BG Egypt’s sees more gas production from WDDM
CAIRO: BG Egypt said Tuesday that gas production had started from the second stage of Phase 7 of the West Delta Deep Marine (WDDM) Concession, according to a statement. Managed…
Egypt’s Ezz Steel third-quarter net jumps
CAIRO: Egypt's largest steel producer, Ezz Steel, said on Tuesday its third-quarter net income surged from a year earlier, when lower prices and soaring costs hammered profit margins. An uprising…
Bedouin kidnap Chinese workers in Sinai
ISMAILIA: Bedouin in Egypt's Sinai Peninsulas kidnapped 25 mostly Chinese cement factory workers on Tuesday, demanding that authorities free fellow tribesmen from prison, sources from the tribe said. "We will…
Voyage to heart of Islam opens at British Museum
It is a rite that all followers of Islam are supposed to perform at least once in a lifetime, yet for the rest of the globe the hajj is veiled…
Iraq’s protest movement: despondent and divided
By Prashant Rao / AFP BAGHDAD: Nearly a year after national rallies rocked the government, Iraq's protest movement is a shadow of its former self, after the authorities cracked down and…
UN leader presses Mideast rivals back to talks
AMMAN: UN leader Ban Ki-moon was on Tuesday meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II and senior officials at the start of a Middle East peace mission to raise pressure on…
Tunisian rapper arrested over protest song
Tunisian police have arrested a young rapper, apparently over a song entitled "Nothing Has Changed" in which he denounces police abuse, his relatives told AFP. Anis Mrabti — who goes…
At least 12 militants killed in Yemen air strike
ADEN: At least 12 Al-Qaeda militants, including one wanted by the United States, were killed in a drone strike in southern Yemen, a tribal leader said in what he called…
Syrian troops push further into Damascus suburbs
BEIRUT: Syria's troops crushed pockets of resistance on Damascus' outskirts Tuesday as they advanced into suburbs briefly held by rebel forces, just hours before key UN talks over a draft…
Arab Spring, Fukushima star at hard-hitting Berlinale
Social upheaval and political awakening will form the focal themes of the 62nd Berlin film festival, director Dieter Kosslick said, as films depicting the Arab Spring and Japan's crippled Fukushima…