Officers to face trial for Port Said massacre; Ultras march for justice
By Mai Shams El-Din CAIRO: Prosecutor General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud referred Thursday 75 defendants, including nine policemen, to court for their alleged involvement in the Port Said football massacre. "The accused…
Egypt says ready to hand back Libya former regime members
By AFP CAIRO: The Egyptian foreign ministry said Thursday it was in talks with Tripoli over a request to hand back members of slain dictator MoamAr Qaddafi’s regime seeking refuge…
Agriculture ministry to order FMD vaccinations
By Safaa Abdoun CAIRO: Minister of Agriculture Mohamed Reda Ismail said that all financial resources needed to import the necessary vaccinations to combat Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) are available, and…
Syrians have a long memory
By Murhaf Jouejati Assuming that the Assad regime is about to collapse — many indications support this assumption — Russian-Syrian relations are set to go south in the post-Assad era. This…
Democratic inequality
By Raghuram Rajan CHICAGO: Why did the household savings rate in the United States plummet before the Great Recession? Two of my colleagues at the University of Chicago, Marianne Bertrand and…
The Arab Spring: good or bad for the Palestinian cause?
By Dawoud Abu Lebdeh JERUSALEM: It’s been over a year since the start of a wave of revolutions that brought down the rulers of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen, one after…
Climate-Smart Smallholders
By Paul Kagame and Kanayo F. Nwanze KIGALI: Until the world’s small farmers adopt a series of necessary changes, climate talks such as the United Nations Rio+20 Summit, which will take…
Army gains ground on anniversary of Syria uprising
By Crispian Balmer and Dominic Evans / Reuters BEIRUT: Syria marked the first anniversary on Thursday of an increasingly bloody uprising against President Bashar Al-Assad, with recent army gains unlikely to…
Ousted leader undermining Al-Qaeda fight, say Yemenis
By Ahmed Al-Haj and Aya Batrawy / AP SANAA: It was a stunning attack by Al-Qaeda in a country that is one of the world's hottest fronts against the terror…
Worries over Iranian Jews if Israel attacks
By Amy Teibel / AP JERUSALEM: All but lost amid the heated talk about a possible Israeli attack on Iran's suspect nuclear program are the thousands of Jews who live in…