Blasts near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed two people and injured 22 others Monday, Boston police said. Authorities did not say immediately what caused the explosions, CNN reported. Massachusetts General Hospital said it was treating 19 injured people; Tufts Medical Center reported that some injured were to be treated there
At the Italian office of Europe's Parliament in Rome, Via Quattro November, near the seat of Italy's President of the Republic, Marwan Barghouti has been hailed as a liberator. Several Italian politicians and members of Europe's Parliament took part in a rally asking for the freeing of the Palestinian Arab mastermind of the Second
"Since our inception as a people, we had to fight for our freedom and our existence," Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said at a Sunday afternoon ceremony at Beit Yad Labanim in Jerusalem, marking the start of Memorial Day for the IDF's Fallen Soldiers. "Today, too, there are those who threaten to annihilate us --
Egypt's central bank has conducted an exceptionally large foreign exchange auction, selling $600 million to banks that urgently need money to pay for basic imports like wheat and materials for industry and medicine. The central bank said in a statement Sunday that the auction was aimed at encouraging the banking sector to bolster the
A Palestinian Authority resident teenager managed to enter the Israeli town of Kochav Yaakov in the Binyamin region late on Saturday night. The teen managed to come within a few hundred meters of a populated area before he was intercepted by security forces. He was unarmed, and told soldiers that he had come with
Egypt’s Prosecutor General Talaat Abdullah said President Hosni Mubarak must be transferred to Tora prison and not to be sent back to the military hospital where he was staying, Al Arabiya correspondent reported on Saturday. Abdullah, who was appointed as the country’s new prosecutor general by President Mohammed Mursi despite the opposition’s disapproval, requested
At least forty Hezbollah fighters and Syrian soldiers have been killed in recent clashes with opposition fighters in the strategic town of al-Qusayr in Homs province, activists said on Saturday. In clashes with Syrian troops in Qusayr, the opposition fighters described on Friday what they called the “biggest intervention” by Lebanese militant movement, Hezbollah,
The highly anticipated New York trial of Osama bin Laden's son-in-law could be delayed because his court-appointed lawyers have been hit by U.S. budget cuts, they said Monday. Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan called the revelation that a package of United States federal government cuts known as the sequester could imperil a start to the
Egypt, which is in need of foreign currency, is relaxing its rules on how much cash air travelers can bring into the nation. Egyptian airport officials say that beginning Saturday passengers will be allowed to declare more than $10,000 in foreign currency upon arrival, but still won’t be allowed to leave with more than
Turkish police have uncovered and foiled an alleged plot by Al-Qaeda to bomb the United States embassy in Ankara, as well as a synagogue and other targets in Istanbul, Turkish media reported on Friday. As a result of a February raid in Istanbul and the northeastern city of Corlu, police had arrested 12 people,
