Egypt mulls forex, loan guarantees for PPP plans
CAIRO: Egypt is studying sovereign guarantees and measures to mitigate currency risk to encourage companies to bid for public private partnerships (PPP) over the coming months, a Finance Ministry official…
Ministry to improve online communication with thanawiya amma students
By Safaa Abdoun CAIRO: The Ministry of Education has upped its communication with thanawiya amma (Egyptian high school certificate) students by adding email notification services for grades and schedules, in addition…
Minya Copts end protest after promises to find missing girls
By Essam Fadl CAIRO: Hundreds of Copts ended their strike in front of the Minya Security Headquarters after promises to find two Coptic girls who went missing last Sunday. Clashes broke…
Mubarak-linked businessman detained in Spain
By Sarah El Deeb /AP CAIRO: Spanish authorities have detained a close associate of ousted President Hosni Mubarak wanted for trial at home on charges of bribing Mubarak and his family…
Egyptian Qaeda suspect arrested in Cairo
By AFP CAIRO: Authorities at Cairo airport on Thursday detained an Egyptian national suspected of belonging to Al-Qaeda in Yemen, an airport official told AFP. Rabie Abdullah, who was travelling…
Egypt bans Mubarak daughters-in-law from travel
By AFP CAIRO: The Egyptian justice ministry's fraud unit on Thursday slapped a travel ban on ousted president Hosni Mubarak's two daughters-in-law and their children, a judicial official told AFP.…
NATO to help Arab revolts ‘blossom’, says Rasmussen
MADRID: NATO is ready to help the so-called Arab Spring revolts to "well and truly blossom", the secretary general of the alliance, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said Thursday. "The changes we…
Support democracy, visit Egypt, Tunisia, minister Tweets
WARSAW: Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has used his Twitter feed to urge fellow Poles to support the fledgling democracies of Egypt and Tunisia by spending their vacations there. "Countrymen!…
Activist accused of ‘counter-revolution activities’ on hunger strike in prison
By Marwa Al-A'asar CAIRO: Activist Wael Ali Aboul-Leil accused of conducting “counter-revolutionary activities” reportedly began a hunger strike earlier this week at Tora Prison where he is being held, to…
Al-Qaeda: No. 2 al-Zawahri succeeds bin Laden
CAIRO: Al-Qaeda's longtime No. 2 leader, a doctor from a prominent Egyptian family who worked with Osama bin Laden for decades, has succeeded the slain terrorist as head of the…