In new Egypt, Gama’a Islamiya steps out of shadows
By Tom Perry / Reuters CAIRO: The overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak has allowed an Islamist group that took up arms against his administration to step out of the shadows for…
Military and police reach out through social media
CAIRO: Only after the Egyptian police led the trend and created a Facebook group last week that Egypt's military junta became the website's newest user. The fact that Egypt's latest…
Europe faces risks with unrest in Arab world
By David Brunnstrom / Reuters BRUSSELS: Europe, with its history of war and authoritarianism not long in the past, is often quick to promote democracy, human rights and the rule of…
Egyptian democracy advocate critical of military
By Sarah El Deeb / AP CAIRO: Egypt's new military rulers have come under criticism from a leading democracy advocate as well as from youth and women's groups for what they…
Iran ‘not like Egypt’: top Iranian director
The changes sweeping through Egypt and Tunisia are unlikely to happen in Iran in the near future, as the respective societies are very different, a top Iranian director said Thursday.…
Assange portrayed as ’emperor’ in insider book
A tell-all book entitled "Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website" by a former WikiLeaks insider casts founder Julian Assange as an "emperor" who…
Egypt central bank sees 2010/11 growth of 3-3.5 pct
CAIRO: Egypt's economy is likely to expand by 3-3.5 percent in the year to the end of June, the country's central bank deputy governor said on Friday. The government saw…
In Qatar, Arab modern art gets its first museum
Paintings acquired by shadowy anonymous buyers paying record prices now hang in the light of day in Qatar in the world's first museum devoted to modern Arab art. The masterpieces…
Angry Bahrain Shias bury dead of police raid
SITRA: Angry Bahraini Shias began Friday burying the dead of a violent police raid on anti-regime protesters as the army enforced a tight clamp across the capital of the Sunni-ruled…
‘Day of anger’ claims 24 lives in Libya, says rights group
CAIRO: A "day of anger" against Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi turned into a bloodbath when security forces gunned down at least 24 people in two of the country's biggest cities,…