Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has high hopes for the new Suez Canal construction — but critics fear it won't live up to the hype.
Experts say the new waterway is unlikely to meet Egypt's projections of higher traffic and increased revenue.
The accused man, identified only by his initials A.S., was sentenced to death by hanging after being convicted of spying for Israel.
"When will everyone realize Pres Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing? Clearly the Iranians have figured this out," Sen. Lindsey Graham tweeted.
"If the West and Iran come to a complete understanding and agreement on this issue, sanctions would be the first to be lifted," the editor of Iran Press newspaper said Wednedsay.
President Barack Obama defended the importance of the Iran nuclear deal Wednesday and attempted to counter intense criticism from opponents in the Republican-controlled Congress.
As Congress considers the nuclear deal, Israel's prime minister tried to convince American Jews to oppose it.
Israel jailed a suspected Jewish militant without trial on Tuesday, the first application of the controversial measure against a citizen in a government-ordered crackdown following the lethal torching of a Palestinian home.
Melanoma affects about 2 percent of Americans and is the leading cause of skin cancer deaths in the U.S.
The death of a teenager who was stabbed during an attack on a gay pride parade exposes "hotbeds of hatred and of homophobia," according to a Jerusalem-based LGBT activist.
The move is likely to upset Israel, which is home to many Russian Jews.
Friday's torching of a Palestinian home killed a toddler and seriously injured his parents and brother, causing an outcry abroad.
"Shira [Banki] was murdered for courageously supporting the principle that each and every person has the right to live their life in security and respect," Israel's PM says.
"What happened in Jerusalem goes against the spirit of (the Jewish) people," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
The confrontation was one of three in a matter of hours in which Palestinians died from Israeli-Palestinian violence on one of the most tense days in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip in recent months.
Palestinians will lodge a complaint against Israel at the International Criminal Court over the killing of an 18-month-old baby, Mahmoud Abbas said Friday.
Yishai Shlissel, accused of stabbing six people at Jerusalem's annual gay pride parade, said he refused to accept the Israeli government's legitimacy.
An 18-month-old baby, identified as Ali Saad Dawabsheh, died when his house was burned down by suspected Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank.
Israel reportedly carried out airstrikes in Syria and Lebanon and warned of carrying out attacks in the Sinai Peninsula.
The suspect is believed to be the same man responsible for an attack on a gay pride parade in Israel 10 years earlier.
Israel carried out a series of "disproportionate or otherwise indiscriminate attacks" on civilians in the Gaza border town of Rafah, Amnesty claims in a new report.
Yousef Al-Qaradawi said that he had previously endorsed the use of suicide bombers only by those living under Israeli occupation.
