Witness intimidation continues in Khaled Saeid death case, say lawyers
By Ingy Hassieb and Sarah Carr CAIRO: El Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of the Victims of Violence filed a complaint with the attorney general Saturday, demanding that the intimidation of…
Gharbeya lawyers may hold strike after Judges’ Club ‘threat’, says lawyer
CAIRO: Lawyers in Gharbeya governorate may hold an open strike if the head of the Judges’ Club opens an investigation into an incident where hundreds of lawyers held the Attorney…
Peace demands courage
WASHINGTON DC: Too often Israeli-Palestinian relations are seen as a zero-sum conflict in which whatever is good for one party is bad for the other. In reality, both parties, for…
Europe’s Banks, Europe’s crisis
BRUSSELS: Europe continues to constitute the epicenter of Act II of the global financial crisis, which has now mutated into a sovereign-debt crisis within the eurozone. How could this happen…
How inequality fueled the crisis
CHICAGO: Before the recent financial crisis, politicians on both sides of the aisle in the United States egged on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the giant government-backed mortgage agencies, to…
Crisis on the Nile: an Egyptian view
It was one sole paragraph in one article of a multi-article agreement that triggered a semi-crisis situation among the Nile basin states. Paragraph B, article 14 turned a promise of…
Yahoo signs distribution deal with Rotana
American internet services giant Yahoo has signed a distribution agreement with Saudi media conglomerate Rotana, the largest media company in the Arab world. The deal, one of the…
Secular Copts present own version of unified personal status bill
CAIRO: The Secular Copts group presented to the Ministry of Justice last week its version of the unified personal status draft law for non-Muslims, which is currently being prepared by…
Israel PM to discuss peace moves with Mubarak
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he will head to Egypt this week to update Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on latest developments in talks with the Palestinians.…
Europe court halts extradition to US of radical cleric Hamza
STRASBOURG: The European Court of Human Rights blocked Thursday the extradition from Britain to the United States of radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza Al-Masri and three other men facing terror…