A Missouri politician who was a local campaign manager for Obama claimed that no Jews died in the 9/11 attacks, then relectantly apologized. Bangladesh native MD Rabbi Alam ['Rabbi" is part of his full name] said in a discussion on the topic “Was 9/11 a conspiracy” that September 11, 2001 was an “official holiday
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court said on Tuesday it had overruled President Mohammed Mursi’s decision to recall the Islamist-led parliament that was dissolved by the country’s generals last month. The decision is expected to raise tensions between Mursi, the top court and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) which handed over power to
Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court froze on Tuesday a presidential decree reinstating the Islamist-led parliament, hours after the lower house convened in defiance of the judiciary and military. “The court ordered the freeze of the president's decree,” AFP quoted a judicial source as having said, adding that it “ordered that its previous ruling be implemented.”
Egypt’s Islamist-led parliament reconvened on Tuesday in an open challenge to the generals who dissolved the assembly last month, stirring up tensions with the military just 10 days into Mohammed Mursi’s presidency. Parliament Speaker Saad al-Katatni, who like Mursi hails from the Muslim Brotherhood, which has the biggest bloc in parliament, opened the session
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas has approved the exhumation of late PLO arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat's body. Abbas' approval comes days after scientists in Switzerland said they found high levels of the radioactive element Polonium-210 on some of Arafat's personal belongings. However, the scientists were careful to point out that their conclusions, in of
Israel should annex Judea and Samaria and put an end to the Palestinian Authority’s “salami system” of taking land, according to government coalition leader Ze’ev Elkin, a Likud Knesset Member. “For the past twenty years we have been discussing what we should give and why. The time has come for a completely different discussion.
At least 115 people, including a federal senator and a state parliamentarian, have been killed in central Nigeria in the last two days with herdsmen from the Fulani tribe besieging and raiding Christian villages near conflict-prone Jos city, prompting violent clashes. Those killed today were attending the funeral of 63 other people killed earlier
It is difficult for Taliban terrorist brutality to shock the world, but it managed to outdo itself with a video of the shooting a woman nine times in the back for alleged adultery, while 150 men cheered. WARNING: The video below shows violence and is
Egypt’s highest court insisted Monday that its ruling to invalidate the Islamist-dominated parliament was final and binding, setting up a showdown with the country’s newly elected president after he ordered lawmakers to return. The announcement on state TV came a day after President Mohammed Mursi recalled the legislators, defying the powerful military’s decision to
Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has reminded the president-elect, Mohamed Mursi, of its own powerful position in the country. The military issued a statement saying it expects all state institutions to respect the constitution – a barely-disguised warning to the newly-elected Muslim Brotherhood member. The move followed a decision by
