Israel has renewed its criticism of Iran’s atomic agenda on Wednesday, accusing Tehran of working covertly on nuclear weapons while deceiving the international community by saying it does not want such arms. An Israeli delegate to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran had been working under a strategy he dubbed as “deception,
Egyptian economic and political analysts warned of the growing dangers of slum areas spreading across the country, especially what is commonly called the “explosive belt” around the capital Cairo. According to official reports, Egypt is home to 1,000 slum areas, 58 of which are located around Cairo in addition to another 67 that are
Egypt’s foreign reserves rose by $302 million in May, their second successive monthly increase, but the positive number may mask a continuing deterioration in Egypt’s finances, analysts and traders said. Foreign reserves climbed to $15.52 billion at the end of May from $15.21 billion at end-April, the central bank said. The reserves figure
Sudan’s annual inflation hit 30.4 percent in May, accelerating from 28.6 percent in April as prices for basic food items such as bread and meat climbed further, adding to woes of officials struggling to contain a severe economic crisis. In an effort to curb the Sudanese pound's slide, the central bank also started allowing
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's condition is deteriorating rapidly both physically and psychologically as he lies in the hospital wing of Cairo's Tora Prison, in the intensive care unit. His son Gamal, also incarcerated, was moved by Interior Minister Prisons Department Chief Mohamed Naguib to a ward next to the hospital in order to
A national Muslim civil rights organization filed a lawsuit against the NYPD today in Newark in response to the surveillance of Muslim-Americans in mosques, businesses and student groups. It is the first lawsuit to directly challenge the NYPD's surveillance programs, which were the subject of an investigative series by The Associated Press since last
U.S. embassy offices in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi came under attack during the night but there were no casualties, embassy and security sources said on Wednesday. “There was an attack late last night on the United States office in Benghazi,” a U.S. embassy official said, adding that only the gate was damaged and
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court is to sit just two days before a presidential election run-off to review the legality of a law that had threatened to bar one of the two remaining candidates, a spokesman said on Wednesday. “The court has scheduled June 14 as the date for its hearing on the appeal lodged
President Barack Obama for the seventh time has exercised the “security” waiver allowing him to ignore a Congressional law that the U.S. embassy be relocated to Jerusalem. The 1995 law requires the embassy to be located in the capital unless the president decides that doing so would endanger national security. Every American president has
Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s health is “severely deteriorating” three days after the chief prosecutor said he will appeal his life sentence and ask for the death penalty for complicity in the murders of more than 850 protesters last year. Sources inside the Cairo prison where he is being held said that Mubarak collapsed
