US used NGOs to create chaos in Egypt, says minister
CAIRO: A minister seen as the driving force behind impending trials of democracy activists, including 19 Americans, had told investigators that Washington funded their groups to create a state of…
France Tel, Sawiris reach accord on Mobinil
PARIS: France Telecom said it had reached a preliminary accord to buy out most of Egyptian tycoon Naguib Sawiris' stake in their jointly owned telecom operator Mobinil, in a deal…
Protester dies of wounds a week after clashes
CAIRO: A protester died of his wounds on Sunday after he was injured in clashes with police last week, the official MENA news agency said. His death at a Cairo…
UN consultant shot dead in Egyptian capital
CAIRO: A United Nations freelance consultant was fatally shot in the head while driving through an upscale Cairo neighborhood on Sunday, Egyptian security officials said, as concerns persist over a…
Labor activist, journalist, two others arrested for ‘inciting civil disobedience’
CAIRO: Veteran labor unionist Kamal El-Fayoumi was arrested in the industrial city of Mahalla along with an Australian journalist, an American student, a translator and a driver on allegations of…
Security, football federation, Port Said stadium authority responsible for massacre, says PA report
CAIRO: The preliminary report by a parliamentary fact-finding committee probing the Feb. 1 Port Said football massacre that left 71 dead placed the political responsibility for the events on security…
Calls for general strike see limited appeal
CAIRO: Marking a year since ousted President Hosni Mubarak handed over power to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) on Feb. 11, 2011, university students have called for…
Arabs to end Syrian mission, seek UN force
CAIRO: Arabs will end their observer mission to Syria and will ask the UN Security Council to send an international peacekeeping force to end the bloodshed there, according to a…
UN consultant shot dead in Egyptian capital
CAIRO: The United Nations says one of its freelance consultants was fatally shot in the head while driving through an upscale Cairo neighborhood. An Egyptian security official says the woman…
CAF gives $150,000 to Port Said victims’ families
LIBREVILLE, Gabon: The Confederation of African Football says it will give $150,000 to families of the victims of violence at a football match in Egypt. CAF's donation for those affected…