Mohamed Morsi‘s first appointments as president-elect of Egypt will be a woman and a Coptic Christian, his spokesman has told the Guardian, as he moves to allay fears of the Muslim Brotherhood. Sameh el-Essawy said that...
(multimedia) The UK’s top spy has warned that a new terror threat is brewing. The head of MI5 said the uprisings in the Middle East have created new militant training camps. Up to 200 extremists...
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King (R-N.Y.) has asked the Obama administration to explain why a member of a known terrorist group was allowed to enter the United States last week and participate...
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, says he expects future cooperation with Mohammed Morsi, the new Islamist president-elect of Egypt. In a meeting with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, Mr Netanyahu said: “We expect...
Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, Mohammed Mursi, has started forming a government, after promising to be a leader for all Egyptians. World leaders have congratulated the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate, who defeated ex-PM Ahmed Shafiq. Mr...
Egypt’s election officials have postponed announcing the results of the presidential runoff election. Sky News explains. “The authorities say the results won’t be for several days, because they need more time to study appeals. The move...
(Reuters) – Egypt’s political upheaval is by no means over, but its uneasy neighbor Israel is not waiting for the outcome. Desert defenses are being strengthened and strategy revised as a once stable relationship...
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak reportedly suffered multiple strokes and was being transferred to a military hospital, NBC News has learned. Mubarak’s lawyers told NBC News he needed to be stabilized before he was...
The Muslim Brotherhood has called for mass protests across Egypt to demonstrate against sweeping new powers taken by the ruling military council. Over the weekend, the generals issued two decrees dissolving the Islamist-dominated parliament...
KADUNA, Nigeria – At least 52 people were killed in religious rioting sparked by three suicide bombings against churches in northern Nigeria, where the dead were piled up on Monday in mortuaries and cemeteries...
