DUBAI (Reuters) - Egypt's worsening fiscal gap is a concern but the International Monetary Fund is still ready to continue talks on a $4.8 billion loan once Cairo completes a review of its economic program, a senior IMF official said.Full story
SANAA (Reuters) - Two suspected al Qaeda militants were killed on Monday in a drone strike on their vehicle south of the capital Sanaa, tribal and government sources said. Full story
ADEN (Reuters) - At least four people were killed and a number of others wounded in a drone strike on a vehicle carrying suspected al Qaeda members in southern Yemen, a local official said on Saturday. Full story
Demos’ Bob Herbert, The American Prospect’s Jamelle Bouie, The Grio’s Joy Reid, and Center for Constitutional Rights' Shayana Kadidal discuss the chilling effect of the records seizure for journalists and whether the recently-revived proposal of a shield law is just window dressing.
Gregory Johnsen, Near East Studies Scholar at Princeton University and author of “The Last Refuge: Yemen, Al Qaeda and America's War in Arabia," talks with Rachel Maddow about why conditions now favor returning some Guantanamo prisoners to their native Yemen and what such a step would mean toward cl
Richard Engel, NBC News chief foreign correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow about why the U.S. government is so keen to find the source of the leak to the AP about the al Qaeda bomb plot, and the rare and valuable al Qaeda double agent whose life was put at risk by their reporting.
Top Talkers: Associated Press Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll joins Morning Joe to discuss the Justice Department's use of a secret subpoena to obtain two months of phone records of AP reporters without notifying the organization. Carroll says the Associated Press finds the Justice Department's ac
President Obama blasted congressional inaction in a wide-ranging news conference Tuesday by re-igniting the call to close Guantanamo particularly in light of the growing crisis there in the form of a hunger strike.
A boy pushes a wheel cart with two children and a jerrycan as they head to collect water from a tap at a camp for internally displaced persons in al-Mazraq in the northwestern Yemeni province of Hajja May 20, 2013. Thousands of the IDPs who have fled fighting between Shi'ite rebels and government f
Women and children gather to collect water from a tap at a camp for internally displaced persons in al-Mazraq in the northwestern Yemeni province of Hajja May 20, 2013. Thousands of the IDPs who have fled fighting between Shi'ite rebels and government forces in northwestern Yemen have yet to return
An elderly man rides a donkey outside at a settlement for internally displaced persons in al-Mazraq, in the northwestern Yemeni province of Hajja May 20, 2013. Thousands of the IDPs who have fled fighting between Shi'ite rebels and government forces in northwestern Yemen have yet to return to their
A veiled woman carries her son as she walks at a camp for internally displaced persons in al-Mazraq of the northwestern Yemeni province of Hajja May 20, 2013. Thousands of the IDPs who have fled fighting between Shi'ite rebels and government forces in northwestern Yemen have yet to return to their
