Military police ‘punishing’ protesters, not maintaining order, says Amnesty
CAIRO: Video footage of the crackdown on protesters by security forces suggests that military police were aiming to punish demonstrators rather maintain law and order, Amnesty International said Tuesday. “Available…
Naked truth
By Philip Whitfield CAIRO: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Though Shakespeare gets praise for it William Congreve wrote it in The Mourning Bride. There are moments when a…
Clinton attacks Egypt ‘disgrace’ to women
By Shaun Tandon / AFP WASHINGTON: An impassioned Hillary Clinton on Monday accused post-revolution Egypt of failing its women as she denounced the stripping and beating of a female protester as…
Military police ‘punishing’ protesters, not maintaining order, says Amnesty
CAIRO: Video footage of the crackdown on protesters by security forces suggests that military police were aiming to punish demonstrators rather maintain law and order, Amnesty International said Tuesday. “Available…
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…