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L’association Al Adl Wal Ihsane (Justice et spiritualité) a annoncé aujourd’hui lors d’une conférence de presse tenue à Salé que Mohamed Abbadi, autrefois numéro 2 du défunt Abdessalam Yassine, a été élu « secrétaire général » lors d’une réunion extraordinaire du Conseil de la Choura, l’organe suprême de ce mouvement islamiste, les 21, 23 et 23 décembre à Salé.

International peace envoy tasked with ending Syria’s conflict has arrived in Syria and is set to meet with President Bashar al-Assad.

Lakhdar Brahimi is hoping to "achieve a breakthrough", to broker a solution that would lead to a consensus transitional government with full authority, diplomatic sources told Al Jazeera on Sunday.

Brahimi's trip is his third to Damascus since taking his post in August.

Egypt's vice president has announced his resignation on the day of a referendum on a new constitution, state TV reported.

Mahmoud Mekki's resignation on Saturday was announced just hours before the end of voting in the second and final round of a referendum on a disputed Muslim Brotherhood-backed constitution.

Mekki, a career judge, has said he intends to quit once the charter is adopted.

The new constitution eliminates the post of vice president.

The No to Military Trials Campaign accuses Egypt's presidency of "lying" regarding the status of the military trials of civilians, in response to a statement released by Egypt's presidential assistant on foreign relations, Essam Haddad.

While Haddad's statement claims that the new constitution marks Egypt's progress towards universal Human Rights standards, including prohibiting the trying of civilians in military courts, the rights campaign condemned such a statement as completely false.

Le Service de la Coopération de l’Action Culturelle de la Coopération Française a organisé le 19 et 20 décembre 2012 une consultation avec les organisations de la société civile Mauritanienne animé par Monsieur Youssouf Cissé consultant indépendant Sénégalais.

A list of 90 members that shall be appointed to the Shura Council upheld by President Morsi; MENA reports that 75 per cent of the members are not from the Islamist current.

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has approved the schedule for door to door verification of voters’ in Karachi. The process will take 69 days to complete.

Two new political groups announced their nominees for the national ticket on Thursday, two days ahead of the start of the official period to file candidacy applications for the January 23 parliamentary polls.

The “Nation List”, which will be a nucleus of a new political party, announced on Thursday its 27 candidates on the national level, headed by former deputy Lower House speaker Atef Tarawneh.

The new group is expected to announce its full programme next week, according to Tarawneh.