Light at the end of the tunnels?
By Philip Whitfield CAIRO: Credit where credit’s due. Mohannad Sabry, an enterprising correspondent for 30 or so American dailies filed a story this week describing the smugglers’ tunnels between Gaza and…
Turkey, Syria, Qatar to host exiled Palestinians: Hamas
GAZA CITY: A group of 40 Palestinian detainees being exiled overseas under a deal to free a captured Israeli soldier will be sent to Turkey, Syria and Qatar, Hamas said…
Arab League stops short of suspending Syria
CAIRO: Gulf countries seeking to suspend Syria's membership to the Arab League over its bloody crackdown on protesters failed to gain enough support to push the measure through, reflecting deep…
SCAF amends law penalizing discrimination, Copts say it’s ‘long overdue’
CAIRO: The Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) amended Saturday a law in the penal code to apply stricter punishments against discrimination to ease sectarian tension following deadly clashes between…
Church surveys unlicensed churches following SCAF meeting
CAIRO: Pope Shenouda discussed with two members of the ruling military council the deadly Maspero clashes and unlicensed churches in a closed meeting Sunday. Journalists weren’t allowed to attend and…
Egypt begins trial of former prime minister Ebeid
CAIRO: Egypt began the trial on Sunday of former Prime Minister Atef Ebeid and other officials accused of illegally selling an island nature reserve to a businessman close to deposed…
Egypt’s Alcotexa sells 2,757 T cotton in past week
CAIRO: Egypt's Alexandria Cotton Exporters' Association (Alcotexa) committed to sell 2,757 tons of cotton in the week that ended on Oct. 15, an Alcotexa official told Reuters on Sunday. The…
Unit of Egypt’s OCI wins a $578 mln mall contract
CAIRO: A unit of Egypt's Orascom Construction won the main €416 million ($578 million) construction contract to build a mall in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, the firm…
SODIC registers sales of $96 mln to end-Sept
CAIRO: SODIC, Egypt’s third-biggest listed real estate firm, registered almost LE 570 million ($95.6 million) worth of sales to the end of September, the firm said in a statement on…
Mobinil says customer boycott subsides
CAIRO: The number of subscribers cancelling their Mobinil subscriptions has tumbled from a peak earlier this year when some customers took offence at a cartoon posted online by the company's…