Egyptian pound hits five-year low vs. dollar
CAIRO: The Egyptian pound weakened on Tuesday to its lowest level against the dollar since July 2005 as offshore investors sold treasury bills and Egypt's central bank apparently refrained from…
Syria working to prevent Lebanon violence, says Al-Assad
BEIRUT: Damascus is working to avoid potential violence in neighboring Lebanon as rival parties go head-to-head over a UN probe into the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri, Syrian President Bashar…
Iran injects fuel into first nuclear reactor
TEHRAN: Iran began loading fuel into the core of its first nuclear power plant on Tuesday, moving closer to the start-up of a facility that the US once hoped to…
‘Content, date, venue’ of nuclear talks undecided, says Iran
TEHRAN: said on Tuesday that the content, date and venue of a mooted fresh round of talks with six major world powers on its controversial nuclear program have yet to…
15 Qaeda suspects surrender in south Yemen, says official
ADEN: Fifteen suspected Al-Qaeda members have surrendered to the governor of the restive south Yemen province of Abyan, a security official said on Tuesday. The 15 surrendered to Ahmed Al-Mayassari…
Israel PM cooking up three-month settlement freeze, says report
JERUSALEM: Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu is working on a year-long plan to revive peace talks with the Palestinians, which would involve a three-month freeze on settlement building, a newspaper reported on…
N. Zealand PM, Hollywood execs in Hobbit deadlock
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key on Tuesday failed to secure a guarantee from Hollywood executives that Peter Jackson's troubled “Hobbit” movies would be filmed in the country. After crisis…
Fortier updates Shakespeare’s Juliet in new book
Anne Fortier approached her new novel, “Juliet,” with the diligence of a graduate student working on her thesis. Her modern-day retelling of William Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet” jumps back and…
Egypt’s first circus festival wraps up
CirCairo, the First International Circus Festival in Egypt, concluded its activities with a colorful closing ceremony on El-Muiz Street last Saturday, the last evening in a series of circus performances…
Short film series explores ‘the other’
The American University in Cairo's Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Department hosted the screening of two short films on Sunday night, part of a series sponsored by the Austrian Cultural…
