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Hassan Ibrahim

Pope calls for Middle East peace

VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI on Monday made a fresh appeal for…

AFP
AFP

Police detain 5 members of the Muslim Brotherhood

Police detained five members of the main opposition Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo…

AFP
AFP

Egypt concerned over Chad-Sudan conflict

CAIRO: Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit met with Chadian counterpart Ahmat…

Abdel-Rahman Hussein

Tri-party coalition seek curb on presidential terms

CAIRO: Three opposition parties - Al Wafd, Al Tagmouh, and Al Nasary…

Yasmine Saleh

James Brown, Hakim's soul brother, dead at 73

CAIRO: Legendary African-American singer James Brown died yesterday at Emory Crawford Long…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Boxing Day a good day to reflect

BOXING DAY: I missed the Queen's Christmas speech from Buckingham Palace, so…

Peter A. Carrigan

The Arab lion bares its head in Darfur's ongoing war

In the final weeks of the Darfur peace talks in Abuja, Mohamed…

Daily News Egypt

Lebanon's justice system on trial

During my visit to Lebanon in early December, I was struck by…

Daily News Egypt

Assad will abandon Iran if Israel talks peace with him

The Iraq Study Group report reached a series of obvious conclusions. Everything…

Daily News Egypt