Egypt’s parliament on Tuesday unanimously approved a three-month state of emergency declared by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi after deadly church bombings, state-run Nile News television reported. The measure was published in Egypt’s official gazette on Monday and said to have come into effect at 1:00 pm (1100 GMT) the same ...
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced that it is scheduled that the Russian, Iranian and Syrian top diplomats hold a meeting in Moscow this weekend. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Iranian as well as Syrian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif and Walid Al-Moallem will hold a tripartite meeting ...