Egypt eyes wheat trade with Iran: minister
CAIRO: Egypt and Iran have held talks on the possibility of importing wheat, the trade ministry said on Sunday, in a sign of easing tensions between the two countries. Egypt…
Production line of "Peugeot PARS" launched in Egypt
CAIRO: In a ceremony attended by the senior managers of Center of Development and Commerce Wagih Abaza (CDC), major Iranian automobile manufacturer Iran Khodro and Automobiles Peugeot, the three automotive…
Egyptian student arrested in Florida on terror charges says supposed pipe bomb was fireworks
TAMPA: An Egyptian student at the University of South Florida, who is charged with trying to aid terrorists, says the supposed explosives found in his possession were just cheap fireworks…
Bedouin trade fire with border guards, teenager wounded
EL-MADFOUNA, Egypt: Bedouin protesters in the Sinai desert exchanged fire with Egyptian border guards on Friday, seriously wounding a 13-year-old demonstrator when an anti-government protest spiraled out of control, witnesses…
Palestinian students allowed into Egypt
CAIRO: More than 250 Palestinian students from the isolated Gaza Strip were allowed into Egypt Sunday after having been prohibited from leaving the territories for months.Palestinian officials told AFP that…
Inquest into Ashraf Marwan case postponed
CAIRO: British authorities have asked to further postpone sending the case of businessman Ashraf Marwan to court while they continue to pursue their investigations.Marwan died in suspicious circumstances on June…
Orascom Telecom sells Iraqna to Kuwaiti Zain
CAIRO: Orascom Telecom quit its operations in Iraq and sold its Iraqi mobile phone operator Iraqna for $1.2 billion to Kuwait's Mobile Telecommunications Co (Zain), allowing the Egyptian operator to…
Google restores YouTube account of activist blogger
CAIRO: Google has restored the YouTube account belonging to Award-winning Egyptian rights activist and blogger Wael Abbas. The leading video-sharing website pulled the plug on Abbas page a few days…
Matt Dillon discusses career in festival's dullest conference
In one of the most peculiar, dull and yawn-inducing press conferences of the festival so far, American star Matt Dillon was showered with typical questions about his career and the…
Dollars and Depression
The falling dollar has emerged as a source of profound global macroeconomic distress. The question now is how bad that distress will become. Is the world economy at risk? There…