Iraq already marred by high deficit is losing almost $27 million per day because of a budget delay, a member of the Shiite-dominated National alliance coalition said in a press conference on Saturday. “The National alliance coalition is insisting to issue Iraq’s budget as soon as possible,” the Iraqi news website Al-Sumaria reported the
Hagel, at Obama's bidding, plans to send troops to Judea andSamaria (the "West Bank") where they would soon be victims of Hamas terror. It's in writing. There is only one reason that Chuck Hagel was picked by President Obama to be US Defense Secretary, and why Obama will go nuclear to get him confirmed:
An Egyptian opposition group is using a novel way to protest against President Mohammed Mursi: sign him up for a chance to win a trip to space. The April 6 Youth Movement said on its official Facebook page on Thursday that it had entered the Islamist leader’s name in the online contest because it
Despite its deteriorating economic conditions, Egypt spent almost $2.6 million on 140,000 U.S.-sourced teargas canisters last January in a bid to face protests that erupted across the country against President Mohammed Mursi and the government. Egypt’s interior ministry ordered the amount by the end of January, reported The Guardian, referring to an earlier report
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) has warned fellow Republicans they will be held accountable if they vote to end an ongoing Senate filibuster over the nomination of embattled secretary of defense nominee Chuck Hagel, the Washington Free Beacon reports. “Make no mistake; a vote for cloture is a vote to confirm Sen. Hagel as Secretary
A Hizbullah terrorist working in Europe was told to track passenger flights from Israel to Cyprus, the New York Times reports based on testimony the man gave Thursday evening during his trial. Suspect Hossam Taleb Yaacoub reportedly contradicted earlier testimony and admitted that his handler had told him to track landing times for an
Iran has begun installing next-generation equipment at one of its main nuclear plants, a new International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report said Thursday. "On 6 February 2013, the Agency observed that Iran had started the installation of IR-2m centrifuges" at the Natanz plant, the report said, according to AFP. "This is the first
An Egyptian ultraconservative Islamist group was forced to cancel a planned “understanding of Islam” conference Friday in the ancient Egyptian temple of Abu Simbel, a major destination of foreign tourists, following wide criticism. The conference “What is Islam?” had been called by Endowments Minister Talaat Afify, also vice president of the Salafists Religious Commission
Egypt plans to invite an IMF mission to Cairo within a week, the government said on Thursday, flagging an early resumption of negotiations for a $4.8 billion loan as it struggles with an acute foreign currency shortage. Planning Minister Ashraf al-Araby said foreign investment had all but dried up, predicted a huge budget deficit
Special Advisor to Egypt’s Grand Mufti Dr. Ibrahim Negm denied on Thursday that the mufti Dr. Ali Gomaa issued a fatwa sanctioning the killing of opposition figures as claimed by ultra-conservative preacher Mohamed Ahmed Abdullah, also known as Abu Islam. The controversial Abu Islam stated Wednesday on the Islamist al-Umma channel, which he owns,
