U.S.-based Georgia Power is interested in joining Turkey’s nuclear power plant project, its Chief Executive Officer Paul Bowers announced on Friday, The Hurriyet Daily News reported. “Turkey wants to be independent in the energy arena. We can help them because we have been constructing nuclear power plants for the past 30 years,” Bowers told
Canadian school children taking Persian language classes, study from Iranian textbooks depicting Israelis as “apes,” news website Ynet News reported Saturday. Director of the International and Terrorist Intelligence Program at INSIGNIS Strategic Research Inc. David Harris said that textbooks issued by the Iranian Education Ministry were being used in public Canadian schools. “Ottawa
Deputy Minister Ayoub Kara said on Saturday that Israel would be willing to help treat casualties from the ongoing fighting in Syria. Speaking during a meeting with Druze youths in the Golan Heights, Kara said, “Israel is ready to receive casualties who would be evacuated from Syria to Israel and, alternatively, we are ready
Around 30 prisoners managed to escape an Afghan prison after Taliban gunmen attacked the jail, sparking clashes that left three inmates dead and 28 wounded, officials said Friday. A large explosion blew a hole in the wall of the prison in Sari Pul, capital of the northern province of the same name, shortly after
An Egyptian province cut off for years from the tourist trade by an Islamist insurgency is looking to a new president and the lure of an ancient heretical Pharaoh for a better future. Egyptians vote on June 16 and 17 in the concluding stage of an election to replace Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s leader for
Amid reports on the possibility of the release of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, currently serving a life sentence, on grounds of his old age, a prominent lawyer denied the presence of any such license in Egyptian law. There is no law or article in Egyptian prison regulations that allow the release of prisoners
Nine Turkish citizens were killed after they ambushed Navy commandos with knives and clubs, severely wounding several and kidnapping three until other commandos rescued them and overtook the ship. Erdogan has not forgotten the clash and still blames Israel, despite a United Nations report that Israel was within its right to try to stop
Egyptian economic and political analysts warned of the growing dangers of slum areas spreading across the country, especially what is commonly called the “explosive belt” around the capital Cairo. According to official reports, Egypt is home to 1,000 slum areas, 58 of which are located around Cairo in addition to another 67 that are
Egypt’s foreign reserves rose by $302 million in May, their second successive monthly increase, but the positive number may mask a continuing deterioration in Egypt’s finances, analysts and traders said. Foreign reserves climbed to $15.52 billion at the end of May from $15.21 billion at end-April, the central bank said. The reserves figure
IAF aircraft struck two weapons storage sites in northern and southern Gaza on Tuesday night, according to a statement by the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. The statement noted that direct hits at the targets were identified. All Israeli planes returned safely to their base. The attack came in response to high trajectory fire into
