Egyptian Qaeda suspect arrested in Cairo
By AFP CAIRO: Authorities at Cairo airport on Thursday detained an Egyptian national suspected of belonging to Al-Qaeda in Yemen, an airport official told AFP. Rabie Abdullah, who was travelling…
Egypt bans Mubarak daughters-in-law from travel
By AFP CAIRO: The Egyptian justice ministry's fraud unit on Thursday slapped a travel ban on ousted president Hosni Mubarak's two daughters-in-law and their children, a judicial official told AFP.…
NATO to help Arab revolts ‘blossom’, says Rasmussen
MADRID: NATO is ready to help the so-called Arab Spring revolts to "well and truly blossom", the secretary general of the alliance, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said Thursday. "The changes we…
Support democracy, visit Egypt, Tunisia, minister Tweets
WARSAW: Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has used his Twitter feed to urge fellow Poles to support the fledgling democracies of Egypt and Tunisia by spending their vacations there. "Countrymen!…
Activist accused of ‘counter-revolution activities’ on hunger strike in prison
By Marwa Al-A'asar CAIRO: Activist Wael Ali Aboul-Leil accused of conducting “counter-revolutionary activities” reportedly began a hunger strike earlier this week at Tora Prison where he is being held, to…
Al-Qaeda: No. 2 al-Zawahri succeeds bin Laden
CAIRO: Al-Qaeda's longtime No. 2 leader, a doctor from a prominent Egyptian family who worked with Osama bin Laden for decades, has succeeded the slain terrorist as head of the…
Egypt spy allegations a throwback to another time
CAIRO: Egypt's arrest of a US-born Israeli on suspicion of spying for the Mossad is providing fodder for the Arab nation's military rulers to accuse outsiders of stirring post-revolutionary turmoil.…
CSR meets civil society to plot the way forward at CARE conference
CAIRO: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) executives and civil society members gathered to discuss how to harness the drive of the private sector and, coupled with the expertise of civil society,…
National Security to serve the people not the government, says minister
By Heba Fahmy CAIRO: Minister of Interior Mansour El-Essawy stressed on Wednesday that the National Security Agency won’t interfere in the political arena, unlike its disbanded predecessor, the State Security Investigations…
Differing viewpoints on achieving social justice in Egypt
By Heba Fahmy CAIRO: “Despite the kind of government that comes next, be it liberal, leftist or Islamist, they can all agree on the importance of implementing social justice,” member of…