Syrian protesters plan week ‘to break the siege’
DAMASCUS: Anti-regime protesters in Syria on Sunday planned the start of a "week of breaking the siege" a day after troops killed six civilians in the southern flashpoint city of…
NATO strike kills Qaddafi’s son but leader escapes
TRIPOLI: Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi escaped a NATO missile strike in Tripoli that killed one of his sons and three young grandchildren, a government spokesman said early Sunday. Hours later,…
ANALYSIS: Graft, stagnation persist in post-Mubarak Egypt
By Miral Fahmy /Reuters CAIRO: When President Hosni Mubarak was driven from power in February, millions of Egyptians believed the graft and stagnation that blighted his 30-year rule would go too.…
A coalition of police officers demands changing interior minister’s assistants
CAIRO: The Coalition of Police Officers demanded the replacement of the interior minister’s assistants who were appointed during the reign of ex-minister Habib Al-Adly, accusing them of being a “setback”.…
A few hundred show up in Qena’s planned ‘million man march’
CAIRO: Only a few hundred protesters rallied in front of the Qena governorate’s headquarters following Friday prayers to reiterate their demand to sack governor Emad Shehata Mikhael, in what was…
ANALYSIS: Palestinian accord coup for post-Mubarak Egypt
By Agencies CAIRO: Eleven weeks after president Hosni Mubarak was toppled in a popular revolt, Egypt's new government has scored its first diplomatic coup with a Palestinian reconciliation deal. Cairo tried…
INTERVIEW: Female ex-talk show host eyes Egypt presidency
FAYOUM: Who better for president than a plain-talking, female former talk show host eager to tackle the corruption and nepotism blamed for Egypt's national malaise? So says glamorous TV anchor…
5,000 civilians tried in military courts, says Human Rights Watch
CAIRO: Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released Friday that the Egyptian military has tried over 5,000 civilians in military courts since February. It urged the ruling Supreme…
MEast banks unlikely to see pre-crisis level growth: BCG
DUBAI: Banks in the Gulf Arab region are unlikely to witness the high growth levels seen before the financial crisis as real-estate-driven lending and income growth subsides, the Boston Cosulting…
Electronic trading switch spurs Khartoum bourse hopes
KHARTOUM: It takes a special kind of investor to dabble in the stock market in Sudan, a country with an insurgency in the west, a secession in the south and…