In New York the, ‘Occupy Wall street’ protest group took to the streets again for the second time in twenty four hours. One section of the demonstration attempted to cross the traffic lanes of the Brooklyn Bridge prompting the police to move in. More than 700 were arrested as they brought traffic to a standstill […]
Egyptian protesters have broken into the Israeli Embassy in a high-rise building in Cairo and are dumping hundreds of Hebrew documents off the balcony. Hundreds of protesters have been converging on the embassy throughout the afternoon and into the night, tearing down large sections of a security wall outside the 21-story building housing the embassy. […]
The annual Al-Quds Day events were held on August 26, not just in Iran and other Arab/Muslim countries, but in other countries around the world as well. Al-Quds Day has been marked since 1979, as decided by Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian government, on the last Friday of the Ramadan month in order to express […]
In a sign Yemen’s ruling party has no intention of giving up power in the near future, the prime minister convened the Cabinet for the first time since the June 3rd assassination attempt that nearly claimed the lives of President Ali Abdullah Saleh and his inner circle. Ali Mohammad Mujawar, who returned to Yemen last […]
Large scale protests / pop concerts dominated by secular Israelis are being held in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem and will include free performances by well known artists. The protesters demand “social justice” and a more equitable economy but their exact demands are not clear. According to an investigative report by Maariv‘s Kalman Libeskind, the […]
The laughable propaganda coming out of the Iranian regime aimed at the British authorities’ handling of recent riots has descended to even more embarrassing levels. Not content with publicly criticizing UK police “brutality” and “human rights abuses”, Iran has published photos of the riots to illustrate their point. Or have they? The Guardian reports: Iranian […]
London is reeling from three nights of rioting that’s poured hundreds of people into the streets, leaving several local neighborhoods in shambles. One man is dead, dozens injured and arrested. The protests have now spread to other cities, with violence reported in parts of Birmingham, Liverpool and Bristol. Great Britain and other parts of the world […]
LONDON — The gritty Muslim packed north London neighborhood of Tottenham exploded in violence Saturday night after a young immigrant man was shot to death by police in during a gunfight. Two patrol cars, a building and a double-decker bus were torched to a crisp as Muslim immigrant rioters clashed with officers in front of […]
Tens of thousands of Egyptians poured into Tahrir Square on Friday for a day that had been billed as one of unified protest against the interim military government. But the turnout was lopsided, dominated by members of religious movements, ranging from the most conservative, the Salafists, to the relatively more radicalized Muslim Brotherhood. According to […]
A video shows Syrians soldiers allowing protesters to board their tanks, but the army killed 40 more demonstrators the past two days and crushed an attempt in a Damascus suburb to from a shadow government. The video was taken in eastern Syria Saturday. [youtube pN5vV8TBS9w nolink] The spread of violence to the capital may be […]
