The International Maritime Bureau said on Monday that a French-owned oil tanker that went missing off the Ivory Coast over the weekend is believed to have been hijacked by Nigerian pirates, the International Maritime Bureau said on Monday. "The owner lost contact on [February] 3rd. We believe it was hijacked with 17 crew on
Egypt's former presidential Candidate Ahmed Shafiq told Al Arabiya TV in an interview on Sunday that the infamous dragging and beating of a naked old man near the presidential palace last week was previously planned by the interior ministry to terrorize the people. Shafiq, who lost the presidential race to Islamist President Mohammed Mursi
As an Italian citizen and a Catholic by marriage, I am writing to your Holiness on behalf of my human rights organization, Voice of the Copts. Our mission is to raise awareness in the West about the plight of the Egyptian Christians and their struggle against Islamic supremacy. Born into a Coptic family in Cairo,
United States Secretary of Defense-Designate Chuck Hagel proved two things when he stated under oath that "I support the president's strong position on containment [on Iran], as I have said." The first thing he proved was that that he was honest (that was until he was handed his "corrective" note, when he then proceeded
Egyptian media reported that security staff bribed the man now known as the “dragged protestor” to deny he was abused by security forces in Friday’s demonstrations in front of the presidential palace. According to several media outlets and social networking websites, interior ministry personnel bribed the 48-year-old Hamada Saber in order not to publicly
While Secretary of State-designate John Kerry’s nomination hearing last week was pretty much a lovefest (it was before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which he chairs), this week’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Chuck Hagel for Defense should be anything but. Setting aside his controversial past statements, there’s no shortage of pressing global
President Obama’s decision to choose Senator John Kerry as his next Secretary of State and its approval by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will prove to be a disaster for Israel. The choice of the American Jewish establishment to vehemently protest the expected nomination of former Senator Chuck Hagel while granting Kerry a free
The United Nations says Israel must withdraw all of its citizens from the regions of Judea and Samaria. The recommendation came in a report issued Thursday by the U.N. Human Rights Council, which has a history of passing numerous biased resolutions condemning Israel for various alleged ‘crimes’ each year. "Israel must, in compliance
A car bomb set off by a suicide attacker and followed by gunmen storming a police headquarters in the north Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killed 30 people and wounded 70 others on Sunday, a police general said. Militants had apparently sought to take control of the compound, but were unsuccessful, Brigadier General Natah Mohammed
Egypt’s main opposition group on Saturday backed calls to oust the ruling Islamists after deadly clashes and as President Mohammed Mursi scrambled to contain fallout from footage of apparent police brutality. The National Salvation Front said it “completely sides with the people and its active forces’ calls to topple the authoritarian regime and the
