A British journalist was brutally sexually assaulted in Cairo's Tahrir Square as thousands of Egyptians gathered to celebrate the nation's presidential election results. Natasha Smith, 21, has detailed how she was violently attacked by a 'group of animals' who stripped her naked, scratched and clenched her breasts and 'forced their fingers inside her'. She
The US Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama's attempt to overhaul America's healthcare system. The decision means the massive healthcare intiative, popularly called ObamaCare, which is still only partly in effect, will proceed and pick up momentum over the next several years. The
A Texas court has convicted a Saudi Arabian national of plotting to build and use a bomb in an attack against America's south. The 22-year-old terrorist, Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari entered the United States in October 2008 from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia legally on a student visa to study chemical engineering at Texas Tech University in
Two bombs exploded outside the Palace of Justice in central Damascus on Thursday, wounding three people, according to Al Arabiya reports and Syrian state television. “Two bombs exploded in the car park of the Palace of Justice in the al-Marjeh district of Damascus. A third did not explode,” the television said, describing the bombings
The IDF is preparing for a “new era” on Israel's southern border, which actually is a rewind of history back to the days before the Camp David Accords. With the rise of what appears to be a hostile regime in Egypt, the IDF will be beefing up forces all along the Sinai border, and is
Turkey is deploying troops along its border with Syria after one of its jets was shot down by Syria over the Mediterranean last week, a Turkish official said on Thursday. “I can confirm there are troops being deployed along the border in Hatay province. Turkey is taking precautions after its jet was shot down,”
Egypt’s armed forces chief will keep his post as defense minister in a new cabinet to be formed by President-elect Mohamed Mursi, a member of the military council said. Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, 76, who served as defense minister for two decades under ousted leader Hosni Mubarak, will keep his post after Egypt’s first
The United States on Wednesday condemned an attack on a pro-government television station in Damascus which killed seven staff members in the latest development of an uprising against the Syrian regime. “We condemn all acts of violence including those targeting pro-regime elements,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said, while rebuking President Bashar al-Assad for
NATO on Tuesday firmly backed Turkey saying Syria’s shooting down of a Turkish jet was “unacceptable,: NATO’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen condemned the incident saying, "We consider this act to be unacceptable and condemn it in the strongest terms…It is another example of the Syrian authorities' disregard for international norms, peace and security,
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry said Wednesday it had told Israel that it would not be “appropriate” for Israeli pilgrims to make an annual visit to the tomb of a 19th-century Jewish holy man in the Nile Delta. Egypt notified Israel two months ago that it would be “impossible to hold the annual ceremony because of
