Western diplomats said on Thursday that it appears as though Tehran is in its final stages of placing centrifuges in the underground uranium enrichment facility at Fordow. The diplomats, who spoke to the Reuters news agency, noted that for some unknown reason the new centrifuges have not yet been activated. The sources said
A gunman killed during a police raid on an apartment in northern Cairo is suspected of involvement in a deadly attack last month on the U.S. consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi, police said Thursday. Various media reports meanwhile suggested that the man who died in Wednesday’s raid was a Libyan citizen who
Syrian rebels battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad have shoulder-launched missile systems, including U.S.-made Stingers, Russia’s top general claimed Wednesday, prompting a strong denial from Washington. Russian chief of staff General Nikolai Makarov, whose country is the Damascus regime’s top arms supplier and has refused to back the opposition, said it was not
Business has flourished for Cairo’s store owners and itinerant street traders since a popular uprising ushered in 20 months of light-touch law enforcement, but the boom-time may soon be over. A new government desperate to break with the administrative chaos that followed Hosni Mubarak’s overthrow says it will enforce a national ban on late-night
An American unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was hovering over the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11 during the attack in which bloodthirsty Al Qaeda-linked terrorists murdered Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others. The military backup that should have been racing to the scene, launched in response by those monitoring the Predator drone
They call him Cool Barry and No Drama Obama, but President Barack Obama appears to be losing his nerve in the final fortnight of the race for his second term. Obama is quoted in an interview for Rolling Stone using the expression "bull****ter" regarding his opponent, Mitt Romney. In the interview, presidential
Sudan said on Wednesday that four planes had bombed a weapons factory in Khartoum the previous night, blaming Israeli for the surprise raids. “We think Israel did the bombing,” Sudan’s Culture and Information Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman Sudan said on Wednesday that four planes had bombed a weapons factory in Khartoum the previous
Sudan on Wednesday demanded that the UN Security Council condemn Israel after it accused the Jewish State of carrying out an air attack on a Sudanese weapons factory, AFP reported. According to the report, Sudan's UN envoy, Daffa-Alla Elhag Ali Osman, also accused Israel of involvement in the Darfur conflict. Sudan claimed that
Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi said on Wednesday that Egypt does not accept nor can turn a blind eye to any aggression against Palestinian Authority Arabs, the state-owned news agency MENA reported. “We don’t accept that people of Palestine are besieged,” Morsi was quoted as having said during an Endowments Ministry celebration of Preachers’ Day.
Israel's Heron UAV has passed its latest flight test, a long-range mission across the Andes. The drone, produced by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), performed the demonstration last month using satellite communications for control and activation, the firm said. During its flight, the Heron carried a synthetic aperture radar payload, electro-optical/infrared sensor and a communications
