America struggles with the new global realities
The situation is tragic, messy, ironic and dangerous. And everyone is fumbling to find the right response to the killing of the US Ambassador to Libya.
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The situation is tragic, messy, ironic and dangerous. And everyone is fumbling to find the right response to the killing of the US Ambassador to Libya.
There’s fear, there’s loathing, and there’s electoral politics. Top Republicans say President Obama’s foreign policy triggered the attacks on US diplomatic staff – calling it “disgraceful”.
Prime Minister David Cameron and US president Barack Obama agree that use of chemical weapons in Syria or even a threat to deploy them is “completely unacceptable”.
The deaths of 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team at the hands of Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Munich Games have overshadowed the security arrangements of every Olympics since.
In the final part of his series on fan culture, Andrew McFadyen looks at the role of football – and in particular Cairo’s Al Ahly club – in promoting and defending Egypt’s 2011 revolution.
Mohammed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader once jailed by ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak, succeeds him as president of the world’s most populous Arab nation.
Egyptians will have to wait until Sunday afternoon to learn who their new president is, as protesters say they fear the military is attempting to fix the result.
We should have known the name of the new Egyptian President today, but the election committee said it needed more time to investigate complaints from the two candidates.
Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is critically ill in hospital, according to military sources in the country.
Moves by Egypt’s military to limit the powers of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi, likely winner of the presidential election, may yet produce a more democratic Egypt, writes Jonathan Rugman.
‘As is frequently pointed out, the Greeks invented the words “catastrophe” and “crisis”.’
Despite the controversial dissolution of parliament, voting begins in presidential elections in Egypt. But what does the situation mean for the country’s transition process?
“In Tahrir Square itself the grass has died, and much youthful optimism with it.”
As Egypt prepares for presidential elections this weekend, activists claim that gains made during the revolution could be wiped out after a court ruling overturned last year’s parliamentary poll.
Former Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the killing of hundreds of protesters in the first court ruling since the start of the Arab Spring.