Mes: septiembre 2019

Updated 12:57 PM ET (AP) CAIRO – A campaign spokesman for Hosni Mubarak’s ex-prime minister said Tuesday that Ahmed Shafiq has won Egypt’s presidential election, countering the Muslim Brotherhood’s claims that its candidate was the winner and setting the stage for a divisive fight for the leadership. The rival claims potentially open a new chapter of unrest at a time when opposition already is growing against a constitutional declaration announced by the military on Sunday which robbed the next president of many powers and gave the generals who succeeded Mubarak last year legislative powers as well as control over the process of drafting a permanent constitution. The Brotherhood is already gearing up for a confrontation with the ruling military. It has called for mass demonstrations in Cairo and elsewhere on Tuesday to protest the military’s declaration, which made changes to the interim constitution, as well as a court ruling last week that dissolved parliament, where the Brotherhood controlled nearly half the seats. More in After the Arab Spring The court ruling has been endorsed by the military, whose leader, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, issued a decree dissolving the legislature. The Brotherhood and its Islamist allies dismissed the decree, arguing the military ruler had no right to issue it less than two weeks before the scheduled transfer of power to civilians. Also last week, the military-backed government granted military police...

(AP) WASHINGTON – A U.S. military investigation is recommending that as many as seven U.S. troops face administrative punishments, but not criminal charges, in the burning of Korans at a U.S. base in Afghanistan in February, The Associated Press has learned. U.S. military officials said the classified report and recommendations for disciplinary action against the service members involved were delivered to the Pentagon more than a week ago. They have been turned over to the Army and Navy secretaries. No final decisions have been made. According to the officials, one Navy service member and as many as six Army soldiers could face nonjudicial disciplinary actions, which can range from a letter in their file to docking their pay or assigning them additional duties. The lack of any criminal charges is in line with early assertions from military officials that the incident, while regrettable, was a mistake. But it is likely to anger Afghans who were enraged by the burning. Some took to the streets across the country in deadly riots after it happened. More in Afghanistan: The way forward The Korans and other Islamic books were taken from the Parwan Detention Facility, and officials believed that extremists being detained there were using the texts to exchange messages. The religious books and other materials were put in burn bags and then later thrown into a fire pit used to burn...

Updated 2:37 PM ET (AP) ATHENS, Greece – A coalition government could be formed by mid-Wednesday in Greece, the head of the country’s socialist party said Tuesday, easing the nation out of a political limbo as it struggles to deal with a financial crisis that is already affecting Europe’s economy and markets around the world. Evangelos Venizelos’ socialist PASOK party came third in Sunday’s elections. At the core of any administration will be Antonis Samaras’ conservative New Democracy party, which came first in Sunday’s vote and won 129 of Parliament’s 300 seats — short of the 151 needed to govern alone. The radical left Syriza party in second place, with 71 seats, has refused to join any government that will implement the terms of Greece’s international bailout, under which the country has received billions of euros in rescue loans in return for deeply unpopular spending cuts and tax hikes. Video: G-20 summit ends with hope for GreeceGreece: Former finance minister key to gov’t talks Venizelos, who handled Greece’s negotiations with its international creditors for several months last year as finance minister, said the government would have the support of the election winner, PASOK and the small Democratic Left party of Fotis Kouvelis, which won 17 seats. “With Syriza’s refusal, the only practical solution now is the creation of a government with the support of New Democracy, PASOK, and the...

Updated 2:37 PM ET (AP) ATHENS, Greece – A coalition government could be formed by mid-Wednesday in Greece, the head of the country’s socialist party said Tuesday, easing the nation out of a political limbo as it struggles to deal with a financial crisis that is already affecting Europe’s economy and markets around the world. Evangelos Venizelos’ socialist PASOK party came third in Sunday’s elections. At the core of any administration will be Antonis Samaras’ conservative New Democracy party, which came first in Sunday’s vote and won 129 of Parliament’s 300 seats — short of the 151 needed to govern alone. The radical left Syriza party in second place, with 71 seats, has refused to join any government that will implement the terms of Greece’s international bailout, under which the country has received billions of euros in rescue loans in return for deeply unpopular spending cuts and tax hikes. Video: G-20 summit ends with hope for GreeceGreece: Former finance minister key to gov’t talks Venizelos, who handled Greece’s negotiations with its international creditors for several months last year as finance minister, said the government would have the support of the election winner, PASOK and the small Democratic Left party of Fotis Kouvelis, which won 17 seats. “With Syriza’s refusal, the only practical solution now is the creation of a government with the support of New Democracy, PASOK, and the...

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