Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas announced on Monday that the PA will present its bid for non-state UN membership, despite U.S. and Israeli opposition, AFP reported. Following talks with Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi in Cairo, "it has been agreed that the request will be presented on November 29," Abbas told reporters, calling for
A series of apparently coordinated bombings across Iraq on the eve Wednesday of a Muslim festival marking the Islamic new year killed 15 people and wounded dozens, security and medical officials said. The early-morning blasts -- five car bombs and a roadside bomb -- struck in Baghdad and three other cities, and will likely
Arab terrorists Wednesday attacked the south with four Katyusha rockets either from the Sinai or from Gaza through the Sinai. No one was injured, and no property damage was reported, but at least one missile exploded between homes. One of the rockets was fired towards the community of Bnei Netzarim without causing any injuries,
Government officials in Brussels, Belgium banned Wednesday a popular Christmas tree exhibit out of concerns that the local Muslim population found it “offensive.” An “electronic winter tree,” will take the place of the traditional Christmas Tree and Nativity scene at the city center of Grand Place, reports Brussels News. The electronic sculpture will
Security authorities in Cairo have found Zahraa al-Bughaishi, one of the female bodyguards of former Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi, stabbed to death in her apartment in Nasr City, amidst speculations that “honour” was probably the motif behind the killing. Bughaishi was found slain in her apartment, according to her sister, who said that the
IAF aircraft conducted several airstrikes in Gaza on Monday night, hitting at least three targets. According to a statement by the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, the aircraft struck two rocket launching sites in northern Gaza and a weapons storage site in central Gaza. The attack, noted the statement, is a response to the continued rocket
U.S. President Barack Obama told Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday that his administration opposes his bid for non-state membership of the UN, both sides said, according to an AFP report. "There was a long telephone conversation between president Mahmoud Abbas and Barack Obama," Abbas’s spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP. "Obama
Former Egyptian Finance Minister Samir Radwan warned of a severe financial crisis to hit the country if serious steps are not taken to salvage the collapsing economy. “Foreign investment in Egypt is now at zero percent,” he told Al Arabiya. “In fact, investment outside Egypt has reached two billion dollars.” Radwan said the
Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti issued a religious edict prohibiting Arabs from contacting or cooperating with foreign media outlets seeking to “spread chaos and strife in Muslim lands”, Al-Arabiya reported. Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh told worshipers during a Friday sermon held in a mosque in the capital Riyadh that people should not contact foreign media
An Egyptian jihad leader, with self-professed links to the Taliban, called for the “destruction of the Sphinx and the Giza Pyramids in Egypt,” drawing ties between the Egyptian relics and Buddha statues, local media reported this week. Murgan Salem al-Gohary, an Islamist leader twice-sentenced under former President Hosni Mubarak for advocating violence, called on
