Rights groups warn against gov’t bias in elections
CAIRO: Free parliamentary and presidential elections are “impossible if state bodies are not neutral”, 11 Egyptian human rights bodies said this week. In a joint statement the Forum of Independent…
Al Baraka Egypt Bank H1 net jumps 57 pct
CAIRO: Al Baraka Egypt Bank posted a 57 percent increase in first-half net profit to 65.6 million Egyptian pounds ($11.49 million), the Cairo stock exchange said on Sunday. The Cairo-based…
Egypt’s Misr Beni Suef H1 net profit drops 4 pct
CAIRO: Egypt's Misr Beni Suef Cement posted a 4 percent fall in net profit to LE 193.5 million ($33.9 million) for the first half of 2010, the stock exchange said…
Egypt’s Eipico H1 net up 17.5 pct, says bourse
CAIRO: Egyptian International Pharmaceutical Industries Co (Eipico) posted a 17.5 percent rise in first half net profit to LE 178.7 million ($31.35 million), the stock exchange said on Sunday. Net…
Egypt’s Credit Agricole H1 net rises 3.3 pct
CAIRO: Credit Agricole Egypt's first half net profit rose 3.3 percent to LE 202.8 million ($35.58 million), the bank said on Sunday. Loans to customers climbed to LE 10.1 billion…
Maadi ferry case adjourned to Sept. 4
CAIRO: The first appeal hearing of the Maadi ferry case Saturday, which left nine girls dead, two missing and three injured, was adjourned to Sept. 4. Islamist lawyer Montasser Al-Zayyat…
UN group in Gaza on follow-up to Goldstone war report
GAZA CITY: Sixteen members of a committee created by the UN Human Rights Council to follow up on a UN report into the Gaza war arrived in the enclave late…
6 African migrants killed in Egypt in desert clash
EL-ARISH: Six African migrants trying to cross into Israel were killed in clashes with Bedouin traffickers and Egyptian border guards in the Sinai Desert, security officials said Saturday. The traffickers…
Causes of war and how to preserve human dignity
Today, we are living in a world that is extremely dangerous, embroiled in ethnic, regional and territorial conflicts. Conflicting parties have accumulated sufficient arsenals to unleash brutal war in the…
Hillary’s Kissinger moment
TOKYO: Hillary Clinton’s recent trip to Asia may one day be seen as the most significant visit to the region by a United States diplomat since Henry Kissinger’s secret mission…