Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson appears in the following:
Crackdown In Egypt Shows Shift In Military's Approach
Saturday, July 27, 2013
In Egypt, protests against the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi turned deadly Saturday, after Egyptian security forces launched the most violent crackdown yet on those demonstrators.
The Egyptian Health Ministry says around 80 people were killed — most of them in Cairo. The Muslim Brotherhood, from which the deposed ...
At Estonia's Bank Of Happiness, Kindness Is The Currency
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Estonia's capital, Tallinn, is considered one of the world's leading "smart" cities, where the government and businesses alike rely heavily on computer technology.
But one group in the Estonian capital is using the Internet for something completely different: an online forum that markets good deeds.
Germany Says It's Uncovered Terrorist Plot Using Model Planes
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
German officials say they've uncovered a radical Islamist plot to use remote-controlled model airplanes packed with explosives to carry out terrorist attacks in Germany.
Police carried out nine predawn raids in southern and eastern Germany as well as Belgium in search of evidence of what prosecutors allege was a plan ...
Suspect Arrested In More Than 700 European Highway Shootings
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
German police say they have arrested a 57-year-old trucker whom they accuse of carrying out 762 shootings on European highways over the past five years.
"We found the famous needle in a hay stack," said Joerg Ziercke, chief commissioner of the German Federal Criminal Police. "A dangerous criminal who on ...
Amid Ire At U.S., Germany Does Its Own Domestic Spying
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Revelations of widespread U.S. spying on foreign Internet communications put a damper on President Obama's first state visit to Berlin. The German chancellor and other officials there say they want to know more about what the National Security Agency is looking at.
Yet the backlash has been more muted ...
Tallinn: The Former Soviet City That Gave Birth To Skype
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
The Baltic city of Tallinn hardly looks modern with its blend of medieval towers and Soviet-era architecture. Smoke-spewing buses and noisy streetcars look as if they have been plucked from the past.
Even so, the Estonian capital is one of the world's most technologically advanced cities. The birthplace of Skype ...
German Terrorism Trial Puts Racism Fears In The Spotlight
Monday, May 06, 2013
Emotions ran high as Germany's biggest terrorism trial in decades got underway Monday in Munich. The hearing is on the murders of 10 people who were the victims of a nearly decadelong neo-Nazi terror campaign against the Turkish community there.
A group of Turkish immigrants scuffled with German security forces, ...