Liberal judges and activists have filed legal challenges to the decision by the Islamist-dominated parliament to appoint 50 of the 100 council members from their ranks and 50 from outside.
Arabs terrorists attacked an Israeli motorist Thursday in a drive-by rock attack near the Samaria Arab village of Duma.
The deadly uprising that has gripped Syria for over a year has largely spared Damascus but in past weeks the bloodshed has also made its entry into Damascus.
The controversial actress, who recently threatened to stage a protest in front of the press syndicate in Cairo against alleged attacks by journalists, also said that men linked to Balkimi threatened her with acid splashing.
U.S. Secretary of State Clinton to resume $1.3 billion in annual military aid to Egypt, suspended over human rights concerns.
Le Monde newspaper in France says Mohammed Merah visited Israel before the attack in Toulouse. Israeli officials investigating.
Gaza's Hamas rulers are caught between their rage at Israel and their distaste for having to cooperate with Egypt, leaving them powerless.
The ongoing process of Jews leaving European continent is tragic but unavoidable
The president was speaking at a memorial ceremony for the soldiers at their barracks in Montauban, while police in nearby Toulouse besieged the flat where a self-declared al-Qaeda gunman was holed up.
The story of Amriya demonstrates one of the reasons Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority and even some in the Muslim majority feel the situation is precarious
