Ruling on trafficking and blood bag cases due September

CAIRO: Closure could be brought to two long-standing, unrelated legal sagas in Egypt: that of the kidnapping and "sale of babies and 200,000 bags of contaminated blood which were sold…

Daily News Egypt

34 typhoid cases reported in Qaliubiya

CAIRO: Thirty-four typhoid cases were diagnosed in two villages in Qaliubiya since Tuesday, an official statement said. The statement added that the cases are mild and that most patients were…

Yasmine Saleh

Amnesty calls for release of prisoners of conscience

CAIRO: Human rights group Amnesty International is calling for the release of jailed prisoners of conscience Musaad Abu Fagr and Kareem Amer. Amnesty International and other human rights groups consider…

Daily News Egypt

Arab health ministers to ban elderly, young from Mecca pilgrimage

CAIRO: Arab health ministers agreed on Wednesday to ban certain people including the elderly and young children from pilgrimage to Mecca in an effort to contain the spread of swine…

AFP
AFP

Ahly sign Hibs striker

CAIRO: Ahly signed Hibernians Moroccan striker Abdessallam Benjelloun, the club s marketing director Adli Al-Qaeyi told FilGoal.com.Al-Qaeyi said that the 24-year-old signed a three-year-contract with Ahly on Monday.It is yet…

filgoal.com

Ittihad to choose between Abdullah and Saied

CAIRO: Ittihad coach Taha Basri announced that his club will soon make a decision to sign either Zamalek midfielder Mohamed Abdullah or Ahmed Saied of ENPPI. We are watching both…

filgoal.com

The man who went to the moon and came back an artist

Forty years after Alan Bean became the fourth man to walk on the moon, the now 77-year-old former astronaut still likes to share his memories of space flight with a…

AFP
AFP

Saudis reel as clerics say movie show must not go on

Saudis want music and movies like everyone else, but the cancellation of the Jeddah film festival highlights the tough war over entertainment within the country s conservative religious establishment.For several…

AFP
AFP