Farag reveals Ahly regret
CAIRO: Ahly striker Ahmed Hassan Farag said that he regrets moving to the Red Devils from Ghazl Mahalla last summer.Farag had very few minutes of playing with Ahly so far…
Soliman defends Zamalek's young selections
CAIRO: Zamalek trainer Moemen Soliman defended the coaching staff s decision to field several youth players in the 1-0 defeat to Ismaili on Sunday.Hazem Emam jr., Ahmed Ibrahim, Alaa Ali…
Case of jailed Egyptian doctors in Saudi exposes injustice, says activist
CAIRO: Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit's statement that arguably downplayed the imprisonment and lashing of two Egyptian doctors in Saudi Arabia has drawn mixed reactions from the doctors' families and…
UNDP report calls for more attention to Upper Egypt
CAIRO: Upper Egypt needs more attention, more developmental projects and more investments, said the latest United Nations Development Project (UNDP) report on human development covering eight Egyptian governorates. Although the…
Mahalla factory workers reject company offer, continue sit-in
CAIRO: Workers from the Ghazl El-Mahalla spinning factory have rejected an offer made by company management and the head of the Egyptian Federation of Trade Unions (EFTU) and vowed to…
Traders blame high prices for low demand on cattle prior to Eid Al-Adha
CAIRO: Eid Al-Adha is less than a week away and many cattle traders around the capital are still tending to most of their live stock instead of having already sold…
Middle East priorities for January 21
WASHINGTON, DC: The election of Barack Obama to be the 44th president is profoundly historic. We have at long last been able to come together in a way that has…
The death of NATO
LONDON: NATO, whose foreign ministers will meet next week, is dying. Death, of course, comes to all living things. And, as NATO approaches its 60th birthday next spring, there seems…