Opposition figure Ayman Nour questioned for battery
CAIRO: Opposition figure Ayman Nour, sentenced in December to five years in prison for falsifying official documents, was questioned on Thursday for allegedly beating a member of the ruling party.…
Egypt asks a U.S. museum to return a mummy mask disappeared 45 years ago
CAIRO: Egypt has asked the St. Louis Art Museum to return a 3,000-year-old funerary mask of a mummy depicting a young lady, which it said disappeared from the Egyptian Museum…
Champions Egypt get soft African Nations Cup qualifying draw
CAIRO: The 2008 African Nations Cup qualifying draw treated newly crowned champions Egypt and runners-up Ivory Coast generously. Egypt are in Group 2 with minnows Botswana, Burundi and Mauritania and…
Word on the Street
CAIRO: Taxis are a way of life in Egypt. From the quick hop down the street to the longer drives across town. They are readily available . Should they agree…
Health officials look to assuage bird flu fears
CAIRO: Restaurants across much of the country have stopped serving chicken. Supermarkets are selling out of mineral water following word that the Nile-source drinking water may be contaminated. Multiple theories…
Press Round-up
CAIRO: Ending the week featuring almost identical front pages, with the same news, pictures and layout: Al Ahram and Al-Akhbar reported the same dominating news of bird flu and Condoleezza…
Nour says reform issue goes beyond his case
CAIRO: Jailed opposition leader Ayman Nour said Wednesday that his case represented only one of the many problems confronting the political reform movement in Egypt. "I believe that political reform…
Poultry producers suffer as government's actions questioned
CAIRO: A leading poultry producer says that it has not sold a single baby chick since the outbreak of avian flu in the country 11 days ago.Wadi Holdings breeds and…
Mubarak urged to make good on press law pledge
CAIRO: A media watchdog on Thursday urged President Hosni Mubarak to fulfill a two-year-old pledge to amend a law which lays down jail terms for journalists convicted in libel cases.…
Egypt offered in vain to help Denmark avoid cartoon crisis: FM
COPENHAGEN: The Danish government ignored several offers from Egypt to help it avoid a full-blown crisis over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed first published in Denmark, media here quoted Egypt…
