G8 raises Arab Spring financing pledge to $38 bln
MARSEILLE: Group of Eight finance chiefs pledged $38 billion on Saturday in financing to Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Jordan over 2011-13, widening a deal agreed in May and offering Libya…
Egypt core inflation eases to 6.98 pct in Aug
CAIRO: Egypt's core annual inflation dropped to 6.98 percent in the year to August from 8.71 percent in July, the country's central bank said on its website on Sunday. Core…
Egypt stocks drop on Israeli Embassy attack
CAIRO: Egypt's benchmark stock index fell slightly on Sunday, weighed down by investor unease after the storming of Israel's embassy and protests in Cairo over the weekend. Inflation, meanwhile, eased…
Egyptian shot at Israel border dies as ties strain
CAIRO: Egyptian policemen shot on the border with Israel last month has died of his injuries, a human rights group said Sunday, bringing to six the number of those killed…
Muslim Brotherhood seek ‘revision’ of ties with Israel
CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood on Sunday demanded a "revision" of relations with Israel and denounced heightened security measures imposed after protesters stormed the Israeli embassy. Israel "must have…
Changes to Egypt visa regulations revoked
CAIRO: Egypt’s government decided to freeze a decision that would require visitors to obtain visas in advance, a tourism ministry official told Daily News Egypt. “The decision would have had…
Yearning to breathe free
By Philip Whitfield SHARM EL SHEIKH: The unexpected consequences of the Arab Spring are as clear as the crystal waters of the Red Sea that lap ever so gently around my…
From 9/11 to the Arab Spring
By Omar Ashour CAIRO: Al-Qaeda’s operating environment today is vastly different from the one in which it launched its most notorious operation, the 9/11 terror attacks. Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda’s founder…
Dispersing the terrorist storm
By Radek Sikorski WARSAW: On Sept. 11, 2001 at three p.m., Warsaw time, I was talking on the telephone with Poland’s Consul General in New York. She informed me that two…
A watershed doctrine for America
By Bennett Ramberg LOS ANGELES: As the United States stumbles through its economic challenges at home, the pressure of world events will not subside. But America’s ability to address them has…