Man tortured in Meet Ghamr police station last week, says family
CAIRO: The family of a suspect in a misdemeanor case filed a complaint to the prosecutor general accusing an officer at Meet Ghamr Police Station of torturing him last week…
Army starts rebuilding Etfeeh Church
CAIRO: Armed Forces trucks loaded with building material and accompanied by engineers arrived at the Sol village in Etfeeh Sunday morning to rebuild a church that was burnt down in…
Egypt transition strains a month after Mubarak quit
By AFP CAIRO: A month after president Hosni Mubarak was forced to quit in the face of an unprecedented popular uprising, Egypt's new rulers are grappling with the political and…
Egypt transition strains a month after Mubarak quit
CAIRO: A month after president Hosni Mubarak was forced to quit in the face of an unprecedented popular uprising, Egypt's new rulers are grappling with the political and economic aftermath…
Education key to development, say literacy initiative founders
CAIRO: Illiteracy is the key obstacle to the development of a nation, agreed experts from the public and private sectors as well as civil society at the launch of…
Unions, syndicates set to flourish in Egypt as ILO keeps watchful eye
CAIRO: At a finance ministry press conference Sunday, Kamal Abu Eita, one of the founders of the newly-created Independent Labor Union — not on the scheduled panel of speakers…
African consumer stands tall amid commodity boom
JOHANNESBURG: Soaring commodity prices are boosting African economies and state budgets, but strong growth on the poorest continent is much more deep-seated than just bumper revenues from ores and oil.…
Government Handouts Won’t Placate People of the Middle East
By Aaron Rhodes and Jacob Mchangama The realization that, just as Libya was being suspended from the United Nations Human Rights Council for its humanitarian atrocities, the same body was about…
A no-fly zone for Libya
By John Kerry WASHINGTON, DC: Leaders around the world are vigorously debating the advisability of establishing a no-fly zone to stop the violence unfolding in Libya. Some cite Bosnia, where NATO…
Obama of Arabia?
By Christopher Hill DENVER: Not since 1989 has the world seen such an all-consuming, all-engulfing wildfire of freedom and democracy, whose burning passions are sweeping across a region vast and old…