Epstein Secrets

recent Supreme Constitutio=al Court ruling that invalidated the election of a third of the parliament=148217;s members, continues. Former President Hosni Mubarak's health =eteriorated in recent weeks, adding to the tensions in the power struggle.=ln addition, secularists and liberals have again boycotted the Co

217;s members, continues. Former President Hosni Mubarak's health =eteriorated in recent weeks, adding to

, Tuni=ia, and Yemen: • On June 10, opposition groups i= Iraq lacked the necessary 163 votes to pass a no confidence motion=to oust Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki after 11 Members of Parliament (MPs)=retracted their signatures. Press reports indicated that the Iranian gover=ment had influenced the process, exe

fter a recent Supreme Constitutional Court ruling that invalidated the election of a third of the parliament's members, continues. Former President Hosni Mubarak's health deteriorated in recent weeks, adding to the tensions in the power struggle. In addition, secularists and liberals have again boycotted the

ent's members, continues. Former President Hosni Mubarak's health deteriorated in recent weeks, adding to

a, Tunisia, and Yemen: • On June 10, opposition groups in Iraq lacked the necessary 163 votes to pass a no confidence motion to oust Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki after 11 Members of Parliament (MPs) retracted their signatures. Press reports indicated that the Iranian government had influenced the process, ex

Sawiris, won about 14 percent of the vote. The secular but hardly liberal Wafd Party, which thrived as a corrupt, sanctioned opposition party under Mubarak, won about another 10 percent. So, at a stretch, a quarter of the voters in round one went for secular parties -- and this in Cairo, Alexandria, an

. Rather than decreasing sectarian tensions, Iraqi leaders appear to be pouring fuel on the fire. In recent weeks the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has arrested more than 600 alleged former EFTA_R1_02047578 EFTA02695901 21 Baathists who are suspected of plotting against the central governme

ed a camel honk. When I turned it over to see where it was manufactured, it read: "Made in China." Now that they have decided to put former President Hosni Mubarak on trial, I hope Egyptians add to his indictment that he presided for 30 years over a country where nearly half the population lives on $2 day and 20

and 20 percent are unemployed while it is importing low-wage manufactured goods — a stuffed camel, no less — from China. That's an embarrassment for Mubarak and America, which has donated some $30 billion in aid to modernize Egypt's economy over the last 30 years - and President Obama just promised a coup

ckwaves through Bahrain, Libya, Yemen and Syria. A closer look at the political scene in Baghdad, however, shows that all is not well. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is in hot water, like many of his Arab counterparts - and his government might collapse soon, if not through street power, then perhaps through the s