The police's National Unit for International Investigations has arrested an Eritrean citizen, Kabri Gabrius, who lives in Tel Aviv, on suspicion of assisting a terror group. Gabrius, 22, is suspected of involvement in a terror group that operates in the Sinai Desert. He is believed to have been raising funds and collecting intelligence information
A car bomb ripped through a market area in a northwest Pakistan tribal town near the Afghan border on Saturday, killing 25 people including three children, officials said. “The death toll is 25,” from the blast in the main bazaar of Landi Kotal in Khyber tribal district, local administration chief Mutahir Zeb told AFP,
A Palestinian man was killed on Friday in clashes between the Lebanese army and Palestinian residents of a refugee camp in north Lebanon, security sources and camp leaders said. A security source said at least four Palestinians were hurt but a refugee camp leader said the count was much higher with around 23 Palestinians
The United Nations and South Sudanese authorities said on Friday they were investigating reports police had abducted and raped women during a disarmament program in the east of the troubled African nation. South Sudan declared independence from Sudan a year ago under a 2005 peace agreement that ended decades of civil war. But its
The dissolution of the Egyptian parliament elected after last year’s overthrow of veteran president Hosni Mubarak has alarmed investors who fear the country will now hurtle towards a balance of payments crisis and currency collapse. Growth in North Africa’s biggest economy has flatlined in the 16 months since the toppling of Mubarak’s 30-year regime.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Mursi, who faces ex-premier Ahmed Shafiq in a two-day presidential run-off, has pledged that Egypt under his leadership will be inclusive, courting secular and Christian voters. A retiring individual, bearded and bespectacled, Mursi vows to uphold the goals of last year's revolution that ousted Hosni Mubarak and to share power
Fitch Ratings downgraded Egypt’s sovereign credit rating deeper into junk status on Friday, citing the rising political crisis after the nation’s Supreme Constitutional court annulled parliamentary elections. The rating, cut by one notch to B-plus from BB-minus, has a negative outlook, meaning there is a greater than 50 percent chance of more downgrades in
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood pinned its hopes Friday on weekend elections to salvage its waning political fortunes, according to a report in The Associated Press. The runoff vote set for Saturday and Sunday pits Ahmed Shafiq, former President Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister, against Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi. The Brotherhood rose to become the
The Palestine Football Association (PFA) has asked UEFA to bar Israel from hosting the 2013 European Under-21 Championship, AFP reported on Thursday. The reason for the request is what the PFA described as Israel’s detention without trial of Palestinian Authority Arab players. In a letter to UEFA President Michel Platini, PFA President Jibril
The ruling military council held an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss how they would proceed after the country’s Supreme Constitutional Court ordered the dissolution of the parliament, an Egyptian daily reported on Friday. The controversial court decision comes on the eve of Egypt’s second round of presidential vote, scheduled on Saturday and Sunday,
