Police continue arrests of Brotherhood members
CAIRO: Police on Sunday detained 100 Muslim Brotherhood activists as part of a crackdown on the Islamist opposition group to undermine its campaign against emergency laws, the group s deputy…
All options still on the table regarding Iran
CAIRO: In a brief visit to Egypt last week, U.S. Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, Robert Joseph further rallied Egypt s support for American efforts to end…
MTC to highlight potential of Egypt's telecom sector at Kuwait in Egypt week
KUWAIT: Under the auspices of Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, the Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) will sponsor the second Kuwait Week in Egypt conference in Cairo from April 17-19. With Kuwait…
Arab film festival in NY is shouting to be heard
NEW YORK: More than 30 movies from the Arab and Muslim world will be playing at a week-long New York film festival, but will anybody be watching? The Alwan Film…
Setting Alexandria ablaze
ALEXANDRIA: Egyptian police fired live ammunition into the air and lobbed tear gas into rioting crowds of Christians and Muslims Sunday in a third day of sectarian violence in Egypt…
Fourth Egyptian woman dies of bird flu
CAIRO: Egypt said on Thursday a fourth woman had died after being infected with the bird flu virus, the state MENA news agency said. The latest victim was an 18-year-old…
Egypt blocks sale of ship by owner of ferry that sank in the Red Sea
CAIRO: State prosecutors on Thursday blocked the sale of a ship by the owner of the shipping line whose ferry sank in the Red Sea two months ago with the…
Rights advocates welcome the release of Islamist prisoners
CAIRO: Rights advocates hailed the release of 950 former militants from the Gamaa Al-Islamiya, a reformed Islamist group that participated in the Islamist insurgency that gripped the country in the…
One killed, five wounded in church stabbings
CAIRO: A mentally ill Egyptian man killed a worshipper and wounded five others on Friday in knife attacks at two Coptic Christian churches in the coastal city of Alexandria, the…
Nour files petition against writing ban Egypt's
CAIRO: Jailed opposition leader Ayman Nour filed a petition Wednesday accusing prison authorities of banning him from writing articles for his party newspaper, his wife said Gamila Ismail added that…