran acknowledges chemical weapons use in Syria