Press watchdog urges Egyptian ‘insult’ reporter’s acquittal
VIENNA: Press watchdog IPI called on Monday for the acquittal of an Egyptian journalist accused of insulting a minister, as it stressed the need for freedom of opinion ahead of…
Egyptian papyrus found in ancient Irish bog
DUBLIN: Irish scientists have found fragments of Egyptian papyrus in the leather cover of an ancient book of psalms that was unearthed from a peat bog, Ireland's National Museum said…
Sliding toward climate catastrophe
Unprecedented heatwaves in Russia, fatal floods in Pakistan, the breaking up of the Greenland ice-sheet. The coincidence and severity of such natural disasters in recent months has prompted renewed debate…
The skills deficit
BRUSSELS: Two years after the world economy suffered a nervous breakdown in the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, global financial markets remain unsettled, and the recovery that started…
Reflections on the Mideast peace talks
VERMONT: As the direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Washington begin, the US mediation team will need to be attentive to several invisible elements. Even as the parties are talking about…
104,000 attempted to commit suicide in 2009; over 5,000 died
CAIRO: Around 104,000 Egyptians attempted to commit suicide in 2009, according to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). More than 60 percent of these cases were between…
Egypt to invite bids for 1,000 MW electricity generators
CAIRO: Egypt will invite bids this week to build electricity generators with a total capacity of 1,000 MW, part of an effort to deal with power outages that have been…
Egyptian consumer confidence dips in H1 2010, says report
CAIRO: Consumer confidence in Egypt dropped sharply in the first half of 2010 to reach to 45.5, down from 59.5 in the second half of 2009, according to a report.…
Egypt signs deal to allow farmland access in Sudan
CAIRO: Egypt's government signed a deal to allow Egyptian companies access to farm land in Sudan, the first deal of its kind between the two countries, an agriculture ministry official…
