The European Union agreed on Monday to put the armed wing of Hezbollah on its terrorism blacklist, a move driven by concerns over the Lebanese militant group\’s involvement in a deadly bus bombing in Bulgaria and the Syrian war.
Ahmed Abu Hamda, a journalist and producer in the Gaza Strip, had some work to do in the morning. But as happens frequently in Gaza, there was an electricity blackout because the area’s sole power plant is running low on fuel.
The United States declined on Wednesday to criticize Egypt\’s military, even as it was ousting Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi from power.
Egypt\’s leading Muslim and Christian clerics backed an army-sponsored roadmap on Wednesday which suspended the constitution and called for early presidential and parliamentary elections.
Anti-government protesters responsible for Turkey\’s worst riots in years are \”arm-in-arm with terrorism,\” Prime Minister Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, in a defiant response to four days of unrest in dozens of cities across the country.
Pesach – the Hebrew name for Passover– comes from the Hebrew root PSH which means to skip over, to pass over. It appears first in the context of the ten plagues, in which God skipped over the homes of the Israelites while the rest of Egypt suffered.
A swarm of locusts that descended on Egypt has begun to cross into southern Israel.
Belgium saw a 30-percent increase in the number of anti-Semitic complaints filed in 2012, according to a government agency.
Bulgaria reportedly expelled a group of Hamas lawmakers who were visiting from the Gaza Strip.
Knesset members pressed Israel\’s justice minister for answers on \”Prisoner X,\” who was identified in an Australian TV report as an Australian-born Israeli who worked for the Mossad and died in an Israeli prison.
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