Egypt

From the moment our flag was lowered at the Tomb of Süleyman Shah on Sunday, the honorable breakdown of our foreign policy, which has been imposed on us as ?honorable loneliness,? is as follows:

PM condemns acts of terror targeting Egyptians

BELGRADE -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met on Monday with Egypt's Ambassador to Serbia Menha Mahrous Bakhoum and condemned the attacks on Egyptian citizens in Libya.

The ambassador stressed the support of Egypt for Serbia's "moderate and responsible policy."

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met on Monday with Egypt's Ambassador to Serbia Menha Mahrous Bakhoum and condemned the attacks on Egyptian citizens in Libya, while the ambassador stressed the support of Egypt for Serbia's moderate and responsible policy.

An Egyptian court on Feb. 23 sentenced Alaa Abdel Fattah, a leading dissident in the 2011 uprising that toppled strongman Hosni Mubarak, to five years in prison over an illegal protest.
      
The remaining 24 defendants in the case received sentences ranging from three to 15 years.
      

A stampede at a Cairo stadium earlier this month, much like a politically-loaded football brawl in the Suez Canal city of Port Said three years ago, is shining a spotlight on Egypt's unreformed, unabashedly violent, and politically powerful police and security forces amid confusion over what precisely happened and how many fans died.

This is not a place for a book review, but Shadi Hamid's "Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a new Middle East" (Brookings Institute Book, 2014, Oxford University Press) needs to be mentioned, even if briefly, since Islamism and the Middle East never cease to be hot topics.

At least 25 people were killed and 30 wounded Feb. 20 in a triple bombing in an eastern Libyan town near the jihadist stronghold of Derna, medical and security sources said.
      
The simultaneous attacks targeted police headquarters in Al-Qoba, as well as the home of the speaker of Libya's internationally recognised parliament and a petrol station, the sources said.

Having balked at Egypt's call for military intervention in Libya, the international community faces a daunting task to find a political solution to the lawless North African country's crisis, analysts say.

Scuba divers have discovered the largest trove of gold coins ever found off Israel's Mediterranean coast, about 2,000 pieces dating back more than 1,000 years, the country's antiquities authority said on Feb.

Italy on Feb. 18 issued its strongest warning yet about the danger of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group establishing a stronghold in Libya from where it could attack Europe and destabilize neighboring states.