Hadari meets Sion fans
CAIRO: Egyptian keeper Essam Al-Hadari met Sion fans in a signing session held on Wednesday night.The club s official sponsor organized a meeting between the players and the supporters in…
Saudi blogger posts Internet video response to Dutch anti-Quran film
BEIRUT: A Saudi blogger has made a short video featuring Bible texts allegedly calling for war and Christian extremists preaching violence, in response to an anti-Quran film by a Dutch…
Mideast oil powers spend their way out of economic woes: IMF
WASHINGTON: Middle East oil powers are using their increased wealth to weather the global economic strife but cannot escape the inflation that has been fueled by their main export, the…
Barclays opens Sharm El-Sheikh branch
CAIRO: Barclays Bank Egypt recently opened its 53rd Egypt branch in Sharm El-Sheikh. South Sinai Governor and Deputy Governor of the Red Sea Mohamed Hany Metwally, was there to cut…
Egyptian border guards arrest 3 Ivorians, 1 Guinean trying to sneak into Israel
AL-ARISH: A security official says Egyptian border police have arrested 4 African migrants as they tried to cross illegally into Israel.The official says the three Ivorians and a Guinean were…
US troubled by reports of flawed Egyptian local elections
WASHINGTON: The United States is criticizing local elections in Egypt.White House Press Secretary Dana Perino says the United States is troubled by reports of widespread electoral violations. Egyptians largely avoided…
King Abdullah meets Mubarak in Sharm El-Sheikh
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: Saudi King Abdullah and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met Wednesday in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh to discuss disagreements among Arab states, Lebanon s political crisis…
'New kind of terrorism' could target Egypt, says analyst
CAIRO: This week Egyptian police revealed that they are on the tail of two Sudanese men believed to be in possession of a quantity of explosives and planning attacks against…
Kefaya leader arrested after April 6 strike, more detentions expected
CAIRO: Members of the Kefaya Movement for Change held a press conference at the Journalists' Syndicate on Thursday to protest the detention of Director-General of Kefaya George Ishaq.Ishaq was arrested…
Italian trade tour seeks to bolster small business ties with Egypt
CAIRO: Amid the three-day flurry of handshaking, card trading and power lunching that defined the Confederation of Italian Industries trade tour to Egypt this week, the role of economic ties…