Egyptian authorities Saturday launched a nationwide search for a French woman reported missing when she failed to catch a connecting flight the day after she arrived in Cairo, officials told AFP. The 25-year-old arrived in Cairo from Ghana on Thursday evening and had been due to fly to Basel-Mulhouse airport in France on Friday,
Thousands of illegal foreigners, mostly unskilled workers from Asia, are rushing to leave Saudi Arabia before an amnesty expires on Sunday as they risk being fined or even jailed. Nearly a million Bangladeshis, Filipinos, Indians, Nepalis, Pakistanis and Yemenis, among others, have taken advantage of the three-month amnesty -- announced on April 3 and
Hakimullah Mehsud, the boyish-looking Pakistani Taliban commander who was killed Friday in a U.S. drone strike, was one of the world’s most wanted men with a $5 million bounty on his head. Charismatic and fond of the limelight, Mehsud led the al-Qaeda-linked Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to some of the most audacious attacks
Thousands of supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi demonstrated nationwide on Friday against the military-backed government ahead of his planned trial on Nov. 4. In Alexandria, where opposition outrage grew after the arrest of 21 girls taking part in a demonstration on Thursday, clashes erupted between anti and pro-military protesters, Al Arabiya
A shortage of fuel halted the production of electricity across the Gaza Strip on Friday, said the energy authority of the Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Palestinian enclave. “We have completely stopped the operation of [Gaza’s sole] power plant this morning at 6:00 am [4:00 GMT] because we don’t have a single liters
Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) has released a translated video showing the Palestinian Authority's celebration of the release of 26 murderers Tuesday night. In the segment, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas embraces the 21 murderers who were released to Ramallah. He later raises the hand of Issa Abed Rabbo, who murdered two Israeli students in 1984.
There was a massive explosion early Thursday morning at an aerial defense base near the city of Latakia in northeastern Syria, Walla reports, based on reports from the Syrian opposition. Opposition sources said the base, which held anti-aircraft missiles, was destroyed in the blast. Sources in Syria and Lebanon blamed Israel for the
Israel’s army arrested three senior members of the Islamist Hamas movement overnight, Palestinian security sources said on Thursday, in the second such arrest operation this week. The three men -- Jamal Tawil, Hussein Abu Kwayk and Faraj Romana -- were arrested in the West Bank city of Ramallah. All of them are senior
Foreign support for Syrian rebels must stop for peace to take place in the war-battered country, President Bashar Al-Assad told visiting UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on Wednesday, according to Al Arabiya. “The success of any political solution is tied to stopping support for terrorist groups and pressuring their patron states,” Syrian state television
Egyptian police entered the Al-Azhar University in Cairo on Wednesday to confront Islamist protesters, AFP reported. It was the first time security forces have moved on a campus since a 2010 court ruling. The police took the action at the prestigious Islamic university following a request from its administration, the interior ministry said.
