French police commandos arrested 19 people suspected of radical Islamist activity in Friday morning raids in several cities including Toulouse, scene of the killings of seven people by an al Qaeda-inspired gunman earlier this month. President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is waging an uphill battle for re-election, said more raids would follow. "There will be further operations, allowing us to expel a number of people who have no business in the...
06:31 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Cairo: Islamists are poised to further consolidate their overwhelming lead in the second phase of Egyptian parliamentary polls, as millions headed to polling booths on Wednesday to decide the future of nine governorates, in the first landmark elections since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. Voting has been relatively peaceful, with no major irregularities reported. Egypt's moderate Islamists - the Muslim Brotherhood - emerged as the largest force in the first...
08:10 PM, Dec 14, 2011
Cairo: After the final voters cast their votes in the first elections after the Egyptian revolution, counting has begun late on Tuesday night. The results are expected to be announced for individual candidates today and the political lists after the final phase of election is over in February next year. The counting of votes was being televised by the state television for the first time. So far, the Freedom and...
06:20 AM, Nov 30, 2011
Cairo: Egypt's military rulers were quick to take credit on Tuesday for a strong turnout in the first elections since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, a vote that appeared to be the country's freest and fairest in living memory. The military did not field candidates in the parliamentary vote. But winning bragging rights for a smooth, successful and virtually fraud-free election would significantly boost the ruling generals in their bitter struggle with...
02:53 AM, Nov 30, 2011
Cairo: Egyptians voted on Tuesday in a parliamentary election that Islamists hope will sweep them closer to power, even though the army generals who took over from President Hosni Mubarak have yet to step aside. The election, the first since a revolt ousted Mubarak on February 11, unfolded without the mayhem many had feared after last week's riots against army rule in which 42 people were killed. General Ismail Atman,...
01:14 AM, Nov 30, 2011
Alexandria: Egypt's first parliamentary elections since the fall of Hosni Mubarak brought the political debut of a potentially powerful new player on the scene, the ultraconservative Islamist movement known as the Salafis. At several voting stations in this Mediterranean coastal city on Monday, Salafis packed the lines as early as 7 am, an hour before the polls opened, clearly distinguishable by the long, moustache-less beards of the men and the...
04:03 AM, Nov 29, 2011
Baghdad: Two suicide car bombers and a car bomb hit police in separate districts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people and wounding around 60, interior ministry and police sources said. One bomber rammed an explosives-filled car into a police station in central Alwiya district, killing 6 people including four policemen, and another bomber blew up his car outside a police building in northwestern Hurriya...
01:03 PM, Oct 12, 2011
Amman: A number of Jordanian activists staged protests in front of the Egyptian embassy in Amman to express their support for the Egyptians who have taken to the streets demanding the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak since the last few days. Dozens of demonstrators on Saturday, including trade unionists, Islamists and members of political parties, raised slogans on Saturday against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and called on him to step...
12:37 PM, Jan 30, 2011
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