Can America afford four more years of Barack Obama as President of the United States? In the most literal terms, probably not: his reckless deficit spending can’t be sustained indefinitely, and as he has campaigned on a platform of more free goodies for everyone, it won’t be much longer before the gravy train runs out.
An Egyptian school teacher received a six-month suspended jail sentence on Tuesday for cutting the hair of two 12-year-old girl pupils who were not wearing Islamic headscarves, a judicial source said. Iman Abu Bakr Kilany, a science teacher who herself wears a niqab - a veil that also covers her face - said last
The United Nations on Tuesday condemned fighting by Syrian forces close to a Golan Heights ceasefire line with Israel as a new threat to stability in the region, AFP reported. UN spokesperson Martin Nesirky was quoted as having said a mortar shell and a tank round fired from the Syrian side of a ceasefire
A Turkish court on Tuesday began what Israel calls an in absentia "show trial" of former IDF Chief of Gabi Ashkenazi and three other former senior military officers over the 2010 clash with the terror-linked IHH organization. The prosecutors are demanding multiple life sentences that would amount to 18,000 years in jail for the
Israel’s biggest-selling daily newspaper claimed on Monday that President Barak Obama sent a “personal emissary” to a series of secret meetings in recent months with Iranian officials. The Times of Israeli reported from another daily, Yedioth Ahronoth, that the emissary is Obama’s special adviser Valerie Jarrett. The newspaper described Jarret, 55, as “a
Syrian security forces on Monday shut down all the offices belonging to Hamas in the country, Al-Jazeera reported. Despite previously being close allies, there has been a rift between Hamas and the Syrian regime ever since the uprising against President Bashar Al-Assad began. In the first months of the uprising, Hamas’ leaders expressed support
The new Coptic Orthodox pope said on Monday that a constitution being drafted by Egypt’s politicians must be inclusive and the church would oppose any text that only addressed one part of the Muslim-majority nation. Pope Tawadros II, picked on Sunday in a ceremony steeped in the traditions of a church that predates Islam’s
Tunisian viewers were taken shocked when a Salafi cleric called upon Muslim youths to carry out jihadist acts against the government in a live TV show this week. Tunisian analysts warned of the consequences of a growing militant discourse that has prevailed after the revolution. Nasr al-Din al-Alawi, a Salafi cleric and imam,
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu promised on Monday that by the time his next term as Prime Minister is over, Iran will not have a nuclear weapons program. Speaking to Channel 2, Netanyahu said that if it is necessary, he will lead an independent Israeli attack against Iran, even without the support of the United
A Russian nuclear-powered attack submarine sailed within 200 miles of the U.S. East Coast, defense officials told the Washington Free Beacon. The report follows by three months a similar revelation by the newspaper that a Russian nuclear sub patrolled the Gulf of Mexico undetected for more than a month. The submarine off
