Dozens of Egyptian police officers disobeyed orders and stormed a superior’s office in the capital, shut down a security directorate in the north and went on strike in the south in a new round of protests Sunday that threaten to unhinge the country’s already weakened security force. It was the year’s third wave of
Cash-strapped Egypt has not received the promised $3 billion loan from Qatar, Al-Ahram newspaper quoted Egypt’s Minister for Planning and International Cooperation, Ashraf Al-Arabi, as saying on Sunday. Negotiations are still underway on the interest rate of the $3 billion bonds Egypt intends to buy from Qatar, Arabi said, adding interest rates that are
To see Sana'a’s Old City for the first time is like “a vision of a childhood dream world of fantasy castles,” a visitor once remarked, but official neglect and unruly construction are threatening to destroy that magic. Yemen’s capital is one of the most ancient cities in the world, and entering its oldest quarter
“Bahiya ya Masr,” or “Beautiful Egypt,” a group advocating women’s rights, is planning a sit-in on Sunday to protest the Egyptian Information Minister’s “sexist” comments towards two female journalists. Salah Abdul Maksoud, angered many Egyptians after he told a female reporter to “come to my office and I will show you how,” as she
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi has invited senior figures from the judiciary to discuss a crisis triggered by proposed reforms that would push out thousands of judges, state media said on Saturday. Islamist lawmakers have put forward a bill that would force out more than 3,000 judges by lowering the retirement age, causing a revolt
Israel is facing an existential threat far greater than anyone could have ever imagined and difficult to ignore. On the contrary, it would even be foolish to assume that Israelis and Jews living overseas are safer - when Iran becomes a nuclear capable state. An overwhelming majority of Israelis believe that the Iranian nuclear
Kerry despises Israel’s attempts to protect itself. CASSIUS: Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face? BRUTUS: No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things. (Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare) One could opine that United States Secretary of State John Kerry was on
Egyptian police arrested 12 members of the “Black Bloc” -- a violent group opposed to the Muslim Brotherhood -- after clashes outside Cairo's presidential palace, the official MENA news agency said Saturday. Protesters hurled rocks and fire bombs at the walls of the presidential palace in Heliopolis, and torched a police vehicle, a security
Suspected Al-Qaeda militants killed five Yemeni soldiers in an attack on Saturday on a checkpoint southeast of Sanaa, an official said, while two assailants were reportedly killed. The attack targeted an army checkpoint in the district of Rada, where the interior ministry said late Friday it mounted security measures following intelligence about possible attacks
A gun battle between security forces and Islamist insurgents in Nigeria a week ago killed 228 people, a local senator said on Saturday, putting the death toll six times higher than the government's estimate. A large number of civilian deaths will fuel accusations that the military acted heavy-handedly and failed to protect bystanders and
