CAIRO -- The Egyptian business and political world are in throws after last weeks arrest of construction tycoon Hisham Talaat Mustafa in connection with the brutal murder of Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim in Dubai this past July.
Every now and then a headline will appear in our favorite newspaper about refugees fleeing Somalia because the countrys Islamists have mounted yet another attack in their campaign to take over Mogadishu and bring down its shaky government.
EDITORIAL
When the founders of Facebook, a popular Internet social network, launched their site on the World Wide Web, little did they realize that the demons they would unleash from this electronic Pandoras Box would help plan the potential abduction of Israeli soldiers by Shiite militias.
OPINION
The best news from Israel right now is that the ceasefire with Hamas is holding. This may be disquieting to the far right. It is an article of faith for the right that it is impossible to cut a deal with Hamas. But that is precisely what Israel did when, seeing no alternative, it agreed to the ceasefire. Hamas has demonstrated that it can end the violence when it wants to and that it can enforce peace and quiet.
On Sept. 6, the New York Times published a story by Sophia Kishkovsky titled "Conflict Tests Ties Between the Georgian and Russian Orthodox Churches." The author explains the struggle and sorrow experienced by Orthodox leaders of the two respective churches over the recent military engagement between Russia and Georgia.
