Zamalek set to sign Mansoura hitman

CAIRO: Zamalek are close to getting Mansoura striker Mohamed Al-Morsi in January after agreeing on terms with the second division side, sources told FilGoal.com.The 25-year-old is poised to sign a…

Omar AbdelAziz

Sports Talk: Still occupied

Now that the Israeli blitzkrieg is over, and most international TV crews have gone elsewhere to cover the next nine o clock news crisis, it would be easy to forget…

Alaa Abdel-Ghani

Blogger heavily fined in rare case of corporate libel

CAIRO: Egyptian NGO the Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has condemned the "cruel judgment issued against a blogger convicted of defamation.Tamer Mabrouk, author of the "Egyptian Truth blog…

Sarah Carr

Lebanon's Daily Star shut down

BEIRUT: The publisher of Lebanon s only English-language daily says a court order forced the newspaper to shut down over financial troubles.Jamil Mroue says judicial authorities shut and sealed the…

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Egyptian authorities arrest 11 people in baby purchase plot

CAIRO: Nine Egyptians and two American women were arrested by Egyptian authorities for allegedly trying to sell four babies, according to the Ministry of Interior.A spokesman for the Ministry of…

Nader Ramadan

Telemasr factory employees continue to protest forced early retirement

CAIRO: Around 50 of Telemasr factory's 500 employees continued their five-day "peaceful protest against the management's decision to force them to go on early retirement.The former public sector electronics factory…

Yasmine Saleh

Egyptian handling of Gaza proves popular domestically

CAIRO: As Arab leaders gathered in Kuwait to much faux posturing before becoming a band of brothers again, the actions which led to much of the divisions have proved a…

Abdel-Rahman Hussein

Editorial: On Obama and daring to dream

CAIRO: On Jan. 20, 2009 history was made when Barack Obama took the US presidential oath, placing a man from a racial minority at the helm of the world's only…

Rania Al Malky