Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi on Saturday renewed his calls for dialogue with the opposition in an attempt to ease deep political rifts ahead of planned protests calling for his resignation set for June 30. “I have said it before. I urge everyone to sit together to discuss what would achieve the interests of
Egypt’s largest opposition bloc on Saturday reached out to former members of the deposed president’s party, ahead of mass protests on June 30 demanding the ouster of his successor. The opposition’s move came a day after some 100,000 supporters of current President Mohammed Mursi, an Islamist and the country's first elected leader,
Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei on Saturday urged President Mohammed Mursi to step down ahead of planned anti-Mursi protests calling for the Islamist president’s resignation. During a press conference, ElBaradei said Mursi’s resignation will mark a new era, where another constitution is to be drafted to replace a current one drafted by Islamists.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned the international community not to be fooled by Iran’s new "moderate" president. Speaking to the Washington Post’s Lally Weymouth on Thursday, Netanyahu said that the elections in Iran “reflect a deep dissatisfaction of the Iranian people with its regime. Unfortunately, this result doesn’t have the power to change Iran’s
Syria activists reported a military offensive by regime forces against rebel strongholds in northern and eastern Damascus. “The district of Qaboon in (northeastern) Damascus is being intensely shelled by regime forces,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said according to AFP. Rebels were battling troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad on the edges of
Egypt’s airports will raise their alert level to “high” ahead of June 30 when opposition-backed protesters plan to demonstrate against President Mohamed Mursi, security officials said on Saturday. “An emergency plan will be put in place from June 28 until July 1,” the head of Cairo airport security, General Magdy al-Yussri, told reporters.
Protesters in Turkey say they are safeguarding liberties that are increasingly threatened under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “This protest is very important,” said Asgi, a leftist activist who joined the protests in Taksim Square. Like other activists, Asgi has been sleeping at the protest epicenter for days, and is ready to stay
Arab militiamen, government soldiers, rebels and villagers displaced by the fighting... all have traversed the arid orange-brown desert sands of Shangil Tobaya in Sudan’s troubled western region of Darfur. Its problems were evident beneath the wide open skies of this area between Darfur’s two main towns of El Fasher and Nyala, as foreign diplomats
Ahead of opposition protests planned for June 30, marking Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi’s first anniversary in power, the country’s prime minister said late Friday he was concerned by mounting calls for violence. Hisham Qandil, speaking in a midnight television program on state TV, warned that no one was above the law, while saying
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in Jerusalem that recent elections did not change the Iranian nuclear threat to the world. "The elections in Iran will be tested by whether Iran changes its policies and stops all enrichment, takes out the nuclear material and shuts down the
