Iran has about 18,000 centrifuges, including 10,000 active ones, the outgoing head of the country's atomic agency said Saturday, according to the AFP news agency. The comments confirmed figures from the UN watchdog overseeing its disputed nuclear drive. "At the beginning of the month of Mordad (from July 23) we had 17,000
As Egypt's Cabinet sat in an emergency session Sunday and mulled the option of outlawing the Muslim Brotherhood, the commander of the armed forces, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, said the government would not "kneel” in the face of violence. The country's Interim Foreign Minister, Nabil Fahmy, said meanwhile that while Egypt is grateful for
Egypt’s army has no intention of seizing power and the country is for “everyone,” including Islamist supporters of deposed President Mohammed Mursi, military chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in a speech on Sunday. “There is room for everyone in Egypt,” Agence France-Presse quoted Sisi as saying when he addressed military and police
Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy insisted the interim government had not abandoned the path to democracy amid a deadly crackdown on opponents, in an interview to be published Monday. Fahmy, a former ambassador to the United States, told German news weekly Der Spiegel that Egypt’s military leaders were unlikely to extend a month-long
After torching a Franciscan school, Islamists paraded three nuns on the streets like “prisoners of war” before a Muslim woman offered them refuge. Two other women working at the school were sexually harassed and abused as they fought their way through a mob. In the four days since security forces cleared two
The European Union's top diplomat, Catherine Ashton, on Friday said she had asked the 28-nation bloc to agree "appropriate measures" in response to escalating violence in Egypt, AFP reported. "The toll of death and injury is shocking," Ashton said in a statement. "I have asked member state representatives to debate and coordinate appropriate measures
Egypt’s prime minister has proposed disbanding the Muslim Brotherhood of ousted President Mohamed Mursi, the government said on Saturday, raising the stakes in a bloody struggle between the state and Islamists for control of the country. Live television showed a gunman firing at soldiers and police from the minaret of a central Cairo mosque,
Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) may have just restarted but, according to the head of the United Nations, “Palestine” already exists. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who arrived in Ramallah on Thursday to meet PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, was quoted by AFP as having said upon his arrival that he was pleased
A Sunni Islamist group took credit on Thursday for the car bombing in a Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut which killed at least 20 people. Shortly after news of the attack broke, an online video surfaced showing three masked men, two of them holding rifles, in front of a white flag inscribed with the Islamic
At least 173 people have been killed across Egypt in the last 24 hours, the government said on Saturday, after clashes between security forces and protesters. The deaths came after supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammad Mursi took to the streets after Friday prayers for nationwide demonstrations that quickly triggered violence. Egyptian police
