Mixed reactions in Europe over proposed constitutional amendments
CAIRO: President Hosni Mubarak s proposed constitutional amendments have stirred mixed reactions from European Officials.The amendments, which will ban the formation of religious parties, reduce the role of the judiciary…
Greenpeace urges Mideast to shun nuclear power
ALEXANDRIA: Greenpeace s Rainbow Warrior has dropped anchor in Egypt s Mediterranean port of Alexandria to deliver an unequivocal message against nuclear programmes - civilian and military - to a…
Amendments facilitate Gamal succession, says one expert
CAIRO: Critics of the proposed constitutional amendments argue that they will rubber stamp the succession of Gamal Mubarak as ruler of the country after his father, current President Hosni Mubarak.Although…
Constitutional amendments to spark worldwide protests on referendum day
CAIRO: As the People's Assembly approved a long list of controversial amendments to the constitution last Monday, activists around the world have been busy organizing protests.Protestors, including an anti-Mubarak group…
Alcatel-Lucent continues work on East African submarine cable project
Project to connect eight countries from Sudan to South AfircaCAIRO: Alcatel-Lucent signed this month to begin construction of the second phase of a 10,000 km submarine cable system to connect…
Globalisation, or is it globalization?
Buenos Aires, Argentina, was my first tango with globalisation, when I met a German who had shipped a camper van to South America and we drove together through Uruguay and…
Humans leave precious little for other forms of life
As a species, human beings have a major self-control problem. We humans are now so aggressively fishing, hunting, logging, and growing crops in all parts of the world that we…
The bear is back: Russia's return to the Middle East
The recent visit to Moscow of Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal came shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin's trip to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan. There he aligned Russia with the…
Cut Hamas some slack, to contain Al-Qaeda
Last week I spoke to a group of former militants in the Khan Younes refugee camp in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Many assured me that it was…
WHO TB Strategy out of reach for many endemic countries
A much larger TB drug resistance problem exists than researchers previously thought. New global data on TB, published this week by the World Health Organization (WHO), highlight serious weaknesses in…