The battle for Mosul may be over but the media war has just begun in the former Daesh stronghold in Iraq.
Iraq’s second largest city is where the terror group declared its self-styled Caliphate three years ago and where Baghdad declared its end in June.
Thousands fled the city during the eight-month battle — among them journalists caught in theRead more
Director of the Media Department and Spokesman for the Attorney General Mohamed Samir said that Head of Administrative Prosecution will hand over the anti-corruption report within days to President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, stressing that the report will include statistical analysis digitally details of each government sector suffers from crises and irregularities, and addresses the reasons that led to the commission ofRead more
An official source at the Saudi Foreign Ministry commented on news circulated by certain hostile media that a Saudi official had secretly visited Israel and confirmed that the news was completely untrue, null and void. The ministry source added that Saudi Arabia has always been clear in its contacts and has nothing to hide in this regard.
The source concludedRead more
Israeli police have mistakenly arrested then released a Palestinian who posted “good morning” in Arabic on Facebook after software mistranslated it as “attack them,” police and a media report said Sunday.
Police only confirmed that a Palestinian had been mistakenly arrested then released following suspicions of incitement, but a report in Haaretz newspaper provided further details.
According to the report,Read more
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe swept to a resounding victory in snap elections Sunday, media projections showed, putting the nationalist blue blood on course to become Japan's longest-serving PM.
Abe's conservative coalition was on track to win 311 seats in the 465-seat parliament, according to private broadcaster TBS.
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Netflix said Monday it added some five million new subscribers over the past three months as profits doubled, in a quarterly update that sent shares of the streaming video giant higher.
California-based Netflix ended the third quarter with more than 104 million paid subscribers, with international memberships hitting 52.7 million and overtaking the number of US subscribers.
Net profits meanwhileRead more
Israeli intelligence officials spying on Russian government hackers found they were using Kaspersky Lab antivirus software that is also used by 400 million people globally, including US government agencies, according to media reports on Tuesday.
The Israeli officials who had hacked into Kaspersky’s network over two years ago then warned their US counterparts of the Russian intrusion, said The NewRead more
Political leaders, religious authorities and the media were urged on Wednesday not to make Syrian refugees scapegoats for Lebanon’s problems.
“Lebanon is headed toward parliamentary elections, and there are so many controversial debates about issues that affect Lebanese society, politics and the economy,” said Mireille Girard, representative in Lebanon for the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.
“Tension may sometimes be focusedRead more