Zamalek enter race for Mansoura keeper
CAIRO: Zamalek will enter competition against rivals Ahly for the services of highly-rated Mansoura keeper Mahmoud Aboul-Saoud. Following Mansoura's relegation from the Premier League, a summer exit is imminent for…
Israel marks 43-year rule of Jerusalem
JERUSALEM: Israel on Tuesday starts celebrating the anniversary of what it calls Jerusalem's unification, its 1967 conquest of the city's Arab sector which has since become a major hurdle in…
Nassr to show Ghaly the door
CAIRO: Hossam Ghaly is set to leave Nassr at the end of the season after he inexplicably walked away ahead of a cup game last week, chairman Faisal bin Torki…
US Special forces train African armies
KATI, Mali: A US Special Forces instructor leans toward a steering wheel, showing some 50 Malian soldiers gathered around an army pickup how a passenger should take control of a…
EU says, Somali pirates free cargo vessel after ransom
NAIROBI: The spokesman for the European Union's anti-piracy force says Somali pirates have released a cargo vessel they had held for more than a month. Cmdr. John Harbour says the…
Salem leaving Ismaili for his son's sake
CAIRO: Egypt defender Moatassem Salem will be leaving Ismaili to either Ahly or Zamalek only for the sake of his son. The 29-year-old center-half, who is targeted by Cairo's top…
Moms of 3 Americans jailed in Iran wait for visas
MINNEAPOLIS: The three women have their bags packed and ready to go, waiting for the moment they get the all-clear to visit their adult children who have been jailed in…
Judge to examine crime scene of double homicide
CAIRO: Judge Mohamed Abdel Rehim Ismail, in charge of the retrial of the murder case of Nadine Khaled and Heba El-Akkad, decided on Tuesday to examine the crime scene himself.…
Iran sentences Newsweek reporter in absentia
WASHINGTON: Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari, who was detained in Iran from June to October, says a revolutionary court sentenced him this week to 13 years and six months behind bars…
Most of Iran's action in Afghanistan not 'malign', says General
WASHINGTON: NATO war commander General Stanley McChrystal said Monday there was intelligence Iran was guilty of some "malign" activity in the country, but added that most of its role was…
