Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak may be released from prison in three weeks’ time, the country’s Justice Minister Ahmed Mekki said on Sunday. Mubarak's conviction over his responsibility for the murder of demonstrators in Tahrir Square in 2011 was overturned two months ago, and a date for a new trial has been set. However,
The United States has quietly unblocked almost $500 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority which had been frozen by Congress for months. An announcement of the renewed aid to the PA was made by a top U.S. official on Friday, shortly after President Barack Obama concluded his visit to Israel and the PA.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has begun to push for a resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) after meetings with the two sides, PA officials told AFP on Sunday. "Kerry began the U.S. administration's real intervention," a high-ranking official told AFP on condition of anonymity. "The U.S.
Egypt’s Islamists on Sunday blocked access to the media production zone in Cairo in protest against what they said was media bias against ruling Islamist President Mohammed Mursi. Al Arabiya correspondent reported that security forces have used teargas to disperse protesters. Clashes had erupted earlier between protesters supporting President Mursi and security forces outside
The Egyptian state prosecutor decided on Sunday to extradite to Libya two former regime officials wanted on charges of corruption, a judicial source told AFP. Former Libyan ambassador Ali Maria and Mohammed Ibrahim, the brother of senior Qaddafi-era official Ahmed Ibrahim, were arrested in Cairo on March 19 along with Muammar Qaddafi’s cousin Ahmed
A day after Israel apologized to Turkey over the Mavi Marmara incident, its Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday that he will visit Gaza. “I may eventually visit Gaza and the West Bank in April. This visit would take place in the context of a general effort to contribute to the resolution
The Hizbullah terrorist group on Friday slammed U.S. President Barack Obama's demand that nations list it as a terrorist organization, AFP reported. The group said Obama spoke like "an employee of the Zionist entity." "He speaks like an employee of the Zionist entity (Israel) and not the highest-ranking official in the administration of
Islamic extremists infiltrated and attacked the northern Malian city of Gao, the mayor and residents said late Saturday. It was the third major attack on the town since it was liberated by French forces in January. The assault indicates that the radical Islamists remain entrenched and able to attack despite the thousands of French
Syrian gunmen opened fire on an IDF position in the Golan on Sunday morning in the second attack of its kind in 24 hours. IDF soldiers responded with heavy fire, scoring a direct hit on the position from which the fire originated. No soldiers were hurt. On Saturday night gunfire from the Syrian
While the United States believes that the Palestinian Authority is ready for statehood, and that PA leaders would be successful stewards of an independent state, no progress will be made in negotiations to reach that goal unless “the two sides are willing to think outside the box and get out of some of the old
