German journalists held in Iran not accused of spying, says aide
BERLIN: Two German journalists arrested in Iran in October are not facing charges of spying, a senior aide to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted in a German newspaper Sunday as…
Residents flee Lebanon forest fire
FATRI: Residents of a Lebanese village began to flee on Sunday as a forest fire which has raged out of control for the past week threatened to engulf their homes.…
Iran will ‘never use’ force against Muslim neighbours
MANAMA: Iran sought on Saturday to calm the fears of its neighbours, saying it would never use force against them because they are Muslims, after the United States highlighted concerns…
CIFF recommended movies on Monday
Copacabana Directed by: Marc Fitoussi. Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Aure Atika and Lolita Chammah Synopsis: Boldly unconventional and cheerful, that's how one could describe Babou. Never having cared about social conventions,…
‘Jean Gentil’: First Dominican film screened at Cairo International Film Fest
The Cairo International Film Festival witnessed a rare first on Saturday at the Cairo Opera House: its first screening of a Dominican movie. The feature length film, “Jean Gentil”, is…
Defying the Garden of Eden syndrome
By Kandeh Yumkella ACCRA: When you fly into Takoradi, Ghana’s fourth largest city and an industrial and commercial center, one of the first things you notice are the oil rigs along…
In the footsteps of Gandhi, Mandela, and Havel
By Ma Jian LONDON: Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned Chinese writer and human-rights campaigner, will receive the Nobel Peace Prize on Dec. 10. For the first time in history, however, neither the…
What size the fire exit?
By Daniel Gros BRUSSELS: The eurozone is being thrown into turmoil by a collective rush to the exits by investors. Yields on government debt of peripheral eurozone countries are skyrocketing, because…
The lessons of Europe’s carbon trade
By Denny Ellerman FLORENCE: As the Cancún climate change summit approaches, discussions about the viability of carbon trading systems is intensifying. The world can look to Europe as a model that…
Shark attack kills German woman off Egypt’s Sharm resort
CAIRO: A shark mauled to death a German woman tourist snorkeling off Sharm El-Sheikh on Sunday, in the third shark attack in Egypt's popular Red Sea resort in a week,…