Police detain illegal African migrants, kill smuggler
AL-ARISH: Egyptian authorities on Saturday swooped on a suspected people trafficking safe house detaining 30 African migrants, and in a separate raid shot dead an Egyptian smuggler.Police arrested the Africans…
Sixteen Muslim Brothers detained during by-election
CAIRO: Security forces arrested 16 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the main opposition group in Egypt, during by-elections in the north of the country on Sunday, a security official said.Twelve…
Sarkozy, Mubarak launch Union for Mediterranean
PARIS: French President Nicolas Sarkozy and more than 40 leaders opened a summit on Sunday to launch a new union of Mediterranean nations amid hopes it could bring fresh impetus…
Officials from 43 nations from Mediterranean's shores gather in Paris to launch regional union
PARIS: More than 40 nations home to 800 million people were set Sunday to join in a Union for the Mediterranean, a vast though vague body its boosters hope can…
Al-Beshir indictment might be precedent to bring other state leaders to trial
CAIRO: If, as is expected, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announces today the indictment of Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Beshir for war crimes in Darfur,…
Investors should buy back into CASE 30, recommends EFG
CAIRO: On the heels of Egypt s latest stock market collapse, investment bank EFG-Hermes recommended buying back into CASE 30 index major constituents, expecting the market to enter a bull…
A KHAWAGA'S TALE: An Egyptian in Paris
AIX LES BAINS: How very French; sitting in a side walk café discussing philosophy, on a sunny weekday morning over coffee with an Egyptian expatriate.Emad Hassan, formerly of Alexandria, has…
The consequences of war against Iran
Recollections of the past are indeed subjective and history can often sharply illuminate the conditions of the present as well as the particularities of the past. Today, the recurring patterns…
Little big men
History is often written in terms of military heroes, but the enormous potential of human leadership ranges from Attila the Hun to Mother Teresa. Most everyday leaders remain unheralded. The…
The death of the globalization consensus
The world economy has seen globalization collapse once already. The gold standard era - with its free capital mobility and open trade - came to an abrupt end in 1914…