Prisoner swap talks enter critical phase in Israel
JERUSALEM: Marathon top-level Israeli meetings ended early Tuesday without announcement of a decision over whether to accept Islamic militants demand to swap 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for a lone Israeli serviceman.A…
Iran makes new bid for improving ties with Arabs
CAIRO: Iran made a new offer for resolving tensions with Arab nations, an Egyptian official said Monday, and Egypt s president flew to the Persian Gulf in an unexpected visit…
Digging continues on Rafah border, but work on steel wall temporarily suspended
CAIRO: Construction work is still ongoing on the border with the Gaza Strip, but for the past two days there has been no erecting of the infamous underground steel wall.Eyewitnesses…
Egypt focuses on spurring trade, promoting industry in 2009
CAIRO: The key events of the year demonstrate the ongoing balancing act between the Egyptian government's attempts at economic reform and its obligation to provide for low-income citizens. Although Egypt's…
Egypt, Russia to negotiate FTA in early 2010
CAIRO: Egypt and Russia are looking to establish a free trade agreement (FTA) and may cooperate on the construction to Egypt's first nuclear power plant, officials said Wednesday.They also discussed…
Brittany Murphy had several movies in the works
Brittany Murphy was a hardworking actress who was juggling multiple movie projects in the months leading up to her unexpected death.While none of the films boasted the big budgets of…
Germany dismisses Egyptian claims to Nefertiti bust
BERLIN: German authorities on Monday again rebuffed Egyptian claims to the rightful ownership of a 3,400-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti, after a high-level meeting in Cairo.Friederike Seyfried, director of the…
US says copyright piracy in China still 'unacceptably high'
Copyright piracy in China remains at unacceptably high levels, causing serious harm to American businesses, the top US trade official said in an annual report to Congress Tuesday.US Trade Representative…
Europe's rising global role
BRUSSELS: Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, the contours of world order are still in the making. But two 'mega…
In regulation we trust?
LONDON: From next year, on swearing allegiance to the Queen, all members of Britain's House of Lords - and I am one of them - will be required to sign…
