Iran gives jail sentence to acclaimed journalist, says website
TEHRAN: Iran has sentenced award-winning journalist Emadeddin Baghi to a year in prison and banned him from political activities for five years, an opposition website reported. Baghi, who is also…
Grieving German town seeks answers on stampede
"Why?". A single word on a small white board amid hundreds of flowers and candles outside the tunnel where 19 died at the Love Parade sums up the disbelief of…
Israel’s Barak heads to Washington for top-level talks
JERUSALEM: Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak left on Monday for a working visit to the United States where he will hold a series of meetings with top US officials, a…
Education ministry modifies rules on assignment of exam proctors
CAIRO: Minister of Education Ahmed Zaki Badr announced that proctors of national secondary school certificate exams will only be assigned to posts at their governorates of residence after six proctors…
Gamal Mubarak nomination campaign ‘a fiasco,’ says Kefaya leader
CAIRO: A recent campaign to promote the nomination of Gamal Mubarak — son of incumbent President Mubarak — for the presidency in 2011 is nothing but a fiasco, general coordinator…
Sarkozy vows revenge after Al-Qaeda kills hostage
PARIS: President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed Monday that France would avenge the murder of a 78-year-old French aid worker who was kidnapped and killed in the Sahara desert by Al-Qaeda's North…
Warrant issued for Iran stoning woman’s lawyer, says opposition
TEHRAN: Iranian police have tried to execute an arrest warrant for the lawyer of a woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in a case that sparked an international…
UAE says, BlackBerry phones could threaten security
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: The United Arab Emirates' telecommunition watchdog says BlackBerry smartphones are a potential threat to the country's national security and it is seeking changes in how the…
Ramadan to start Aug. 11, heat wave to subside gradually
CAIRO: For the second time in 34 years, Ramadan will fall in the summer this year. With the Muslims holy month to start on Aug. 11, according to the state…
Trial of policemen charged in Khaled Saeid case begins
By Sarah Carr CAIRO: A trial begins Tuesday at the Alexandria Criminal Court of two policemen charged with offences in connection with the death of Khaled Saied. Thirty-three-year-old Awad Ismail Suleiman…
