Egypt's foreign ministry summoned Canada's charge d'affaires in Cairo on Monday, over Foreign Minister John Baird's controversial visit to eastern Jerusalem to meet an Israeli minister last week. According to a report in AFP, Egypt’s foreign ministry expressed its "astonishment" at Baird's visit and demanded "a clarification of the reasons for convening the meeting
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz said in an interview broadcast Tuesday on Voice of Israel public radio that the IDF has the ability to act on its own against the Iranian nuclear program. In response to a question, Lt. Gen. Gantz said that there are ongoing deliberations between the political echelon
Hizbullah is continuing to assist Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in his fight against the rebels. Over 1,000 members of the Lebanese Shiite terrorist group entered Syria in the past few days via waterways in the Mediterranean Sea, the Saudi daily Al-Watan reported on Sunday. According to the report, around 1,200 fighters arrived at Syria's
Blasts near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed two people and injured 22 others Monday, Boston police said. Authorities did not say immediately what caused the explosions, CNN reported. Massachusetts General Hospital said it was treating 19 injured people; Tufts Medical Center reported that some injured were to be treated there
At the Italian office of Europe's Parliament in Rome, Via Quattro November, near the seat of Italy's President of the Republic, Marwan Barghouti has been hailed as a liberator. Several Italian politicians and members of Europe's Parliament took part in a rally asking for the freeing of the Palestinian Arab mastermind of the Second
"Since our inception as a people, we had to fight for our freedom and our existence," Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said at a Sunday afternoon ceremony at Beit Yad Labanim in Jerusalem, marking the start of Memorial Day for the IDF's Fallen Soldiers. "Today, too, there are those who threaten to annihilate us --
Jordanian police said on Sunday they found the burned body of a pregnant woman whose throat had been slit and belly cut open showing her four-month-old fetus, in an apparent “honor killing”. “We found the body of the woman at dawn in Ruseifeh (east of Amman). Her throat was slit in a hideous way.
Egypt's central bank has conducted an exceptionally large foreign exchange auction, selling $600 million to banks that urgently need money to pay for basic imports like wheat and materials for industry and medicine. The central bank said in a statement Sunday that the auction was aimed at encouraging the banking sector to bolster the
A Palestinian Authority resident teenager managed to enter the Israeli town of Kochav Yaakov in the Binyamin region late on Saturday night. The teen managed to come within a few hundred meters of a populated area before he was intercepted by security forces. He was unarmed, and told soldiers that he had come with
The Jewish community in New York is protesting a recent attempt to silence Jewish activist Pamela Geller, who holds lectures in which she warns against the dangers of Islam and jihad which are spreading in Europe and the U.S. Geller is co-founder of the American Freedom Defense Initiative and has been at the forefront
