UN labor treaty vows to protect domestic workers
GENEVA: Member states of the UN labor agency adopted a treaty on Thursday to improve conditions for tens of millions of domestic workers worldwide, hailed as a great victory by…
Egypt boat held by Somali pirates freed after 10 months
CAIRO: An Egyptian boat seized with its 22-member crew by pirates off the coast of Somalia in August 2010 has been freed, an Egyptian foreign ministry official said on Friday.…
Towards KG1 democracy in Egypt
By Rania Al Malky CAIRO: The debate over the pros and cons of holding legislative elections as early as next September has polarized Egypt’s political class, and in turn the newly…
Spain freezes assets of detained Mubarak associate
By Daniel Woolls /AP MADRID: Spain has frozen €33 million ($47 million) in accounts held by a detained Egyptian associate of ousted president Hosni Mubarak and relatives of the detainee, who…
New independent syndicate aims to uphold journalists’ rights, says co-founder
By Marwa Al-A'asar CAIRO: The newly-established Egyptian Journalists’ Independent Syndicate aims to defend the rights of journalists’ as well as develop the profession, one of its founding members said. Despite the…
Political powers welcome ElBaradei’s rights charter, call for debate
By Heba Fahmy CAIRO: Political powers welcomed the rights charter introduced by presidential hopeful Mohamed ElBaradei, but expressed some reservations and called for debating the articles before supporting their inclusion in…
America’s Dangerous Debt Ceiling Debate
By Mohamed El-Erian NEWPORT BEACH: It has been raised more than 70 times in the last 50 years, mostly without commotion. It must be raised again this summer if the United…
Muslim women speak for themselves
By Asma Uddin WASHINGTON, DC: We all have important causes to which we are innately drawn. My cause has always been twofold: women’s equality and Islam. A few years ago I…
Fixing Our Broken Oceans
By Achim Steiner and Joshua S. Reichert NAIROBI: Many people know that oceans cover more than 70 percent of the world’s surface, and that marine fisheries provide food for billions of…
Croatian exhibition spotlights Tito’s iconic Galeb yacht
By Lajla Veselica/ AFP A local exhibition showcasing artworks banned by 20th century totalitarian regimes has lifted out of oblivion a powerful symbol of socialist glamour: former Yugoslav leader Josip Broz…