Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has released an official Israeli response to the swearing-in of the Palestinian Arab "unity" government Monday, after he declared an emergency Cabinet meeting with top ministers to discuss the issue. Both Netanyahu and the ministers agreed not to engage politically with the new government, as part of the policy not
Saudi authorities are cracking down on social media, the Saudi Gazette reports Monday, and are in the process of reviewing the Anti-Cybercrime Law to allow legal proceedings to be filed against social networking sites for allowing accounts which promote adultery, atheism, and homosexuality. The Saudi Anti-Cybercrime Law was enacted by royal decree on March
A bomb attack targeting fans at a soccer match in Nigeria's restive northeast killed at least 40 people on Sunday, a police officer told AFP. "There has been a bomb explosion at a football field this evening and so far more than 40 people have been killed," the officer told the news agency.
Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar issued a rare public statement Sunday, according to BBC News, calling the US's exchange of Islamist terrorist prisoners for an American soldier a "big victory." "I extend my heartfelt congratulations to the entire Afghan Muslim nation," Omar said, in a video clip. The five Afghani Taliban prisoners
A Christian Sudanese woman sentenced to hang for apostasy will be "freed within days", a foreign ministry official told AFP Saturday, after her case triggered an international outcry. Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag was condemned to death on May 15 under the Islamic Sharia law that has been in place in Sudan since 1983 and
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday that Israel had threatened to cut ties with the PA if the PLO and Hamas formed a government of national unity, but added that he was prepared to respond to the threats. According to the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency, Abbas made the statements during a visit
