Petrojet boss bashes Egyptian refereeing
CAIRO: Petrojet coach Mokhtar Mokhtar hit out at referee Tawfik Al-Sayed, who presided over the Egyptian League leaders 1-1 draw with Tersana on Thursday.The former Ahly assistant coach believes Al-Sayed…
Ismaili fed up with new signing
CAIRO: Ismaili boardroom decided to file a complaint against their newly-signed player John Jambo for persistently skipping training sessions. We decided to take action against the Nigerian player as a…
IDs to expire in seven years
CAIRO: Minister of Interior decreed that National IDs have to be renewed every seven years. Minister Habib El Adly said the computerized ID should be renewed with three months of…
Spouse swap trial postponed
CAIRO: The Agouza Misdemeanors Court postponed on Sunday the trial of the couple arrested for holding "spouse-swapping parties to Jan. 3.Two months ago defendants Tolbah Abdel Hafez, a 48-year-old civil…
Egypt markets down slightly in low volume
CAIRO: Egyptian markets ended slightly lower on Sunday, as many big cap stocks slipped and a lack of global trading muted price movements in low-volume trade. The benchmark CASE 30…
Orascom to launch 3G service in N. Korea
CAIRO: Egypt s Orascom Telecom will launch 3G mobile telephone service in North Korea on Monday, the company said, taking to the next step an ambitious multimillion dollar project in…
Egypt police kill Togolese migrant at Israel border
CAIRO: Egyptian border police shot dead a Togolese migrant as he tried to enter Israel illegally, a security official said on Saturday.The 25-year-old was shot in the head near the…
Security Council mulls text in support of Mideast peace
UNITED NATIONS: UN Security Council envoys huddled behind closed doors Saturday to mull a text in support of the Middle East peace process which their ministers plan to adopt here…
Hamas rules out renewing truce
CAIRO: Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said on Sunday it was unlikely that a truce with Israel in and around the Gaza Strip would be renewed when it expires next week.His…
OPEC divisions again on display heading to Algeria
CAIRO: OPEC, the oil-producing group that consumers worldwide love to hate, is fine tuning its strategy heading into a meeting this week in Algeria, determined that its fourth attempt in…