Saudi Arabia said on Friday it had approved $430 million in project aid to Egypt and would allow Cairo to use a $750 million line of credit to import oil products. The aid, to be provided by the Saudi Fund for Development, is part of a package that Saudi Arabia announced a year ago
Members of the International Israel Allies Caucus Foundation met in Washington, D.C., this week and called on the United States to recognize Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel, CBN News reported. Several Jewish and Christian leaders, as well as pro-Israel lawmakers, attended the group's Jerusalem Day celebration on Capitol Hill, which took place
The spokesman for the Greek neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, Ilias Ksidiaris, is wanted for arrest following a brawl on live television Thursday, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported. Ilias Ksidiaris threw a glass of water at female MP Rena Douru from the left-wing Syriza party before striking Liana Kanelli, an MP from the communist KKE
Belgian prosecutors on Thursday charged a high-profile Islamist radical with stoking hatred and violence during racial disturbances in Brussels last week. According to AFP Fouad Belkacem, a 30-year-old Belgian man of Moroccan origin, was picked up at at his family home in the northern city of Antwerp early Thursday morning, and was placed in
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that Al-Qaeda is still a serious and imminent threat, and is spreading geographically. "The core of Al-Qaeda that carried out the 9/11 attacks may be on the path to defeat, but the threat has spread, becoming more geographically diverse," Clinton said ahead of a counter terrorism
An Algerian man has died after setting himself ablaze in protest when a policeman took away his driver’s license in the Mascara region, the El Watan Week-end newspaper reported Friday. The 36-year-old victim, named only by his initials A.A., had third-degree burns when he was admitted Wednesday to hospital in the city of Oran,
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's condition has deteriorated so much that doctors at the Cairo prison where he is serving a life sentence had to constantly administer oxygen to him overnight, security officials said Thursday. The officials at Cairo's Tora prison told The Associated Press that the 84-year-old Mubarak is suffering breathing problems, high
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has begun posting Internet advertisements offering training for suicide bombers to target the U.S., Israel and France. Volunteers are asked to get in touch via e-mail with details about their own experience and proposed targets, and were posted on a variety of jihadist forums, including al-Fida'a, Shmoukh al-Islam and
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused major world powers on Wednesday of looking for ways to “find excuses and to waste time” in talks over Tehran's controversial nuclear program. “Iran is ready to pursue negotiations in Moscow, and even in Beijing, and has made good proposals,” Ahmadinejad said in the Chinese capital, according to AFP,
Four men who planned a shooting spree at the office of a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed were found guilty of terrorism Monday and sentenced each to 12 years in prison. The three Swedish nationals and one Tunisian living in Sweden had pleaded not guilty to the terrorism charges, but
