A mother pleads for Britain’s help in freeing son from Egyptian prison, one day of hunger at a time
But as she slumped in a folding chair outside the gates of the British prime minister’s office on day 129 of a hunger strike, ...
The New York Times11d
‘Her Opening Line Was a Home Run’: The Best and Worst Moments From the Tulsi Gabbard Hearing
It’s true: Gabbard generally approves of war on Islamic extremists but criticizes war against anyone oppressing Islamists (Hosni Mubarak, Bashar al-Assad, Muammar el-Qaddafi). This is her ...
UPI9d
On This Day: U.S. Supreme Court meets for 1st time; no quorum
In 2011, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, with hundreds of thousands of protesters demanding his departure after a reign of nearly 30 years, announced he wouldn't seek re-election. In 2012 ...
AZ Central11d
Here's what Sen. Mark Kelly asked Tulsi Gabbard in her high-stakes confirmation hearing
“A regime-change war in Syria, much like the regime-change wars in Iraq, the toppling of (former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi) and (former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak), while these are ...
City Journal27d
Zuckerberg Opts for Free Speech—After Thinking It Over
The street insurgency that overthrew Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, for example, was coordinated on Facebook. An organizer, Wael Ghonim, posted on the platform an invitation to a January 2011 ...
Mum ‘prepared to die’ after 130 days of hunger strike for imprisoned son
Laila Soueif, 68, has been sitting outside 10 Downing Street for 130 days on a hunger strike. She is a mother who is trying ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs26d
Syria detains Egyptian after videos threatening Egypt's Sisi
The militant, Ahmed al-Mansour, has posted several videos saying Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi would meet the same fate as Assad. "Revolutionaries of January 25" video, with Ahmed al ...