The chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee slammed the State Department on Thursday over a report that officials who were said to have resigned over the attacks in Benghazi are still on the payroll. “This is unbelievable, the American people should be outraged at this, because it is pathetic, it is disgraceful, it
A gang of Arabs brutally attacked an American yeshiva student visiting with his family in Venice, Italy, in what local community leaders said was a rare instance of anti-Semitism. The student was knocked unconscious on Tuesday when he strolled late at night in the center of the city. A band of 15 Arab youth
Hamas will spend $897 million in Gaza in 2013 under a budget approved Monday. The Gaza parliament, dominated by Hamas, voted for the spending. Gaza leaders estimate the income for the year at $243 million. The rest of the money is expected to come from international aid and donations. Despite claims of a
Egypt’s opposition National Salvation Front, along with other civil and revolutionary forces, planned a sit-in in front of the Constitutional Court on Tuesday as judges hear cases on the Shura Council and Constituent Assembly. The opposition’s plan came out of fear that the court would be encircled by Islamists, repeating last December’s scenario, when
Egypt's state prosecutor ordered on Tuesday an investigation into a claim that popular satirical show host Bassem Yousef insulted President Mohamed Morsi, a judicial source said. On his show Al-Barnameg (The Program), Youssef, dubbed the Egyptian Jon Stewart, had poked fun at the ruling Islamists and Morsi's temporary adoption of extensive powers in November
An improvised bomb exploded outside the headquarters of the public prosecutor in the Libyan city of Benghazi causing material damage but no fatalities, a security source said Monday. “Initial evidence suggests the device was a suitcase packed with high yield explosives (TNT),” an investigator at the scene told AFP, adding that there were no
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas expressed hope on Monday that the coming year would see the implementation of a Palestinian state, AFP reports. Lighting a torch in the grounds of his Ramallah headquarters to start the celebrations of the 48th anniversary of his Fatah movement, he spoke of last month's United Nations vote upgrading
Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi said Monday that the country’s currency situation will “balance out within days,” stressing that the record fall of the pound “does not worry or scare us.” Mursi made the remarks during a meeting with Arab journalists on Sunday evening, MENA said. Egypt's central bank said it was offering to
A nun sounded the alarm that the Syrian conflict was becoming sectarian when she said that a Christian man was beheaded by Syrian rebels in the northern town of Ras al-Ayn on the Turkish border, and his body was fed to dogs, a British newspaper reported Monday. Sister Agnes-Mariam de la Croix speaking from
Egypt’s pound fell further at the central bank’s second auction of foreign currency under its new regime on Monday, with $74.8 million sold to banks at a cut-off price of 6.3050 Egyptian pounds. This was weaker than the Sunday cut-off price of 6.2425. The pound fell on the interbank market to a record
