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The trial of Al-Jazeera reporter Howeida Taha was adjourned to 16 September. Nawara has detailed report with videos here…

From Al-Jazeera…
Six Palestinians have been killed in two attacks launched by Israeli aircraft in the southern Gaza Strip.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza reported that three of the dead on Saturday were members of the al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad and were killed when an Israeli strike hit their car in the [...]

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I would like to thank labor writer Stephen Franklin for all the support he has given bloggers and journalists during his stay in Cairo…

[Above: (L-R) Stephen Franklin, Ad-Dostour labor correspondent Mustafa Bassiouni, and Dr. Joel Beinin in training workshop for Egyptian journalists on how to cover labor struggles. Photo [...]

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From Al-Jazeera…
Israeli troops have killed a Palestinian from the Fatah movement on the second day of a large-scale military raid targeting armed loyalists of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said soldiers had shot the Palestinian on Friday as he fled from the troops in a refugee camp near the West Bank [...]

From Ikhwan Web…
State security forces arrested 33 students from the Egyptian summer resort of Hanoville, Agamy, west of Alexandria , on Saturday at dawn, after raiding three flats which the students rented to spend three days holiday. The students belong to the Muslim Brotherhood group, 26 of them are engineering students at Ain Shams [...]

From the BBC…
The US military in Iraq has charged two of its soldiers with the murder of three Iraqis between April and June in the Iskandariya area, south of Baghdad.
Both of the men are accused of premeditated murder and placing weapons beside the bodies of the dead, who were killed in three separate incidents.
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It is happening again, this time in Aswan…
Clashes broke out on the Aswan Island in Upper Egypt as a mobile phone company tried to install signal tower on the island. The residents, believing this would endanger their health and safety, fought the company officials and threw the construction materials for the tower in the Nile [...]

From Al-Jazeera…
The armed wing of Hamas has rejected calls by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, for the deployment of international troops in the Gaza Strip, vowing to attack them like other “occupation forces”.
The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement on Saturday: “We will only receive these forces with shells and rockets.”
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Again, I feel frustrated I can’t follow up the Al-Azhar teachers‘ strike properly due to some work commitments, and unfortunately I haven’t seen any photos nor videos of that action up till now. (And I have to say I’m disappointed fellow bloggers did not see this as a story worth following, thus I didn’t find [...]

Like many other devoted citizens of el-Ezzba Republic, I was horrified by the news of Abu Gamal’s death.

How could our leader just pass away like that?! But then I smelt a rat… It had to be one of Abu Gamal’s genius tricks… faking his own death, to know who the enemies are (those bastards who [...]

From Al-Jazeera…
Lebanese troops have fired at Palestinian civilians demanding to return to their homes at the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, killing at least two protesters and wounding 50 others, witnesses and hospital sources said.
The army said soldiers opened fire on Friday to stop the refugees from re-entering the camp because it was too dangerous [...]