The body overseeing Egypt’s presidential election said it would not announce the results on Thursday as planned, saying it needed more time to study appeals from the candidates, but did not say when it might be ready, the state news agency reported. The Egyptian presidential run-off pitted the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Mursi against Ahmed
This week’s attacks on the Egypt-Israel border has renewed concerns on the security of the Sinai Peninsula, putting into question the effectiveness of the peace treaty between the two countries that was established over 3 decades ago. Last night, an Islamist militant group under the name “Shura Council of the Mujahideen of Jerusalem,” released
A coalition of independent judges in Egypt said on Wednesday that the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate Mohammed Mursi has won the presidential election, beating former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq, according to their tally. The group, named “Judges for Egypt,” said Mursi had won with 13.2 million votes while Shafiq had amassed 12. 3 million.
Ohio Congressional candidate Samuel Wuerzelbacher, also-known-as “Joe the Plumber,” issued a controversial YouToube video Monday linking the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide to gun control. "In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated. In 1939, Germany established gun control. From 1938 to
Dennis Ross, former senior adviser to U.S. Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, says he believes the Muslim Brotherhood will win Egypt's presidential election. Ross made the statement Wednesday at the fourth annual Israeli Presidential Conference “Facing Tomorrow 2012,” being held this week in Jerusalem. Ambassador Ross said he believes that Muslim Brotherhood
In a joint IDF and Shin Bet activity Wednesday in southern Gaza, IAF aircraft targeted a Global Jihad terror operative involved in the planning and execution of Monday's terror attack against Israeli construction workers. One Israeli civilian was killed in that attack, which took place on the Israel-Egypt border. Earlier, IAF aircraft struck
An appeals court granted permission Tuesday for the building of a multi-million-euro mosque in the city of Marseille that has been touted as a symbol of Islam’s growing place in France. The court overturned an October ruling by Marseille’s administrative tribunal that cancelled the project’s construction permit for supposed failures to meet urban-planning requirements.
The Muslim Brotherhood has committed several grave mistakes since the regime was toppled in 2011, said professor of law Hossam Eissa. “When the referendum on the constitutional amendments was drawing near, they disappeared from the scene and switched off their cell phones,” he told Al Arabiya’s Presidential Candidate. “They started holding meetings with the
Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak is close to death, conflicting previous state news agency reports that he was “clinically dead,” Egyptian military sources said in the early hours of Wednesday. The 84-year-old is said to have had a stroke and was moved from prison to life support in an army hospital, where he is
IAF aircraft struck six terror targets throughout Gaza on Tuesday night, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit announced in a statement. The statement said direct hits were identified and all aircraft returned safely to their bases. The attacks came in response to the barrage of rockets that were fired toward southern Israel by terrorists in
