Ex-PM says Sudan rejects UN in Darfur as it seeks to win conflict
Associated Press CAIRO: The main Sudanese opposition leader says the government is refusing to allow UN peacekeepers in Darfur because it knows the UN troops would help hunt down war…
EFA supports Egyptian Olympic team by postponing league games
CAIRO: The Egyptian Football Association (EFA) has decided to postpone the 23rd round of the premier league that was scheduled for March 8, spokesman Medhat Shalabi said on Wednesday.Shalabi said…
Al Ahly delegation survives scare at Johannesburg Airport
CAIRO: Al Ahly delegation survived a potential plane crash while landing at the OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, the club's official website reported on Thursday.The African champions were making…
Lucky strikes a bad idea
Everyone agrees that deciding soccer matches with penalty kicks is a bad idea - everybody, that is, except Egyptians. Egypt won last year's African Cup of Nations and Egypt's Ahly…
Al-Ahly football team launch challenge for African Champions League record win
CAIRO: Al-Ahly of Egypt launches their challenge for a record third consecutive African Champions League title at Highlanders of Zimbabwe Sunday. It is one of 15 second round, first leg…
Heroine dealers rape pregnant woman and her mother
CAIRO: A 53-old woman and her pregnant daughter were abducted and raped in the Fayed desert, Al Masaa daily reported. The rapists intercepted a car along the Cairo-Ismailia road, fired…
Egypt Kuwait Holding 2006 net profit up 1.7 percent
CAIRO: Egypt Kuwait Holding made consolidated net profit of $56.18 million in 2006, 1.7 percent up on 2005, the company said in a statement released through the stock exchange on…
Five-year plan targets $210.5 billion of investments
CAIRO: The Minister of Economic Development Osman Mohammad Osman said the investment target of the government s new five-year plan (2007-2012) amounts to LE 1,200 billion of which the private…
Shares fall 3 percent, cement and steel sectors hit after new duties
CAIRO: Two of the main national stock indexes fell more than 3 percent on Wednesday on the back of a global market sell-off, with the cement and steel sectors also…