Reuters
By Reuters
-
Fast Forward 3 Dead as Egypt Army Opens Fire on Islamists
Security forces shot dead at least three supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi on Friday as a crowd of hundreds tried to march towards the military barracks in Cairo where he is being held by the military that overthrew him. Thousands of Mursi supporters demonstrated in cities across the country on what his Muslim…
-
Fast Forward Mohamed Morsi’s Islamist Supporters Plan Egypt ‘Friday of Rejection’
Islamist allies of Egypt’s ousted president, Mohamed Mursi, called on people to protest on Friday to express outrage at his overthrow by the army and to reject a planned interim government backed by their liberal opponents. In the Sinai peninsula near Israel, gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades at army checkpoints guarding an airport and rocketed a…
-
Fast Forward Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Happy at Morsi’s Ouster — Hamas Quiet
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas praised Egypt’s military on Thursday for toppling President Mohamed Mursi and his Muslim Brotherhood, the ideological ally of Abbas’s Hamas rivals. The fall of Mursi’s government deprived Hamas of a sympathetic neighbor, and may strengthen Abbas’s chances of nudging Hamas toward a long-delayed reconciliation and power-sharing pact. By intervening to remove…
-
News Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pumps Iron, Not Slowing Down at 80
At age 80, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, leader of the U.S. Supreme Court’s liberal wing, says she is in excellent health, even lifting weights despite having cracked a pair of ribs again, and plans to stay several more years on the bench. In a Reuters interview late on Tuesday, she vowed to resist any pressure…
-
Fast Forward Egypt Leader Adli Mansour Takes Power Amid Anti-Morsi Crackdown
Egypt’s prosecutor ordered the arrest of the Muslim Brotherhood’s leader on Thursday, widening a crackdown against the Islamist movement after the army ousted the country’s first democratically elected president. But Egypt’s new interim leader, Adli Mansour, used his inauguration to hold out an olive branch to the Brotherhood. “The Muslim Brotherhood are part of this…
-
Fast Forward On Morning After Coup, Israel Plays Wait-and-See in Egypt
Israel’s government avoided any show of satisfaction on Thursday over the ouster of Egypt’s Mohamed Mursi, an Islamist president who alarmed many in the Jewish state but quickly made clear he would not renege on a peace treaty. A spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined to comment on Mursi’s removal by the Egyptian army….
-
Fast Forward Celebrations Erupt in Cairo as Egypt Army Ousts Mohamed Morsi
Fireworks burst over Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the centre of protests against Mohamed Mursi, and across the Egyptian capital after the army suspended the constitution and appointed a new, interim head of state on Wednesday. “The people and the army are one hand,” protesters cheered in the square, amid the roar of horns and chanting, a…
-
Fast Forward Mohamed Morsi Says ‘Coup’ Underway in Egypt
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi’s national security adviser said a military coup was under way on Wednesday after an army deadline for the Islamist leader to yield to street protests passed without any agreement. In a show of force, several hundred soldiers with armoured vehicles staged a parade on a main road near the presidential palace,…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Fast Forward ‘Murdered for speaking truth’: Netanyahu and US Jewish leaders mourn Charlie Kirk
- 2
Fast Forward The fraudster at the center of an NBA scandal once proclaimed ‘tzedek tzedek tirdof’
- 3
News A new kaffiyeh policy is designed to help divided Jews pray together. Is this the Jewish future?
- 4
Opinion To save the Jewish state, pro-Israel Jews must break from Netanyahu
In Case You Missed It
-
Film & TV Forty years later, we need ‘The Golden Girls’ now more than ever
-
News Who was Horst Wessel, and why are people comparing Charlie Kirk to him?
-
Fast Forward Jewish lawmaker who shared stage with Jerry Seinfeld condemns his ‘Free Palestine’-KKK comparison
-
Opinion Hate is on the rise. But guns make Jews less safe, not more secure.
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
