A court in Egypt has sentenced 79 supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi to jail terms of between five and 10 years. Citing Egyptian judicial sources, reports said on Wednesday that “11 defendants were given 10 years in jail, 13 were jailed for seven years, 55 were jailed for five years and seven acquitted.” The…

Anger is boiling in Turkey over the government’s handling of a deadly coal mine explosion in the country’s western city of Soma. Tensions were high as a large number of relatives and miners gathered outside the mine’s entrance on Wednesday. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived at the site of the mining disaster that…

The US Department of State has refused to deny recent reports which said Israel’s espionage activities in the United States have “crossed red lines.” Earlier this month, Newsweek reporter Jeff Stein stirred controversy by writing two scathing articles about Israel’s espionage activities in the US which he described as “unrivaled and unseemly,” citing US intelligence…