Poverty: the real threat to health
A major new report from doctors at University College, London, and medical journal The Lancet claims that climate change "is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century. Their…
A De-Globalized world?
CAMBRIDGE: It may take a few months or a couple of years, but one way or another the United States and other advanced economies will eventually recover from today's crisis.…
Humans, not headlines
TEL AVIV: The news is in: Israel's press status has now been downgraded to "partly free by Freedom House, the organization dedicated to promoting democracy and civil liberties around the…
Hezbollah cell lawyer concerned by presidential statement
CAIRO: Lawyer for many of the detainees currently in custody for belonging to a Hezbollah cell, Montasser Al-Zayat announced that the anger of President Hosni Mubarak regarding this case has…
State-run union backs textile workers' strike
CAIRO: State-controlled General Trade Union of Textile Workers (GTUTW) announced its support to the five-day strike organized by Tanta Flax and Oil Company workers. The strike is scheduled to start…
Egypt YouTube pig cull clip sparks outrage
CAIRO: A YouTube video clip showing pigs being culled in Egypt as part of swine flu measures has caused outrage at the apparent barbarity of the method of slaughtering the…
WHO did not overrate swine flu, says official
CAIRO: Hassan Al-Boushra, head of World Health Organization (WHO) office in Cairo, refuted accusations by international experts and journalists who said that the organization overestimated the gravity of the A(H1N1)…
Ismaili's Gamal to have knee operation in Egypt
CAIRO: Ismaili winger Omar Gamal will undergo knee surgery in Egypt after his anterior cruciate ligament injury was confirmed. The influential midfielder, who sustained the injury in Monday s league…
Uncertainty looms over Egyptian Olympic Committee's new statute
CAIRO: The Egyptian Olympic Committee's (EOC) extraordinary general assembly postponed its elections pending the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) approval on the new charter.The elections were originally scheduled for May 15."We…