President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday urged the West to "correct its manners" if it wants to "win the respect of Iranians" ahead of nuclear talks in Baghdad later this month. "If the West corrects its manners and respects the Iranian people, in return it will gain the respect of the Iranians," the official IRNA
Iran upheld on a death sentence against a man convicted for assassinating a nuclear physicist two year ago, and 13 others may face the same fate after having been found guilty on Sunday for working for the Israeli Mossad spy agency. The Tehran prosecutor said on Sunday that Majid Jamali Fashi, convicted for assassinating
Arab terrorists attacked southern Israel with a Kassam rocket early Tuesday and attacked Jews in the Hevron area with two firebombs overnight as “Nakba Day” began. No one was injured. The rocket, fired from northern Gaza, exploded in an open area near Sderot, and the firebombs were hurled at IDF soldiers stationed at the
Algeria’s traditional bars are closing one after the other but illegal outlets are mushrooming, in a prohibition-style game of cat-and-mouse played out with an increasingly Islamic state. Islamist parties may have suffered a stinging electoral setback last week but Algeria’s Islamization has been driven chiefly by the old ruling party, which took the lion's
A group of Egyptian medical and human rights organizations on Monday condemned reports on the mobile medical convoy for circumcision of girls in the southern Egyptian governorate of Minya, organized by the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), an Egyptian news website reported on Tuesday. They expressed, in a joint statement, their shock
Lady Gaga will have to cancel her sold-out show in Indonesia because police worry her sexy clothes and dance moves undermine Islamic values and will corrupt the country’s youth. National police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said Tuesday the permit for her June 3 “Born This Way Ball” concert - the biggest show on her
An Egyptian official said on Sunday night that Israel has agreed to a proposal that would end a mass hunger strike by Palestinian Authority Arabs in Israeli jails. The official told The Associated Press that the Egyptian-drafted proposal still needs to be approved by the prisoners. The official, who spoke on condition of
Hamas says Israel has agreed to meet enough of their demands to end to the hunger strike by terrorists and security prisoners. Israel has not commented on the recent development. Not wanting the issue to explode into a propaganda victory for the Palestinian Authority, Israel reportedly agreed to move jailed prisoners, some of them
Reports Saturday night said that Ouda Tarabin, an Israeli citizen who has been jailed in Egypt for the past twelve years, could be released “within hours.” The report in the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram Saturday quoted top Egyptian military officials. According to the report, Israel is to release 63 Egyptians being held in Israeli prisons
Thousands of Palestinian Authority Arabs marched in Hevron, Shechem and Gaza on Friday, in solidarity with terrorist prisoners in Israeli jails who have been holding a mass hunger strike. According to a report on Kol Yisrael radio, PA security forces tried to prevent the protesters in Hevron from clashing with IDF soldiers. Some
