Subdued Sundance predicted as festival opens today
The 25th Sundance Film Festival gets underway Thursday with more than 100 movies due to be screened over the 10-day carnival, the world s largest marketplace for independent film.Against a…
Expert tips to surviving the financial crisis
CAIRO: "Are these bad times? The obvious answer is yes. So what do we do? Mohamed Sultan, general manager of Procter and Gamble Egypt, asked. "We focus on fundamentals that…
Orascom Telecom unit buys Namibia's Cell One
CAIRO: A subsidiary of Egyptian telecom giant Orascom Telecom (OT) has bought Namibian mobile operator Cell One in a $59 million cash deal, OT said on Wednesday. OT, the biggest…
Arab states should shun calls to invest in West, says Arab League
KUWAIT CITY: Arab countries should not bow to pressure from Western countries to use their surplus funds to help resolve the global economic crisis, an Arab League official said in…
Egypt to tell Israel Hamas 'favorable' to truce plan – Wrap, Lead
CAIRO: Egypt is to pass Hamas favorable response to a Gaza ceasefire plan to Israel, Egyptian officials said on Wednesday, as the death toll from Israel s war in the…
UN Sec Gen refuses to comment on prohibition to visit Gaza
CAIRO: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon refused to divulge whether Israel had prohibited him from visiting the Gaza Strip 19 days after the Israeli offensive. Asked at a press…
Gaza battles rage, toll passes 1,000
GAZA CITY: Israeli troops battled Palestinian gunmen on Wednesday in Gaza, where more than 1,000 people have now been killed in the war on Gaza, and rockets slammed into northern…
Egypt, Saudi slam Qatar, back Kuwait summit for Gaza talks
RIYADH/DUBAI/CAIRO: Egypt and Saudi Arabia said Tuesday they supported discussing the Gaza crisis at a Kuwait summit set for Jan. 19, rejecting Qatar s proposal for an extraordinary summit later…
Police holds Muslim Brotherhood members over Gaza protests
CAIRO: Thirty-five members of Egypt s main opposition group the Muslim Brotherhood were arrested Tuesday as they were protesting the Israeli offensive in Gaza, a security official said.Police detained 18…
Disputed Holocaust memoir could reappear as fiction
A Holocaust survivor s memoir of love in a Nazi concentration camp, which was yanked from publication recently when he admitted it was a hoax, could reappear as a work…
