Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi said during a visit to Germany on Wednesday that he hoped for economic growth of 5.5 percent next year and of between 7 and 8 percent in subsequent years. Mursi, whose one-day visit to Berlin is aimed partly at reassuring Western investors about economic prospects for his crisis-racked country, also
A controversial Egyptian preacher and Islamist writer urged Wednesday President Mohammed Mursi to kill “thugs” and “criminals” who are burning the country otherwise people will do it by themselves. “I am saying this publically and I am inciting the killing of criminals; I say criminals; thugs, thieves, those who are burning the country and
A bomb exploded under a car in the south Beirut suburb of Hay al-Selloum late Monday night, the Now Lebanon website reported. There were no casualties and gunfire was heard in the area after the explosion, the report said. LBC television reported that the explosion targeted a Honda belonging to a man identified
In recent weeks the IDF has had to deal with the release of several video clips harmful to its image, including films taken by Arabs in Judea and Samaria showing soldiers appearing to run from rioters. In response, the army is bringing "combat documentary” onto the front lines. In recent exercises in the Kfir
The number of Israelis ordering gas masks has more than doubled in recent days, the Post Office reports. The increase comes in the wake of warnings from experts that Syria’s chemical weapons could fall into Hizbullah’s hands. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the defense establishment is following the latest deterioration in stability
Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi has delegated provincial governors in Port Said, Suez and Ismailia to ease or annul the state emergency procedures following a wave of violent unrest, Al Arabiya correspondent reported on Wednesday. Mursi late on Sunday sought to crack down on violence which has swept Egypt since Friday in which more than
An unpredictable new element has entered Egypt’s wave of political unrest: a mysterious group of masked young men called the Black Bloc who present themselves as the defenders of protesters opposed to the Islamist president’s rule. They boast that they’re willing to use force to fight back against Islamists who have attacked protesters in
Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel Fatah al-Sisi warned Tuesday that Egypt could be facing collapse. Al-Sisi explained that military units have been stationed in cities next to the Suez Canal, where riots have broken out, in order to protect the canal. "The continuing conflict between political forces and their differences concerning the management
Egyptian police shot dead one protester in the Mediterranean city of Port Said and another in Cairo on Monday as thousands of protesters continued to protest for the third day against President Mohammed Mursi. “A young man called Mohammed Gharib was killed by gunfire during clashes outside Arab police station in Port Said,” the
Egypt's senate on Monday ratified a law that would grant the armed forces powers of arrest, the official MENA news agency reported. According to the text the armed forces will "support the police in maintaining order and protecting vital installations. The army has also "be given powers of arrest according to the law", it
