Rafah Crossing set for two day opening next week
CAIRO: The Rafah border crossing will be opened for two days next Tuesday to allow Palestinians in Gaza to enter Egypt and vice-versa.Palestinians currently in Egypt will be allowed to…
Egypt guards kill 4 Africans migrants near Israel
RAFAH: Egyptian border guards have fatally shot four African men and wounded three others trying to cross the border with Israel.Security and hospital officials say the men were a group…
Settlements, talks must come before normalization, says Aboul Gheit
CAIRO: Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said Tuesday that Israel would have to revive peace talks and freeze settlement construction before Arab states take steps toward a normalization of…
Enough is enough of migrant killings, says Amnesty
CAIRO: The Egyptian authorities must rein in their border guards, Amnesty International said on Wednesday, a day after four migrants from sub-Saharan Africa were shot dead near the Israeli border.…
Hamas produces and smuggles weapons: Meshaal
KHARTOUM: The political supremo of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, said his group produces and smuggles weapons, during a visit to Sudan on Wednesday. Your brothers in Palestine,…
Hariri steps down as Lebanon prime minister-designate
BEIRUT: Saad Hariri announced on Thursday that he was stepping down as Lebanon s prime minister-designate after the Hezbollah-led opposition rejected a team he proposed earlier this week. Given that…
Air Arabia, Travco to launch budget airline in Egypt
CAIRO: Air Arabia, a low-cost carrier based in the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt's Travco Group entered into a joint venture to launch a new budget airline.The Egyptian carrier will…
Suez Canal revenues dip in August
CAIRO: After months of measured recovery, Suez Canal revenues experienced a setback this August, caused both by persistent sluggishness in the world of international trade and the predictable cyclicality of…
Egypt inflation down to 9 pct
CAIRO: Egypt's urban consumer inflation declined to 9.04 percent in the year to August 2009, from 9.98 percent the previous month, according to data released by the government statistics agency…
Egypt jumps 10 places in 'Doing Business' report
CAIRO: Egypt jumped from 116 to 106 in the World Bank-IFC "Doing Business 2010 Report, leaving it still firmly in the bottom half of the list.The International Finance Corporation (IFC),…