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…
SCAF blames violence on ‘methodical plot’ to ruin Egypt, MPs declare open sit-in
CAIRO: The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) blamed the recent violence on provocateurs with a systematic plan to bring Egypt down, saying military forces exercised self-restraint in the…
Health ministry raises death toll to 12 as Cairo clashes continue
By Safaa Abdoun CAIRO: Two people were announced dead on Monday as the crackdown on protesters by security forces continued in downtown Cairo, raising the death toll to 12, according to…
Murmurs of dissent in Maspero turn loud
CAIRO: As a ruling army council general criticized on Monday the media’s "incitement" against the military during ongoing violence near the Cabinet building, dissenting state media reporters in Maspero vocally…
Renewed clashes add pressure to Egypt’s struggling economy
CAIRO: Egypt’s main index recouped Monday some of the previous day's losses, ending up 0.51 percent, after renewed violence around Cairo’s Tahrir Square again raised concerns over the state of…
Etihad snaps up stake in debt-laden Air Berlin
FRANKFURT: Etihad Airways threw a lifeline to ailing Air Berlin and gained access to more European routes by raising its stake in the German airline to 30 percent and lending…
Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Holding eyes Twitter IPO, big returns
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding, controlled by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, would be interested in participating in any initial public offering by microblogging site Twitter, a senior executive…