The new pope of Egypt’s Orthodox Coptic church has been enthroned. Pope Tawadros II, 60, was elected earlier this month, but the televised official enthronement ceremony was held Sunday at the Coptic cathedral in Cairo. He replaced Shenouda III, who died in March after leading the ancient church for 40 years. Egypt’s Christians
Israeli air strikes killed 10 Palestinians and destroyed the Hamas government building on Saturday as the Jewish state called up thousands more reservists for a possible ground war. “The cabinet headquarters was targeted with four strikes and the government stresses that it remains committed to its positions and its stand alongside the people,” the
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi said on Saturday there were “indications” that Hamas and Israel could reach “a ceasefire soon.” “There are some indications that there could be a ceasefire soon,” Mursi said at a joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, adding that there were still “no guarantees.” Arab ministers
Al-Qaeda-linked fighters gathered reinforcements in the tense Gao region of northeastern Mali on Saturday and waited to see if the Tuareg rebels that launched a failed offensive a day earlier would regroup for a fresh assault. The desert area of Gao has been a focus of Islamist and Tuareg activity since the once-allied fighters
British authorities reluctantly released terror suspect Abu Qatada on bail Tuesday after judges ruled that the radical cleric seen in the past as Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe should not be extradited to Jordan, AFP reported. Several hours after the Islamic preacher was released from the high-security Long Lartin prison in central
Top United States General Carter Ham urged a global fight against the Al-Qaeda terrorist group based in Africa on Wednesday, saying it could "export violence" to the West, AFP reported. Ham, the head of the U.S. Africa Command, reaffirmed the suspicion that the Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) was linked to the deadly September
Seventy-five years ago, in November 1938, the Nazis rampaged through Nazi Germany, and parts of Austria, murdered 91 Jews, arrested another 30,000 Jews that were packed off to the gas chambers, and left streets covered in Jewish glass. It was called Kristallnacht, just a fancy way of saying it was a pogrom to murder Jews.
Thousands of Palestinian Authority Arabs rallied across the PA-assigned areas of Judea and Samaria on Friday, urging Hamas to "bomb Tel Aviv", AFP reported. More than 1,000 protesters gathered in central Ramallah, shouting slogans of support for Gaza's Hamas rulers, and waving the movement's green flag, the report said. "Hamas, bomb Tel Aviv!"
The IDF deployed its fifth Iron Dome anti-missile battery to protect the Tel Aviv area Saturday, and the battery went into action immediately, intercepting a rocket fired from Gaza. A second rocket fired at the greater Tel Aviv area was not intercepted, however. It struck an empty area, causing no casualties or damage. Terrorists said
Islamic countries must close ranks and respond to Israel’s deadly attacks on the Gaza Strip, Iran’s Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Saturday. “Putting an end to the Zionist (Israeli) regime’s crimes is only possible through a united, revolutionary retaliation by the Muslim world,” Vahidi said in remarks carried by the official IRNA news
