Egypt’s Amr Mohamed wins global Space Lab competition
CAIRO: Egyptian high school student Amr Mohamed won the global YouTube Space Lab competition, which will see the experiment he presented taken to space through the National Aeronautics and Space…
SCAF slams MB statement doubting the transparency of presidential election
By Safaa Abdoun CAIRO: In a statement read on state TV Sunday afternoon, Field Marshal Tantawi said that doubting the transparency of the upcoming presidential election and the constitutional referendum is…
Arab Spring asylum seekers surged into EU in 2011
By Claire Davenport / Reuters BRUSSELS: Asylum seekers from Arab Spring countries and West African nations suffering civil strife surged into Europe last year at a time when European politicians are talking…
Egypt tumbles on energy woes; most Gulf bourses rise
By Patrick Werr and Nadia Saleem / Reuters CAIRO/DUBAI: Egypt's bourse made its largest single-day loss in four months as fresh political tensions, gasoline shortages and a transport strike hurt investor…
Ahmadinejad urges unity against ‘aggression’
By AFP DUSHANBE: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on regional powers Sunday to unite against "aggression" as he gathered with his counterparts from Afghanistan and Pakistan for security talks. Ahmadinejad said…
Tunisia to elect post-uprising parliament by March
By Tarek Amara / Reuters TUNIS: Tunisians are likely to vote for their first full post-revolutionary parliament in just under a year's time, a government official told Reuters on Saturday. Since…
Israel weighs UN rights council boycott
By AFP JERUSALEM: Israel should boycott the United Nations Human Rights Council after it voted to authorize a probe of Israeli settlements, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told public radio on…
EU names 17 Iranians sanctioned over human rights
By Justyna Pawlak and Marcus George / Reuters BRUSSELS/DUBAI: The European Union has imposed sanctions on 17 Iranian officials, including prominent members of the government and the judiciary it says play…
Bahrain police battle to control streets in flashpoint town
By Andrew Hammond / Reuters SITRA: Bahraini police clashed with anti-government protesters on Saturday at a Shia town where residents tried to demonstrate against the Gulf Arab state's holding of a…
Obama pledges ‘non-lethal’ aid for Syria rebels
By Dmitry Zaks / AFP MOSCOW: US President Barack Obama pledged Sunday to send "non-lethal" aid to the Syrian rebels while peace envoy Kofi Annan piled diplomatic pressure on the regime…