Egypt’s opposition National Salvation Front, along with other civil and revolutionary forces, planned a sit-in in front of the Constitutional Court on Tuesday as judges hear cases on the Shura Council and Constituent Assembly. The opposition’s plan came out of fear that the court would be encircled by Islamists, repeating last December’s scenario, when
Egypt's state prosecutor ordered on Tuesday an investigation into a claim that popular satirical show host Bassem Yousef insulted President Mohamed Morsi, a judicial source said. On his show Al-Barnameg (The Program), Youssef, dubbed the Egyptian Jon Stewart, had poked fun at the ruling Islamists and Morsi's temporary adoption of extensive powers in November
An improvised bomb exploded outside the headquarters of the public prosecutor in the Libyan city of Benghazi causing material damage but no fatalities, a security source said Monday. “Initial evidence suggests the device was a suitcase packed with high yield explosives (TNT),” an investigator at the scene told AFP, adding that there were no
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas expressed hope on Monday that the coming year would see the implementation of a Palestinian state, AFP reports. Lighting a torch in the grounds of his Ramallah headquarters to start the celebrations of the 48th anniversary of his Fatah movement, he spoke of last month's United Nations vote upgrading
Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi said Monday that the country’s currency situation will “balance out within days,” stressing that the record fall of the pound “does not worry or scare us.” Mursi made the remarks during a meeting with Arab journalists on Sunday evening, MENA said. Egypt's central bank said it was offering to
A nun sounded the alarm that the Syrian conflict was becoming sectarian when she said that a Christian man was beheaded by Syrian rebels in the northern town of Ras al-Ayn on the Turkish border, and his body was fed to dogs, a British newspaper reported Monday. Sister Agnes-Mariam de la Croix speaking from
Egypt’s pound fell further at the central bank’s second auction of foreign currency under its new regime on Monday, with $74.8 million sold to banks at a cut-off price of 6.3050 Egyptian pounds. This was weaker than the Sunday cut-off price of 6.2425. The pound fell on the interbank market to a record
President Barack Obama admitted Sunday that a probe into the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya had uncovered a "huge problem" in security procedures at the mission. "We're not going to be defensive about it," Obama said in an interview recorded on Saturday for NBC's “Meet the Press.” "We're not going
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry says an explosion at an Egyptian Coptic church in Libya’s third largest city, Misrata, has killed two people and wounded two others. The statement by the Foreign Ministry says Sunday’s explosion killed two Egyptian citizens working at the church in preparation for traditional New Year’s Eve mass. Egypt’s ambassador visited the
Al Qaeda terrorists in Yemen offer $160,000 in gold for killing the US ambassador, three months after the US envoy to Libya was murdered. The US State Dept. presumably will take the matter more seriously than it did when senior officials ignored events leading up to the brutal killing of Christopher Stevens on September
