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Visualizing CO₂ Emissions Since 1900
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Authored by Andrew Korybko via Oriental Review,
Tensions are rising between Egypt and Ethiopia over the latter’s Grand Renaissance Dam.
Yesterday, Egypt suffered its worst mass killing since at least 2013 – a massacre that was ironically carried out by the country’s security forces – when five armed gunmen stormed a mosque in northern Sinai and killed more than 300 people, including at least two dozen children.
And while no group has stepped up to take responsibility for the murderous rampage, Reuters reported that the attackers brandished an Islamic State flag, according to witness accounts. Prosecutors are already investigating the group.
Early Friday, militants armed with guns and explosives stormed a mosque in Egypt’s troubled northern Sinai Peninsula on Friday, killing at least 235 people and wounding at least 120 others, according to Bloomberg, in what appears to be the deadliest mass killing in Egypt since the 2013 attack in Rabaa al-Adawiya, where soldiers loyal to present-day leader Abdel Fattah el-Sisi murdered as many as 900 Islamists who had gathered in the square for a nonviolent sit-in.
Authored by Ian Miles Cheong via The Daily Caller,
A British woman has been arrested upon her arrival in Egypt for bringing a box of painkiller medication into the country for her husband’s back pain. Now she faces the possibility of execution.
The Sun reported Saturday that 33-year-old Laura Plummer is facing a 25-year prison sentence, or execution, after airport authorities discovered Tramadol and Naproxen in her suitcase.