In an incident that brings back old mailing tools, a pigeon was found Sunday in Egypt’s northeastern city of Qalyubia with a written message tied to one of its feet and a microfilm attached to the other, a local newspaper reported. The Qalyubia Security Directorate said that a security guard called Saber Ibrahim filed
Syrian President Bashar Assad and his family have been living on a warship, with security provided by Russia, intelligence sources told Saudi newspaper Al Watan. The report has not been confirmed by other news sources. According to the report, the family and Assad's aides live on the ship, which is floating in the
Egypt's Court of Cassation on Sunday accepted an appeal for a retrial by former president Hosni Mubarak who was sentenced to life for his involvement in the deaths of protesters in 2011. Mubarak was convicted and sentenced to life in June for failing to prevent the killing of some 900 protesters during the 2011
Unknown attackers threw petrol bombs at tents housing protesters outside the Egyptian presidential palace in Cairo on Saturday, witnesses said. Several tents were set on fire and ambulances were driving away from the scene late on Saturday evening, according to Reuters. Protesters opposing an Islamist-backed constitution have been camped outside the residence of
Qatar said it doubled its deposits at Egypt’s central bank to $4 billion, helping ease a currency crisis as the Arab world’s most populous country waits to resume loan talks with the International Monetary Fund. Qatari premier Sheik Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani said those funds have been transferred, and $500 million of new grants
Egypt’s ousted president Hosni Mubarak was on Saturday questioned over gifts worth millions of Egyptian pounds allegedly received from the country’s flagship state newspaper, a judicial source said. Mubarak, who is already serving a life sentence for his involvement in the death of protesters during the 2011 uprising that toppled him, was ordered detained
About 3,500 Pakistani Shiites protested in southwestern Pakistan for a second day on Saturday, blocking a main road with dozens of coffins of relatives killed in explosions to demand better security from the government. Police in the city of Quetta had earlier said that the protest had ended, but a prominent Shiite leader Ibrahim
It's no secret that Iran has been supplying Hamas with weapons and rockets to use against Israel, but a special report by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center concluded just how deep the terror link between Iran and Hamas runs, and showed how Operation Pillar of Defense marked a major turning point in the relationship
More than 100 people including rebels and government soldiers were killed in Mali during French air strikes and fighting over the strategic town of Konna, Malian military sources and witnesses said on Saturday. An army officer at the headquarters of Mali’s former military junta in Bamako told Reuters “over 100” rebels had been killed,
An Egyptian court has ordered that a program hosted by a fiery preacher be suspended for libeling and defaming a well-known actress. The court on Saturday decided to suspend the program "In The Scale" for 30 days. A widely circulated video clip shows its host, Abdullah Badr, accusing well-known actress Elham Chahine of
