Belgian author of bestselling Holocaust book admits survival story is not true
BOSTON: Almost nothing Misha Defonseca wrote about herself or her horrific childhood during the Holocaust was true.She did not live with a pack of wolves to escape the Nazis. She…
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OT says agrees $2.5 bln debt facilityReuters reported that regional mobile operator Orascom Telecom said on Sunday it agreed to a $2.5 billion five-year debt facility with 12 Egyptian and…
New book by Al-Zawahri rebuts jailed militants rejecting violence
CAIRO: Al-Qaeda's chief ideologue and strategist, Ayman Al-Zawahri, has published a 212-page book on militant websites slamming his former radical colleagues in Egyptian prisons for disavowing armed struggle and turning…
Stop the Gaza massacre, say protestors
CAIRO: Members of various political forces took part in a joint protest in solidarity with Gaza Monday, held at the Lawyers' Syndicate Downtown. Holding up newspaper pictures of the victims…
Egypt continues to let in Gaza's wounded
CAIRO: For the second day running Egypt has kept the Rafah border crossing open to allow wounded Palestinians from Gaza to receive treatment in Egyptian hospitals on Monday.As Gaza continues…
65 more Brotherhood members arrested ahead of municipal elections
CAIRO: At dawn on Monday security forces arrested 65 members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Sharqeya, Kafr El-Sheikh, Sohag, Gharbeya, Giza, Qena, and Menufiya, said a Brotherhood press statement.The…
ExxonMobil Egypt to launch textile industry lubricants
CAIRO: ExxonMobil Egypt is set to launch two new lubricants specifically designed for the textile industries, the company announced in a statement to the press. Under Mobil brand, the two…
Abo Hadeed: first 3D game developed in the Arab world
CAIRO: Intel Corporation confirmed at Cairo ICT its support of Khayal's first-ever commercial 3D game developed in the Arab world: "Abo Hadeed. Created by three Egyptian engineers that were chosen…
Steel prices soar, fertilizers follow
CAIRO: For the fourth time this year, Al-Ezz Steel Rebars upped prices an extra LE 370 per ton this week, bringing wholesale steel prices to LE 4,580 per ton and…
Yorka returns to the stage
Yes... yes! That's it, music composer Abdel-Monem Saeid shouted at the end of a musical composition his band Yorka tried out last week during a five-hour rehearsal."How about we try…