Violence flares after Egypt election results
CAIRO (AP) — A mob set fire late Monday to the campaign headquarters of one of the two Egyptian presidential politicians facing each other in a runoff that will decide a new leader after...
Category: Africa
Presidential vote polarizes Egyptians
(Reuters) – Millions of Egyptians, choosing their leader freely for the first time in their history, voted on Thursday in a fraught contest between Islamists and former officials of President Hosni Mubarak who was...
Israel becomes a target in Egypt’s presidential vote
(Reuters) – Israel has become a punchbag for politicians vying for votes in Egypt’s presidential race, playing on popular antipathy in Egypt towards its neighbor, but the realities of office are likely to ensure...
US Leads Major War Drill in Jordan – Israel Not Invited
The United States is leading what it described as the “largest militaryexercises in the Middle East in 10 years” in Jordan on Tuesday. Eager Lion 2012 “is the largest exercise held in the region in...
Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood rise from the ashes
(Reuters) – At a meeting of Syria’s opposition, Muslim Brotherhood officials gather round Marxists colleagues, nudging them to produce policy statements for the Syrian National Council, the main political group challenging President Bashar al-Assad....
Dozens Killed in Nigerian Market Attack
(multimedia) A massacre in a village in northern Nigeria, and authorities suspect a group with alleged ties to Al Qaeda may have been involved. Estimates of the final death toll have varied, The International Business...
Gunmen fire on Nigeria cattle market, 56 dead
(Reuters) – Gunmen set off explosives and fired on a cattle market in remote northeastern Nigeria overnight, killing at least 56 people, a nurse who received bodies in the local hospital said on Thursday....
The IDF has issued emergency call up orders to six reserve battalions in light of new dangers
The IDF has issued emergency call up orders to six reserve battalions in light of new dangers on the Egyptian and Syrian borders. And the Knesset has given the IDF permission to summon a...
16 killed in attack on Catholic worship service at Nigeria university
KANO, Nigeria – An official with the Nigerian Red Cross says at least 16 people were killed in an attack on church services at a university campus in the country’s north. Andronicus Adeyemo said...
Obama Admin: The war on terror is over
Today, the National Journal reported that a senior State Department official has announced, “The war on terror is over.” “Now that we have killed most of al Qaida,” the source said, “now that people have come...
