Editorial: On Obama and daring to dream
CAIRO: On Jan. 20, 2009 history was made when Barack Obama took the US presidential oath, placing a man from a racial minority at the helm of the world's only…
Egyptian handling of Gaza proves popular domestically
CAIRO: As Arab leaders gathered in Kuwait to much faux posturing before becoming a band of brothers again, the actions which led to much of the divisions have proved a…
Telemasr factory employees continue to protest forced early retirement
CAIRO: Around 50 of Telemasr factory's 500 employees continued their five-day "peaceful protest against the management's decision to force them to go on early retirement.The former public sector electronics factory…
Egyptian authorities arrest 11 people in baby purchase plot
CAIRO: Nine Egyptians and two American women were arrested by Egyptian authorities for allegedly trying to sell four babies, according to the Ministry of Interior.A spokesman for the Ministry of…
Lebanon's Daily Star shut down
BEIRUT: The publisher of Lebanon s only English-language daily says a court order forced the newspaper to shut down over financial troubles.Jamil Mroue says judicial authorities shut and sealed the…
Blogger heavily fined in rare case of corporate libel
CAIRO: Egyptian NGO the Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has condemned the "cruel judgment issued against a blogger convicted of defamation.Tamer Mabrouk, author of the "Egyptian Truth blog…
Sports Talk: Still occupied
Now that the Israeli blitzkrieg is over, and most international TV crews have gone elsewhere to cover the next nine o clock news crisis, it would be easy to forget…
French tourists killed in Egypt road crash
CAIRO: A French couple holidaying in Egypt was among four people killed when a truck hit their vehicle head-on Thursday on a highway near the Red Sea coast, a security…
Olympic sign former Egypt striker Abdel-Latif
CAIRO: Olympic have signed former Egypt striker Walid Abdel-Latif on a free agent, the Alexandrian club said on Thursday. We signed Abdel-Latif until the end of the season for LE…