Lawyers elect new syndicate chief, board amid judicial, security absence
CAIRO: Following several postponements, lawyers gathered Sunday to elect a new board for their syndicate. Sunday’s syndicate elections were the first since the recent cancellation of Law 100 which imposed…
Elections to take place as scheduled; security remains a problem
CAIRO: Parliamentary elections will take place on Nov. 28 as scheduled, member of the ruling military council General Mohsen El-Fangary said following a violent crackdown on a Tahrir sit-in and…
Three killed in Cairo violence as protesters flock back to Tahrir
By Heba Fahmy CAIRO: At least three people were killed in fresh violence in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday when police backed by the army charged protesters to disperse a demonstration…
Arab League rebuffs Syria on monitors, Assad defiant
AMMAN: The Arab League said on Sunday it had rebuffed a request by Damascus to amend plans for a 500-strong monitoring mission to Syria, after President Bashar Al-Assad vowed to…
Assad partisans and opponents clash in Cairo
CAIRO: Syrian anti-regime protesters and their Egyptian supporters clashed with backers of President Bashar Al-Assad on Sunday outside the Arab League headquarters in Cairo. The anti-Assad protesters, who had set…
Stocks tumble on Cairo unrest
CAIRO: Egypt's benchmark stock index tumbled more than 2 percent on Sunday as clashes between protesters and security forces entered their second day, rattling investor confidence in the country's already…
British Muslims: active players in UK counterterrorism efforts
LONDON: Earlier this year British Prime Minister David Cameron criticized ”state multiculturalism” for encouraging people of different cultures, including Muslims, to live separate lives. While this does not in itself…
Arab Spring carves out potential role for Arab Israelis
By Natalia Simanovsky TEL AVIV: Pictures of unarmed demonstrators clashing with police and security forces have become the defining images of the Arab Spring. The wave of mass protests and demonstrations…
Yesterday
By Philip Whitfield CAIRO: …all my troubles seemed so far away. I was singing away with the Beatles not far from Tahrir Square when gunfire rang out, sirens wailed and I…
T-bills rise to 3-yr high, auction trimmed
CAIRO: Egypt's central bank reduced the size of its treasury bill auction on Sunday as yields surged to their highest level since the 2008 global economic crisis. It is the…