Israeli border guard kills Egyptian drug smuggler
JERUSALEM: An Israeli military spokeswoman says border guards shot and killed an Egyptian infiltrator suspected of smuggling drugs into Israel. The spokeswoman said Saturday that the man did not heed…
Gilad Schalit's family marching to Jerusalem
JERUSALEM: The family of a captured Israeli soldier set out Sunday on a 12-day march to Jerusalem to press Israeli leaders to make a deal with his Hamas captors to…
Cairo’s zabbaleen reclaim their share in garbage collection
CAIRO: The screening of Mai Iskander’s “Garbage Dreams”, a documentary on Cairo’s trash collectors known as zabbaleen, at Darb 1718 this Monday was an opportunity not only to shed…
Drilling platforms not guilty of oil spill, says ministry
CAIRO: Waste dumping and residual oil stains on rocks caused the recent oil spill on the Red Sea coast of Hurghada, according to online news portal masrawy.com. The committee assigned…
Between principle and peril
It is perhaps somberly appropriate to address the issue of Israeli settlements one week after a state investigation committee made its final report on the failed resettlement of the Jewish…
Rhetoric and fishermen belay the myth of GCC unity
Early in May a Qatari naval vessel shot at Bahraini fishing boats which entered Qatari territorial waters. One fisherman was seriously injured and over one hundred were arrested. This occurred…
Turkey's rise and the decline of Pan-Arabism
TEL AVIV: The deadly fiasco of the Turkish-led “peace flotilla” to Gaza highlighted the deepening strain in the Israeli-Turkish alliance. But it mainly helped expose the deeper, underlying reasons for…
Gomaa Market no more
CAIRO: The scenario is all too familiar: A fire breaks out killing three, or a mountain collapses into an avalanche of deadly boulders killing 300; rescue efforts are slow…
Hundreds protest against torture in Alexandria
By Mohamed Effat CAIRO: Amid heavy security presence, some 1,000 protestors and political figures took part in a protest against torture and police brutality in Alexandria on Friday. The protest began…
Advanced Pharmaceutical Packaging launches 30 pct IPO
CAIRO: Egypt's Advanced Pharmaceutical Packaging is raising 21 million Egyptian pounds ($3.8 million) in an initial public offering of 30 percent of its shares to boost capacity in its glass…
