AFP, New York
Donald Trump has the blessing of the New York Post tabloid, which used its Friday edition to endorse the Republican frontrunner, calling him “imperfect-but so full of promise.”
The conservative daily, owned by media baron Rupert Murdoch, said the Manhattan billionaire reflects “the best of ‘New York values'” and “offers the best hope for all Americans who rightly feel betrayed by the political class.”
Anti-govt protest in Egypt
Reuters, Cairo
Thousands of Egyptians angered by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s decision to hand over two islands to Saudi Arabia called on Friday for the government to fall, chanting a slogan from the 2011 Arab Spring uprising.
Their protests signaled that the former general, who is also under mounting criticism over the struggling economy, no longer enjoys the broad public support that let him round up thousands of opponents after he seized power in 2013.
5 held for terror offences in UK
AFP, London
Five people have been arrested for alleged terror offences in Britain-including one man stopped at an airport-in an investigation involving French and Belgian authorities, police said on Friday.
Four of the arrests-three men aged 26, 40 and 59 and a 29-year-old woman-were in Birmingham in central England on Thursday, while a 26-year-old man was arrested at London Gatwick Airport on Friday.
OIC assails Iran for ‘supporting terrorism’
Agencies, Istanbul
A major summit aimed at overcoming differences in the Muslim world condemned Iran on Friday for what it called supporting terrorism and meddling in the affairs of other countries.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who had been at the two-day Istanbul conference along with over 30 other heads of state and government from Muslim countries, did not attend the closing meeting in protest.
