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Attacks surge in Egypt, a day after deadly clashes
A string of attacks killed nine members of Egypt's security and military forces and hit the country's main satellite communications station Monday, in an apparent retaliation by Islamic militants a day after more than 50 supporters of the ousted president were killed in clashes with police. The attacks show a ...
Post-coup Egypt gripped by nationalist fervor
While riots turned the neighborhoods of Cairo into deadly battlegrounds this weekend, Egypt's most powerful man — the head of the armed forces — enjoyed a star-studded show. In a sports stadium, celebrities and pop singers lavished praise on the military in a televised extravaganza complete with dancers and an ...
Death of Israeli kingmaker leaves huge void
To his supporters, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef was a revered spiritual sage who empowered masses of disenfranchised Sephardic Jews. Among secular Israelis, he was widely perceived as a medieval figure, bedecked in flowing robes and occasionally given to bizarre rants. But through his control of the Shas political party, Yosef wielded ...
Egypt's president makes first trip to Saudi Arabia
Egypt's interim president visited Saudi Arabia on Monday for his first foreign trip, highlighting a regional realignment spurred by the military ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood from power in Cairo. Underscoring the tightening of relations between the two regional powerhouses, Adly Mansour was greeted in Riyadh airport by the kingdom's ...
Supreme Court term begins amid government shutdown
The Supreme Court began its new term Monday by turning away hundreds of appeals, including Virginia's bid to revive its anti-sodomy law. The justices took the bench just past 10 o'clock on the first Monday in October, even as much of the rest of the government was coping with a ...
Extremists gun down 7 civilians in Nigerian mosque
Gunmen believed to be Islamic militants lured Muslims with a call to prayer and gunned them down as they entered the mosque in Damboa village in the latest killings reported in an Islamic uprising in northeast Nigeria, residents and officials said. The tactics used by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network ...
Gobble tov! American Jews ready for Thanksgivukkah
It's a turkey. It's a menorah. It's Thanksgivukkah! An extremely rare convergence this year of Thanksgiving and the start of Hanukkah has created a frenzy of Talmudic proportions. There's the number crunching: The last time it happened was 1888, or at least the last time since Thanksgiving was declared a ...
Court: Ohio hospital can force chemo on Amish girl
An appeals court has sided again with an Ohio hospital that wants to force a 10-year-old Amish girl to resume chemotherapy after her parents decided to stop the treatments. The court ruled that an attorney who's also a registered nurse should be granted limited guardianship over the girl, Sarah Hershberger, ...
Pope replaces Dominican ambassador amid sex probe
Pope Francis has named a new ambassador to the Dominican Republic after the previous one was forcibly removed amid a sex abuse investigation. The nomination Monday of a replacement for Archbishop Josef Wesolowski signaled that the Vatican's investigation into his actions warranted permanent removal as envoy to the Caribbean country. ...
Egypt: 51 killed in new bout of street violence
Security forces and Islamist protesters clashed around the country Sunday, leaving 51 killed, as a national holiday celebrating the military turned to mayhem. Crowds from Egypt's two rival camps — supporters of the ousted Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, and backers of the military that deposed him — poured into the ...
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