Former Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak is in state of coma, a spokesman for Egypt's Interior Ministry said Monday. "Mubarak entered today into full coma. His two sons Gamal and Alaa submitted a request to the prison authority to move beside him and it has been accepted. His health has been deteriorating since the verdict,
Syria has the biggest chemical weapons stocks in the world and missiles and rockets that can reach any point in Israel, the Jewish state’s deputy military chief warned. Maj. Gen. Yair Naveh said if Syria had the chance, it would “treat us the same way it treats its own people.” Naveh’s remarks, made
U.S. computer security researchers said on Sunday that the Flame computer virus, which struck at least 600 specific computer systems in Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority, has gotten orders to vanish, leaving no trace. AFP reported that anti-virus company Symantec said in a blog post that late last
Democracy has allowed “thieves” to plunder and pillage Iraq, the secretary of Hizbullah said in an interview on Saturday, Al-Arabiya news reported. “The drawback of a democratic system is that it allows thieves to pillage what they want,” Wathiq al-Battat was quoted by the Cairo-based Al-Sharqiya News as saying. “We have yet to
Yasser Arafat’s former financial adviser, who was recently found guilty of embezzlement and sentenced in absentia, has revealed that Fatah has a secret bank account in Jordan with a balance of $39 million. Mohammed Rashid, who was the late Palestinian leader’s “moneyman,” said he has “all the necessary documents” to prove the existence of
Militants attacked two churches in northern and central Nigeria on Sunday, spraying the congregation of one with bullets and blowing up a car in a suicide bombing at the other, hundreds of kilometers away, witnesses said. There was no immediate word on casualties and no claim of responsibility, although attacking churches has become a
Up to 12 people were killed in a gunfight between members of two tribes from a southern Egyptian village sparked by a long-running row over land ownership, security sources said on Sunday. The fighting erupted on Saturday evening over which of the two tribes owned a piece of agricultural land near al-Hikma village in
Rebel battalions in Syria successfully took over a Presidential Air Force base near the village of Rantu in the Homs district, Saudi Arabian owned network Al-Arabiya reported Sunday. According to the report, most of the soldiers in the base defected from President Bashar al-Assad's army after the rebels took over. The rebels say
Arson is suspected in a chain of fires that erupted Sunday in at least five neighborhoods around the city of Jerusalem. All of the blazes were in the southeastern areas of the city that were restored to the capital in the 1967 Six-Day War. Flames were seen in the neighborhoods of Armon HaNatziv, Har
Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s health is in critical condition, with reports that he is slipping in and out of consciousness, a security official said on Sunday. Mubarak was sent to prison on June 2 to begin serving a life sentence after being found guilty of failing to stop the killing of protesters during
