Military ends conflict between three Bedouin tribes in North Sinai
CAIRO: Mediation by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) ended a long-standing conflict between three key tribes in Sinai that has left around 120 cars hijacked and dozens…
Egypt, Tunisia stumble through Swiss legal hoops
BERN, Switzerland: The Swiss were among the first to freeze the assets of ousted presidents Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, and now the…
Helwan, 6 October employees protest against cancellation of the 2 governorates
CAIRO: Tens of employees in Helwan and Sixth of October governorate offices continued protests in front of the Cabinet demanding the revocation of a decision Thursday to reincorporate the two…
AN ISRAELI VIEW: The peace process: A hollow, cynical concept
By Amira Hass It is not the "process-ization" or the business-world terminology that killed the notion of peace. But the tedious, two-decade-long ritual of meetings-for-meetings-sake and the overdose of "mechanisms" have…
A PALESTINIAN VIEW: More process than peace
By Ghassan Khatib After eight months of no negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, it is useful to clarify that recent experience has demonstrated that the existence of a peace process does…
Pools of danger
By Charles Ferguson WASHINGTON, DC: The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis in Japan has underscored the dangers of storing highly radioactive spent fuel in pools of water that are susceptible to breaches…
Strauss-Kahn’s choice
By Luigi Zingales CHICAGO: When Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a former French finance minister, was appointed Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund in 2007, many developing countries objected — not to him,…
Egypt refers former PM, finance minister to court
CAIRO: Egypt will put on trial the former prime minister and his finance minister on charges of profiteering and squandering public funds, the public prosecutor's office said on Sunday. No…
Netanyahu fears anti-Israel trend in Egypt, says report
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he is worried by apparently anti-Israeli statements made by Egyptian politicians in recent weeks, Haaretz newspaper reported on Sunday. Addressing European Union…
Mubarak heart OK, health stable, says Egypt state media
CAIRO: Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was hospitalized this week due to a drop in blood pressure, and his condition is stable, state media reported late Saturday. Mubarak, who is…