Iberdrola's first Snoehvit deal gas comes from Egypt
LONDON: Spanish power company Iberdrola has received the first shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) under a deal it has with the developers of Norway s yet-to-start Snoehvit gas field,…
Egypt demands more compensation for oil spill
ISMAILIA: A Liberian tanker impounded in Egypt for spilling oil in the Suez Canal is facing more than LE 50 million ($8.7 million) in compensation demands, a Canal Authority official…
Enel says no change to Weather Investments stake
MILAN: Italian power company Enel said on Friday it is not in talks to end its 26 percent stake in Weather Investments, in response to a newspaper report that it…
An Egyptian intellectual's unlikely quest for religious change
Agence France-PresseCAIRO: Gamal Al-Banna is a Muslim scholar and younger sibling of the Muslim Brotherhood s founder, but his controversial vision of Islamic reform puts him at odds with the…
CRIME SCENE: Fire and revenge provide a fiery mix this week
Man murders wife over a cup of tea; the poorer steal from the poorCAIRO: This week's crime pages were on fire.A housewife and a child met their deaths in a…
African Nations Cup champions Egypt held in Botswana
Agence France-Presse CAIRO: Defending champions Egypt were held 0-0 away to Botswana Saturday as the second round of 2008 African Nations Cup qualifiers kicked off. The result lifted the Pharaohs…
Primetime hate mail
The stupor induced by Ramadan programming wraps its inescapable tentacles around viewersCAIRO: Ramadan primetime TV warrants hate mail, but I m too lethargic to write it. I take my prozac…
Students unite for Lebanon at film screening
CAIRO: Students poured into the screening of Lebanese film "West Beirut at the American University (AUC) in Cairo on Wednesday night. Organized by the student body "33 Days for Lebanon.…
Violence against children
A veil of silence covers violence against children, yet abuses are so pervasive that no country can ignore them, and no society can claim to be immune from them. Despite…
The Assyrians: ignored among fears of an Iraqi civil war
The world is consumed by fears that Iraq is degenerating into a civil war between Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. But in this looming war of all against all, it is…
