Egypt’s top Islamic body on Thursday called on President Mohammed Mursi to suspend a decree in which he claimed sweeping powers and demanded an unconditional dialogue between the president and his opponents. The Al-Azhar institution said Mursi should “suspend the latest decree and stop using it,” in a statement a day after deadly protests
Tens of thousands of Egyptian demonstrators encircled the presidential palace on Tuesday, after riot police failed to keep them at bay with tear gas, in a growing crisis over President Mohammed Morsi's decree widening his powers. {youtube}NvSRr7YLef8{/youtube} The protesters cut through barbed wire a few hundred meters from the palace, prompting police to fire
Engineers working for President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime in Syria have begun combining the two chemical precursors needed to weaponize sarin gas, an American official with knowledge of the situation told Wired.com’s Danger Room on Monday. International observers are now more worried than they’ve even been that the Damascus government could use its nerve agent
French police on Tuesday arrested two alleged accomplices of gunman Mohamed Merah, whose Al-Qaeda-inspired shooting spree in and around the southern city of Toulouse earlier this year left seven people dead. A man, identified as Charles Mencarelli and described by police as a member of the traveller community, was arrested at his home in
Several Egyptian newspapers on Tuesday suspended publication to protest both the recently issued presidential decrees and the draft constitution, some of them carrying dramatic front pages headlined "No to Dictatorship." Al Ahram Online reported that 12 Egyptian newspapers will not go to print and five TV channels will go off air Tuesday. Some of
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday they downed another American spy drone hours after reports that the United States stepped up spying on the Bushehr nuclear plant. The Guards captured a ScanEagle drone over the Persian Gulf waters upon its intrusion into the Iranian airspace, Iran’s regime-controlled Press TV and Fars News Agency reported.
Egypt’s top court said on Sunday it has suspended its work indefinitely to protest “psychological pressures,” while Egyptian judges refused to oversee a referendum due in less than two weeks on a controversial new constitution drafted by an Islamist-dominated panel. The move by Supreme Constitutional Court and the Judges Club sharply upthe stakes of
President Morsi’s leadership is analogous to the pharaohs of ancient Egypt, at least in the eyes of his opposition figure ElBaradei. He meant it as an insult to Mr. Morsi in light of the Presidents greed for power. Truthfully, it is an insult to world history but no worse than claiming Mr. Morsi is a
Hundreds of Islamists marched towards the High Constitutional Court (HCC) in Cairo on Saturday night, ahead of a Sunday court session expected to issue a ruling on the Constituent Assembly’s legality. Supporters of President Mohamed Mursi spent the night outside the Constitutional Court headquarters building in Cairo, as the court is scheduled on Sunday
The head of the European parliament on Saturday called for a cessation of the bloc’s political and economic cooperation with Egypt following its Islamist president’s move to expand his powers. “The European Union must make it clear that there can be no political nor economic cooperation without pluralist democracy in Egypt,” Martin Schulz told
