An Israeli View: Abbas juggles initiatives while Israel takes none
By Yossi Alpher The Israeli-Palestinian peace process was dead well before the Arab revolutionary wave began a little over a year ago. Nor does it appear likely that the Arab revolutions,…
The ethics of internet piracy
By Peter Singer PRINCETON: Last year, I told a colleague that I would include internet ethics in a course that I was teaching. She suggested that I read a recently published…
New research may hold key to Indonesia’s church-building controversy
By Testriono JAKARTA: In Bogor, a city in Indonesia’s West Java province, the Presbyterian congregation GKI Yasmin has been prohibited by the local administration from holding services in their church for…
The Chancellor who played with fire
By Joschka Fischer BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel should be happy nowadays: her party’s approval ratings aren’t bad, and her own are very good. She no longer has serious rivals within…
Egypt bourse suspends trading on OTMT, Mobinil
CAIRO: Shares in Orascom Telecom Media and Technology (OTMT) and Mobinil have been suspended pending issuance of a joint statement by Mobinil's shareholders, OTMT and France Telecom over Mobinil's fate,…
November mobile phone subscriptions up 22 pct
CAIRO: The number of mobile phone subscriptions in Egypt grew by 22 percent to 81.7 million users in the year to November, government figures showed on Sunday. The number of…
Egypt detains Australian journalist, US student
CAIRO: Egyptian authorities have detained an Australian journalist and an American student on suspicion they had distributed cash to workers and incited them to take part in a strike demanding…
Egypt-US row over aid workers can be ‘resolved’, says McCain
WASHINGTON: Top US Senator John McCain said Saturday that a diplomatic row with Egypt over the planned trial in Cairo of several workers from American pro-democracy groups can be resolved…
US general discusses crackdown with Egypt ruler
CAIRO: The United States' top general discussed an Egyptian crackdown on Western-funded pro-democracy groups with the head of the country's ruling military council, as another two foreigners were arrested on…
Tribesmen release Korean tourists in Sinai
AL-ARISH: Three South Korean women were freed on Saturday a day after they were kidnapped by armed tribesmen in Egypt's Sinai peninsula when clan elders negotiated their release, a security…