Israel Wakes Up to the Social Media War
TEL AVIV: Within hours of Israel's deadly raid on a Turkish ship filled with humanitarian supplies and carrying hundreds of international activists, the digital war began. Various sides tried to…
Meteb in talks with Standard, rejects QPR
CAIRO: Egypt striker Emad Meteb welcomes interest from Belgian club Standard Liege as his exit from Ahly seems imminent. "I met with officials from Standard and Meteb seems to be…
ElBaradei more determined to fight for change
CAIRO: Reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei announced that he agreed with a number of leftist leaders and members of the "Leftists for ElBaradei" campaign to participate in his campaign for reform…
Egyptian journalist granted Samir Kassir Award
CAIRO: An Egyptian journalist was granted the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press for an article exposing several human rights violations in an Egyptian tobacco factory. In her…
OPEC says no room for more supplies; 2010 surplus
LONDON: The oil market has no room for more crude supplies, OPEC said on Wednesday as it trimmed its forecast for world oil demand growth in 2010 and hiked its…
Rights group condemns continued detention of political activists
CAIRO: At a press conference organized by the Hisham Mubarak Law Center (HMLC) Wednesday, the wife of Bedouin writer and political activist Mossad Abu Fagr condemned the continued detention of…
Total, Abengoa to build UAE solar power plant
ABU DHABI: France's Total, Spain's Abengoa and the United Arab Emirates's Masdar will build a 100 megawatt concentrated solar power (CSP) plant southwest of Abu Dhabi, Masdar said in a…
Essdar buys debt of troubled Oman property project
DUBAI: UAE-based investment fund Essdar Capital, which bought the senior debt of the troubled $15 billion Blue City property development in Oman, plans to focus on developing hotels and tourism…
AgBank closes in on investors, size of IPO
SHANGHAI/BEIJING: The Agricultural Bank of China plans to sell a greater-than-expected amount of its roughly $20 billion initial public offering to pre-IPO investors such as Middle East and Asian sovereign…
NDP wins 80 seats in Shoura Council poll, says Electoral Commission
CAIRO: The Ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) has won 80 of 88 seats in the Shoura Council mid-term elections, the Supreme Electoral Commission announced in a conference Wednesday following…