Egypt blames same Bedouin group for all Sinai attacks

CAIRO: Egypt blamed suicide attacks in the Sinai Peninsula this week on local Bedouins linked to an Islamic radical group also responsible for other bloody bombings in Red Sea resorts…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Egypt needs bird flu awareness says WHO

CAIRO: Egypt needs to raise public awareness of how to avoid bird flu, which the government says has killed one person and infected four others this month, a World Health…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Press round-up

CAIRO: While newspapers were preoccupied with the judges sit-in and the repercussions of last week s brief sectarian strife in Alexandria, the Sinai bombings exploded onto the scene. This dominaed…

Sarah El Sirgany

Calls to prayer to be synchronized in Cairo

CAIRO: The government has agreed to buy 4,000 wireless receivers for a project to synchronize the call to prayer from all state-run mosques in the Cairo area, the state news…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Police use force to disperse protestors in Egypt

CAIRO: Police attacked demonstrators Thursday rallying in support of two pro-reform judges who had been hauled before a disciplinary board for accusing the judiciary of helping fix elections. The hearing,…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Word on the Street

CAIRO: On Monday, Egypt and the entire region were rocked by the triple bombings that struck Dahab in the Sinai and claimed the lives of 24 people, while injuring dozens…

Ahmad Aboul-Wafa

Nordic lovers defy Dahab bloodbath to wed

DAHAB, Egypt: We had to show the bombers. We believe in love, said Icelander Anak Aldin, who tied the knot with his girlfriend in Dahab amid the carnage of Monday…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Bourse dismisses Dahab but Sinai blasts bite

CAIRO: The bourse opened strongly on Wednesday as investors shrugged off bomb attacks in the coastal resort of Dahab two days ago, but two mid-session bombings in north Sinai wiped…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Tourism tipped to bounce back from attacks

CAIRO: The deadly blasts in Dahab are bound to cause short-term damage to Egypt s vital tourism industry, but it has bounced back from previous strikes. Health and security officials…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

BREAKING NEWS: Al Jazeera bureau chief detained by Egyptian police

CAIRO: Police detained Al Jazeera television s Cairo bureau chief, accusing him of spreading false information while reporting the Sinai bombings, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday. An Interior Ministry…

Daily Star Egypt Staff