Egypt's Raya 2009 profit dips 23 pct to $7.5 mln
Egypt’s Raya Technology and Communication made a net profit of LE 41.3 million ($7.5 million), down 23 percent on a year earlier, the stock exchange said on Tuesday. The firm,…
Egypt seeks doubling exports: Rachid
The establishment of 1,000 new factories which were part of President Hosni Mubarak’s election program have been completed, Trade and Industry Minister Rachid Mohamed Rachid told a symposium held in…
Nuclear ambitions, terrorism focus at G8 meet
GATINEAU, Canada: Group of Eight ministers gathered here Tuesday to discuss nuclear proliferation as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said China would play a role in efforts to forge…
Iranian agents free kidnapped diplomat
TEHRAN, Iran: Iran's intelligence agents mounted a "complicated" cross-border operation and freed an Iranian diplomat kidnapped in 2008 by gunmen in northwestern Pakistan, state television reported Tuesday. The agents rescued…
Darfur rebels threaten return to arms
DOHA: Darfur's main rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement, warned on Monday its forces would return to an armed struggle if talks with the Sudanese government hit a dead…
India probing multiple hijackings off Somalia
NEW DELHI: India is investigating the hijacking of several boats off the coast of Somalia amid news reports that eight vessels and 120 Indian sailors have been seized. "There is…
Kuwaiti wife gets death for lethal fire at husband wedding
KUWAIT CITY: A court on Tuesday sentenced a Kuwaiti woman to death for starting a fire that killed 57 women and children at the wedding party of her husband who…
Israelis fire on Gaza protests as Arabs mark 'Land Day'
GAZA CITY: A Palestinian teenager was killed and several others were wounded on Tuesday as Israeli troops fired on demonstrators near the Gaza border while Israeli Arabs and Palestinians marked…
Kurdish activist arrested in Syria, say rights group
DAMASCUS: Kurdish activist Mahmud Safo, a member of a banned leftist party in Syria, has been arrested by security forces in the north of the country, a Syrian rights group…
Pakistani Supreme Court ups pressure on government
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court threatened to imprison the head of Pakistan's anti-corruption agency Tuesday, as the government failed to meet a 24-hour deadline to reopen a slew of graft cases,…