British preacher Abu Hamza guilty on US terror charges
Judge Katherine Forrest will return to the Manhattan courtroom on 9 September to sentence Abu Hamza, 56, and wrap up what was the second high-profile terror trial in New York…
Spinning back time
The dancer looks up toward the heavens as he spins, whirling faster and faster until he is no longer a man, but a colourful blur. The long, sweeping skirt he…
Early indication of Al-Sisi landslide in expat vote
Foreign ministry estimates total expatriate turnout to be 315,000, some expats prefer postal vote
UPDATED: 3 police officers killed, 9 wounded in drive-by shooting
Unknown assailants attack security forces during clashes outside Al-Azhar
Tomorrow’s Egypt
By Johannes Amin Makar “For a century and a half the Arab world has been following a negative policy. It has known what it wanted to do away with, but it…
To stop terrorism, Egypt needs support and reconciliation
By Daniel Nisman When he is (eventually) elected to Egypt’s Presidency, former Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi knows the Everest of his policy goals will be restoring the country’s floundering economy.…
Israel continues spying on the US
By Dr. Cesar Chelala As Middle East peace efforts go through another round of failure, information published by Newsweek magazine indicates that Israel has been conducting spying activities in the US. Although the main targets…
Electricity theft, technical losses reach EGP 8bn annually: Ministry of Electricity
Ministries of Electricity and Petroleum have launched initiative to reduce 20% of electricity consumed annually and thereby decrease energy deficit
Electricity utility to launch notification service for outages in Cairo
New service will send notifications of location and duration of power outages to customers via SMS and is planned to be extended all over Egypt
US, EU diplomats meet Mehleb before heading to Ethiopia
The meetings come after the diplomats met with Egypt’s foreign minister and discussed the Nile water issue
