US, European envoys hold key talks on reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace process
President Mubarak meets in Cairo with Palestinian leader Mahmoud AbbasAssociated PressArab leaders and top US, European and U.N. diplomats held key talks Wednesday in an attempt to revive the Arab-Israeli…
UN team due in Central Africa
Visits to Cairo and Khartoum to convince are to convince Sudan to acceptUNITED NATIONS: The United Nations said Tuesday it was sending a team to assess how to protect refugees…
Grasp whatever is left of the scattered hopes for peace
I lay in a hospital bed in Tel Aviv receiving treatment for a blood problem when the news from Beit Hanoun pierced the silence with its images and sounds of…
Now to overhaul all Middle East policy
Change is coming soon to American policy in the Middle East. The neoconservatives in Washington who defined American foreign policies in the past six years were down before the elections…
Europe is involved on Palestine, but so incoherently
Is there a European approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict? At first sight the answer is yes. The European Union Council of Foreign Ministers meets regularly and draws up declarations and…
Plainclothes, uniformed police suppress demonstration downtown
Activists had gathered to call for fight against sexual harassmentActivists from "The Street is Ours , an opposition group, were barred from holding a demonstration protesting alleged incidents of sexual…
Giza garbage protest goes ahead without leader
Activist allegedly detained by authorities in attempt to stop protest marchCAIRO: A group of around 40 people chanting the slogan, No money for trash that is not taken away from…
Government signs two agreements for landmines and Luxor development
UNDP to supervise two long-term projects to develop areas in North Coast and Upper EgyptCAIRO: We won t leave a stone unturned, said Fathy El-Shazly, head of the National Committee…
BG Energy Challenge raises funds and spirits for Upper Egypt
30 teams participated in the 2-day hiking and team-building eventCAIRO: It is not every day that you see professionals scaling untouched desert mountains, or screaming towards a finish line with…
