Egypt’s Mohammad Mursi’s English language skills came into question once again, after the recently elected President seems to have misinterpreted a phone conversation with his American counterpart, Barack Obama. A spokesman for the Egyptian president claimed in a recent report that U.S. President Barack Obama told Mohammed Mursi in a phone interview that he
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will stress the importance of Egypt reaching an agreement with the IMF supported across the country’s political spectrum when he visits Cairo, a senior U.S. official said on Saturday. The official said if Cairo could agree on a $4.8 billion loan from the IMF, this would bring in
A bipartisan group of senators on Thursday introduced a new resolution which says that the United States would back Israel militarily if the Jewish State were to attack Iran in self-defense. The resolution was introduced by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and is co-sponsored by 15 Senators, including Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey), Marco Rubio
The Simon Wiesenthal Center decried UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s silence at a UN conclave in Vienna as Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan charged that Zionism is "a crime against humanity," lumping it together with racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. “We witness very frequently the alienation of the ‘other’ in various countries instead of efforts
For the first since the end of the IDF’s Pillar of Defense counterterrorism operation, Gaza-based terrorists opened fire on Friday afternoon towards the Shaar Hanegev region in southern Israel. No one was hurt but a military vehicle belonging to a commander of the IDF’s Gaza Division sustained damage. While Friday’s incident was the
Egypt’s finance ministry sent a proposal to the country’s antiquities ministry to consider offering key monuments, including the pyramids, to international tourism firm as a quick solution to generate funds needed to overcome the financial crisis, an official has said. Rumors about the proposal, which some described as preposterous, have circulated online for weeks.
An Algerian newspaper reported the country’s authority has carried out DNA tests to confirm the reported death of al-Qaeda’s senior figure fighting in the northeastern of Mali. ‘The security services are comparing DNA taken from two close relatives of Abu Zeid with samples taken from the remains of a body supplied by French forces”
Spain’s Supreme Court has overturned the city of Lleida’s ban on women wearing full-face veils - such as burqas or niqabs - in public buildings, citing religious freedom and saying the city's argument of security concerns was unfounded. In its ruling, dated Feb. 14 and made public on Thursday, the court said the ban
A dance craze that began in an Australian teenager’s bedroom landed on the doorstep of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Thursday, with dozens of protesters doing the “Harlem Shake” outside the ruling Islamists’ Cairo headquarters. Around 70 protesters, mostly men, performed the dance after chanting slogans against the Islamists, who had propelled President Mohamed Mursi to
The United States is training and equipping Syrian opposition forces in their war to oust President Bashar al-Assad, according to a report published by The New York Times. Obama administration officials were quoted by the newspaper on Wednesday as saying the U.S. intends to offer the armed rebels non-lethal assistance and equipment for the
