Mubarak: No conditions on Palestinian unity government
ReutersCAIRO: Egypt rejected on Sunday imposing any conditions on the new Palestinian unity government and said it was up to the Palestinians to convince key international mediators to end the…
Government lashes out at critics of blogger jailing
CAIRO: Egypt on Friday lashed out at critics of the four-year jail sentence it handed a blogger Abdel Kareem Soliman Amer for insulting Islam and defaming President Hosni Mubarak. No…
Pakistan pushing for Muslim solutions to regional problems, advises negotiation with Iran
CAIRO: A meeting of seven ministers from Muslim countries took place in Pakistan to discuss solutions for the conflicts marring the Middle East.The foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia,…
Nabih Berri speaks on democracy, war, peace, and skiing
BEIRUT: Nabih Berri is the speaker of the Lebanese parliament and a member of the Shia Amal party. Due to the complicated religious quota system within Lebanese democracy, he is…
Egypt hosts Jordanian King in bid for Israeli-Palestinian peace
CAIRO: Jordan s King Abdullah II arrived in Cairo Sunday on a tour aimed at relaunching the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.The monarch, who began his tour in Egypt before heading to…
Petition launched to protect Al-Aqsa Mosque
CAIRO: Muslim clerics have initiated a campaign to collect one million signatures on a petition to be sent to United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon demanding the protection of…
Conscript who refused to guard Israeli embassy receives six-month prison sentence
Associated PressCAIRO: A court has sentenced a policeman to six months in prison after convicting him of insubordination for refusing to guard the Israeli embassy, a court official said Sunday.Mohammed…
A new age of satellite broadcasting dawns on the Middle East
DUBAI: The ongoing development of satellite broadcasting for the Arab world - demonstrated by the increasing number of channels and the rise to global prominence of brands like Al Jazeera…
Imagine Cairo with no car fumes?
Egypt begins to manufacture ceramic filters clean up car emission, says expertCAIRO: The success of experts to locally manufacture ceramic filters that are fixed to vehicles' exhaust-pipes is likely to…
Stella Di Mare is a red carpet paradise
AIN SOUKHNA: Between the Oscars and the Six Nations Rugby it truly was super Saturday over the weekend, and what better place to get the red carpet treatment than at…