A tense calm has descended on the Egyptian capital, Cairo, following a night of deadly protests, but anger against Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year-old presidency is continuing to simmer.
CAIRO, (PIC)– News sources in Egypt said that the Israeli embassy personnel fled the embassy when a group of demonstrators passed near the Cairo University at the Geeza suburb.
Egypt is on edge as activists pressing for a change in government prepare to stage the biggest day of protests in the Middle East’s most populous nation amid a security clampdown.
Argentina has introduced new legislation to help integrate its Muslim population by allowing Muslim women to wear headscarves in public at all times and in all identity photographs.
GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian factions meeting in Gaza Tuesday agreed the people are not obliged to recognize the outcomes of unauthorized negotiations that compromised a shocking amount of Palestinian rights.
Two civilians and a police officer have died after a wave of unusually large anti-government demonstrations swept across Egypt, calling for the ouster of longtime president Hosni Mubarak.
A judge has sentenced the first Guantanamo detainee to have a US civilian trial to life in prison, saying anything the Tanzanian man suffered at the hands of the CIA and others “pales in comparison to the suffering and the horror” caused by the bombing of two US embassies in East Africa in 1998.
RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Unrest engulfed Ramallah Monday after Al-Jazeera TV had released incriminating documents that angered Fatah leaders.The documents exposed Palestinian negotiators who forfeited over the past two decades an unprecedented amount of Palestinian land and rights.West Bank security officials have gone on a state of alert in preparation of expected clashes.
At least 35 people have been killed and more than 150 injured in a blast at Moscow’s busiest airport, health officials said.The explosion at Domodedovo airport, in the southeast of the Russian capital, occured on Monday afternoon inside the airport’s international arrivals hall near the baggage area.
Russia will soon launch a Muslim television channel in the hope it will foster tolerance after the capital saw some of the worst clashes since the fall of the Soviet Union.