Egypt to implement maximum wage as it battles budget deficit
CAIRO: Egypt's Prime Minister Kamal El-Ganzoury said Tuesday that the public sector will enforce a maximum wage 35 times that of the minimum wage, to be applied starting January 2012.…
Thousands of rare documents burned in Egypt clash
CAIRO: Volunteers in white lab coats, surgical gloves and masks were standing on the back of a pickup truck along the banks of the Nile River in Cairo, rummaging through…
Military police ‘punishing’ protesters, not maintaining order, says Amnesty
CAIRO: Video footage of the crackdown on protesters by security forces suggests that military police were aiming to punish demonstrators rather maintain law and order, Amnesty International said Tuesday. “Available…
Naked truth
By Philip Whitfield CAIRO: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Though Shakespeare gets praise for it William Congreve wrote it in The Mourning Bride. There are moments when a…
Clinton attacks Egypt ‘disgrace’ to women
By Shaun Tandon / AFP WASHINGTON: An impassioned Hillary Clinton on Monday accused post-revolution Egypt of failing its women as she denounced the stripping and beating of a female protester as…
Military police ‘punishing’ protesters, not maintaining order, says Amnesty
CAIRO: Video footage of the crackdown on protesters by security forces suggests that military police were aiming to punish demonstrators rather maintain law and order, Amnesty International said Tuesday. “Available…
Hikma gets up to $110 mln from World Bank lender
LONDON: Jordan-based Hikma Pharmaceuticals is to receive up to $110 million in debt financing from the World Bank's private-sector lender to help improve access to high-quality generic medicines in the…
Troops charge protesters in pre-dawn raid
CAIRO: Troops and riot police raided Cairo's Tahrir Square early on Tuesday in their latest attempt to evict protesters who want the ruling military to immediately step down, according to…
UN rights chief condemns Egypt’s ‘ruthless violence’
GENEVA: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, on Monday condemned Egypt's "ruthless violence" and "inhuman acts" in the suppression of protests in Cairo. Egyptian security forces have…
The intellectual and politics
By Václav Havel PRAGUE: Does an intellectual — by virtue of his efforts to get beneath the surface of things, to grasp relations, causes, and effects, to recognize individual items as…