AP INTERVIEW: ISLAMIST LEADER SAYS LIBYA PM FAILED
By MAGGIE MICHAEL FILE – In this Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013 file photo, Libyan’s Prime Minister Ali Zidan speaks to the media during a press conference in Rabat, Morocco. Zidan…
Religion and politics
EGYPT DECRIES US AID FREEZE, SAYS IT’S “INCORRECT”
By HAMZA HENDAWI FILE – In this Wednesday, April 24, 2013, file photo, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, second left, stands with an Egyptian army official before laying a…
QUEBEC SEEKS CURB ON RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS
By BENJAMIN SHINGLER Demonstrators take part in a protest against Quebec’s proposed “charter of values” in Montreal on Saturday Sept. 14, 2013. The plan by the ruling party, the separatist…
TRIAL DATE FOR MORSI STOKES EGYPT POLITICAL DRAMA
By SARAH EL DEEB FILE – In this Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 file photo released by the Egyptian Presidency, then Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, center, speaks with Minister of Defense,…
EGYPT GENERAL SAYS BROTHERHOOD WARNED OF VIOLENCE
By MAGGIE MICHAEL In this photo released by the Egyptian Presidency, Egypt’s interim President Adly Mansour, center, Defense Minister Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi, left, and other officials visit the Tomb of the…
EGYPT SAYS ATTACK IN SINAI WAS SUICIDE BOMBER
By SARAH EL DEEB Smoke rises from a security headquarters building in the southern Sinai town of el-Tor, Egypt, after a car bombing there on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Monday’s…
OVADIA YOSEF, RABBI AND ISRAELI KINGMAKER, DIES
By MARK LAVIE File – In this Dec. 5, 2002 file photo, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef sits surrounded by members of his staff during a rally of his Ultra-Orthodox Shas party…
EGYPT: 44 KILLED IN NEW BOUT OF STREET VIOLENCE
By i”>HAMZA HENDAWI Supporters and opponents of Egypt’s ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi clash in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013. Rival crowds of supporters of Egypt’s military and backers…