EgyptAir to resume flights to Iraq after 21-year gap
CAIRO: Egypt's national carrier EgyptAir will resume flights to Iraq in mid-July after they were halted following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, a top official said on Sunday. EgyptAir,…
Egypt questions ‘Somali terror cell’ members
CAIRO: Egyptian authorities are questioning seven members of an alleged Somali terror cell planning attacks on Western interests in Egypt and Israel, a security official told AFP on Sunday. Authorities…
Egypt backs Lagarde for IMF top job
CAIRO: Foreign Minister Nabil El-Araby on Sunday announced Egypt's support for French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde's bid to head the International Monetary Fund. "The Egyptian government supports the candidacy of…
African leaders launch talks on ‘Cape to Cairo’ trade bloc
JOHANNESBURG: African leaders launched talks Sunday to create the continent's biggest free-trade bloc, a $875 billion (€597 billion) market that would boost the region's economic profile. The so-called "Grand" Free…
Arms deals with Egypt continue, US says
WASHINGTON: US arms sales to Egypt have been unaffected by the uprising that ousted president Hosni Mubarak in February, the Pentagon official in charge of carrying out such programs said…
Political forces voice concerns over Brotherhood party
CAIRO: The separation between religion and politics was one of the chief concerns political activists and analysts expressed about the recently accredited Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), which is yet…
17 of recently buried martyrs were prison inmates, says deputy coroner
By Marwa Al-A'asar CAIRO: Deputy Chief Coroner Magda Helal said Thursday evening that 17 of the 19 unidentified bodies believed to have been killed during the revolution were brought into the…
Human rights, not rocket science
By Rania Al Malky CAIRO: Last Monday was the first anniversary commemorating the brutal killing of 28-year-old Khaled Saeid in Alexandria. The photo of the young man whose badly disfigured face…
Obama’s emerging philosophy of self-determination
By Daniel Kurtzer President Barack Obama's May 19, 2011 speech at the State Department — which evoked a highly negative reaction from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for what was said about…
Israeli leaders must lead the public to peace
By Dahlia Scheindlin TEL AVIV: US President Barack Obama’s speech to the US State Department in May should have made Israelis happy. While presenting a new vision of US policy toward…