Alexandria bombing: A crisis of our own making
By Joseph Fahim Last month, on my way back home from the airport, I found myself in the company of a young Coptic cab driver who had a thing or two…
Missing pieces of colossal statue unearthed in Egypt
CAIRO: Archaeologists have unearthed six missing pieces from a 3,400-year-old colossal double statue of a powerful pharaoh and his queen. The Supreme Council of Antiquities said in a statement Sunday…
Hawass threatens to take ‘Cleopatra’s Needle’ out of NYC
CAIRO: In a letter to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Egypt’s antiquities chief Zahi Hawass threatened to take back the Egyptian obelisk placed in Central Park citing a lack of…
Coptic pope leaves for US medical check-up
CAIRO: The head of the Coptic church, Pope Shenouda III, left for the United States on Sunday for a medical check-up, the Egyptian state news agency MENA reported. Shenouda, who…
Rights group says blogger loses job over political activism
CAIRO: An Egyptian blogger and human rights activist recently lost his job because of his political views, according to the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI). Mohammed Maree, a…
Sayed Belal’s family pressured to drop torture case, say activists
By Tamim Elyan CAIRO: Human rights activists said that the family of Sayed Belal, a suspect in the Alexandria church attack allegedly tortured to death during investigations last Thursday, is being…
Church attack protestors demand ‘secular state’
By Tamim Elyan CAIRO: Tens of protestors gathering in front of the Saad Zaghloul Mausoleum Friday night criticized the government's response to the attack on an Alexandria church and demanded a…
Al-Sadr hammers anti-US message in 1st Iraq speech
NAJAF: Muqtada Al-Sadr lashed out at the American "enemy" in Iraq during his first speech in the country since returning from exile, fiery rhetoric from a new powerbroker in the…
Egypt convicts 5 Muslim Brotherhood members
By Agencies CAIRO: Egypt's official news agency says five senior members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood have been convicted of money laundering and raising funds abroad. MENA says the Supreme…
Jubilant south Sudanese vote en masse in referendum
JUBA: Men grinning and waving, women singing and dancing, south Sudanese dressed in their finest queued by the thousand Sunday to vote in a landmark referendum expected to create the…
