Egypt police discover 114 migrants in truck
CAIRO: Egyptian police have detained 114 sub-Saharan African migrants who were found packed into a single truck in the Sinai peninsula, the state news agency MENA reported on Monday.Police regularly…
Oil price surges past $50 as OPEC output cut looms
LONDON: The price of New York crude oil soared above $50 per barrel to a two-week high point on Monday, as the market was driven by expectations that OPEC will…
Egyptian stocks recover on foreign buying
CAIRO: The Egyptian stock market rose on Monday as non-Arab foreigners started buying again, focusing on big cap companies with London listings, brokers said. The foreigners were net buyers by…
Naguib Sawiris arrives in NKorea
SEOUL: The head of an Egyptian firm which is launching a mobile phone service in North Korea arrived Monday in the capital Pyongyang, official media in the secretive communist state…
Average yield slips on 182-day Egypt T-bills
CAIRO: average yield on Egyptian 182-day treasury bills fell to 11.635 percent at an auction on Monday, down from 11.763 percent at the last auction on Dec. 1.The central bank…
News in brief
Egyptian nuclear station consultant house to be named next week, says ministerEgyptian Electricity Minister Hassan Younis said the name of the consulting house for the Egyptian nuclear station would be…
Iconic Marilyn Monroe photos to auction
Famous Marilyn Monroe photographs, including her iconic, dress-lifting pose over a hot air vent, are due to be auctioned today in New York.Christie s auctioneers describe the collection as the…
Egypt protest as rickshaw driver sets self on fire
CAIRO: Hundreds of Egyptians demonstrated in Alexandria on Monday after a motor rickshaw driver doused himself in fuel and set himself on fire to protest a traffic fine, a police…
Seven Egyptians rescued after ship sinks off Cyprus
NICOSIA: Seven Egyptian sailors were rescued off the Cyprus coast after their cargo ship sank but three crew members remain unaccounted for, Cypriot authorities said on Monday.A Cyprus police helicopter…
