Snowfall in quake-hit Turkey as toll passes 500
ERCIS: Snow blanketed eastern Turkey Thursday, complicating rescue efforts and bringing more…
Arab League holds ‘frank’ talks with Assad as 19 killed
DAMASCUS: An Arab League team held "frank" talks with Syrian President Bashar…
Egypt, Israel prepare for prisoner exchange
JERUSALEM: Israel and Egypt prepared on Thursday for a prisoner swap under…
Arab Spring activists win Sakharov prize
STRASBOURG: Five Arab Spring activists have won the European parliament's Sakharov prize…
Journalists vote in delayed syndicate elections
CAIRO: Following delays that threatened postponing the elections, voting for the Journalists’…
Khaled Saeid killers get 7 years, lawyers outraged
By Mai Shams El-Din CAIRO: The Alexandria Criminal Court sentenced Wednesday two police…
Pro-Tantawi poster campaign raises controversy
CAIRO: Hundreds of posters calling on Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, head of…
UNFPA highlights challenges, opportunities as population reaches 7 bln
CAIRO: With the world’s population projected to have reached seven billion this…
Arab delegation presses Syria’s Assad on violence
BEIRUT: Senior Arab officials visiting Syria pressed President Bashar Assad on Wednesday…
Yemeni women burn their veils to protest crackdown
SANAA: Hundreds of Yemeni women on Wednesday set fire to traditional female…