Ban urges support for Palestinian unity under Abbas
DOHA: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged Arab states to support a Palestinian reconciliation under president Mahmud Abbas, and to help in achieving a durable ceasefire in Gaza.…
Libyan leader walks out of Doha summit
CAIRO: Arab leaders convened in Doha Monday for the first of a two-day Arab summit as they attempted to heal recent rifts, apparently to no avail.Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi walked…
G8 labor ministers kick off 'social summit'
ROME: Labor ministers from the Group of Eight wealthy nations on Sunday launched a meeting to examine the human cost of the financial crisis, as an OECD report forecasts rising…
Muslim Brotherhood to participate in April 6 strike
CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood announced their participation in the coming April 6 strike, the group's deputy leader told Daily News Egypt.Mohamed Habib explained that Brotherhood students in different universities will…
INTERVIEW: McDonald's Alaa Fathy on making fast food in Egypt
CAIRO: Across the Atlantic, fast food companies - or, in the industry's preferred jargon, "quick service restaurants - have been among the few to find an upside to the global…
Euromoney insurance conference sheds light on budding industry
CAIRO: Members of the Egyptian government and business community will gather today for the first ever Euromoney Egypt Insurance Conference, to be held at the Four Seasons in Garden City.Euromoney…
Japanese flick hits on global unemployment woes
Tokyo Sonata is set in Japan's capital and brim-full of the city's culture, but director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's tale of unemployed misery has also captured the zeitgeist of the US economic…
Documentary provides cinematographic take on Egypt's past
Despite unseasonably cold weather and horrendous traffic caused by an accident on the Sixth of October bridge, last week found the Cairo Opera House's Artistic Creativity Center auditorium packed with…
US-Iranian engagement: when and how?
CHICAGO, Illinois: On Nowruz, the day when Iranians celebrate the coming of spring and the new Iranian calendar year, US President Barack Obama took the helm of American foreign policy…
The EU's hour, or Europe's darkest hour?
COPENHAGEN: So far, Europe's leaders seem to be mostly preoccupied with finding national answers to the global economic crisis. In particular, the leaders of "Old Europe have been reluctant to…