Ittihad defender fined after penalty incident
ALEXANDRIA: Ittihad defender Youssef Abdel-Rahim has been fined LE 5,000 for insisting to take a penalty kick in the 3-1 league defeat to Petrojet at the weekend.Abdel-Rahim stepped in and…
Shehata calls up Shikabala for Guinea friendly
CAIRO: Zamalek playmaker Mahmoud "Shikabala Abdel-Razeq has been named by Egypt coach Hassan Shehata for the Guinea friendly game to be held in Cairo on Aug. 12. The decision comes…
Egypt defeat Kuwait in Handball Junior World Cup
CAIRO: Hosts Egypt claimed their third successive win in the Men s Junior World Championship after defeating Kuwait 32-23 on Saturday.The Pharaohs ended the first period with a 15-11 lead…
Legal specialists continue sit-in
CAIRO: More than 1,000 legal specialists protested Sunday, marking the 35th day of their sit-in in front of the Ministry of Justice.Protestors urged President Mubarak to interfere and end their…
Saudi shuts TV offices over sex talk show
Saudi Arabia said on Sunday that it has closed the offices of a Lebanon-based television channel controlled by a billionaire reformist tycoon after a national boasted of his sexual exploits…
Gulf OPEC delivers over 90 pct supply cut: Kuwait
KUWAIT: Core Gulf OPEC members are delivering over 90 percent of the oil supply curbs the organization agreed last year, a Kuwait oil official told state news agency KUNA on…
ANALYSIS: Ezz spat with opposition belies internal, external conflicts
CAIRO: The spat that has ensued between Ahmed Ezz and political opposition after he criticized them indicates the level of political discourse in Egypt and the frustrations the opposition feels…
Abbas's party keeps 'right to resist,' angering Israel
BETHLEHEM: Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement renewed its charter for the first time since the launch of the Middle East peace process in 1991 but Israel reacted angrily on…
MB pulls out of parliamentary election do-over
CAIRO: Muslim Brotherhood MPs in Qaliubiya's Qanater district said they will not participate in a redo of the 2005 parliamentary elections set to take place next week.The group will, however,…