Egyptian guards kill Eritrean migrant
AL-ARISH: Egyptian border guards shot and killed an Eritrean woman and arrested her two young daughters Saturday after they tried to cross illegally into Israel, security and medical officials said.Mervat…
Cartoon reprint a provocation, not free speech, Muslims say
CAIRO: Rioting continued into its seventh night Sunday in a number of Danish cities after more than a dozen Danish newspapers reprinted one of the controversial Prophet Mohamed cartoons.On Saturday…
El-Sadat denies expulsion from Democratic Front Party
CAIRO: In a statement to Daily News Egypt, MP Mohamed Essmat El-Sadat, vice president of the Democratic Front Party, denied newspaper reports that he was expelled from the party.El-Sadat told…
Dubai Ports acquires 90 pct of Sokhna Port Development
CAIRO: Marking its first official debut in Egypt, Dubai Port operator DP World inked a deal on Sunday to acquire a 90 percent stake in Sokhna Port Development Company for…
A jazzy afternoon at the Pyramids
The sound of big band jazz isn't heard very often in these parts. Indeed, the notion of an intimate smoky nook of a jazz bar where slick dons prop up…
A Time for Clarity
JOHANNESBURG - Terrorism and global warming loom, in many people's minds, as the greatest threats to the planet. In the United States, the Bush administration wants to increase funding for…
The siege cannot continue
Many western observers, politicians and journalists considered the breach of the Rafah crossing a victory for the Hamas movement. Some viewed it as the beginning of the end of the…
Is it a budding partnership?
Even the most skeptical of us would have to concede that things are better now than they were a few months ago, as they hasten to add that we have…
Inside the home of a torture victim
CAIRO: On the evening of Oct. 31, 2007 a young man in his early 20s called Ahmed Saber left his house to go to the shop at the end of…
Supporters of suspended MP voice their anger
CAIRO: Hundreds of outraged journalists and political activists turned out in force at the Press Syndicate Saturday evening to support suspended Karama MP Saad Aboud. In a double helping of…