Al-Jazeera denies targeting Tunisia
DOHA: Arab news channel Al-Jazeera denied Thursday that it was pursuing a political agenda against Tunisia, after Tunis closed its embassy in Doha to protest an alleged hostile campaign by…
Egypt urges continued UN-Sudan cooperation
CAIRO: Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit said Friday the United Nations and Sudan must continue to cooperate even if it means sending a new envoy to Khartoum to replace the one…
Pope makes new call for religious dialogue
VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI made a new call for religious dialogue Thursday to paper over the cracks following remarks last month that angered Muslims, a Vatican statement said. Speaking…
Café businesses suffer major financial losses
Resident complaints about violations end in crackdownCAIRO: An intensified crackdown on coffee shops during the Ramadan and Eid Al-Fitr period has left shop owners with major financial losses and the…
50 years on, French Suez vets still fight for recognition
Agence France-PressePARIS: On the 50th anniversary of the Franco-British airborne invasion of Egypt that is known as the Suez crisis, French veterans of the campaign are still pushing for official…
Word on the Street: What's your problem?
Everybody's got a grievanceCAIRO: This week, I took on a bolder assignment - to discover what problems are plaguing people's minds.Like the Arabic proverb, "Everyone sings for his lover, the…
Making up for lost time
Painter Nabila Andrawis puts the pro in prolificCAIRO: Nabila Andrawis was making a comfortable living as an English teacher and translator when she made a rash decision.She quit her job,…
Egypt will make an eternal impression in Yahoo's digital time capsule
SAN FRANCISCO: A handprint in the sand in Egypt, a sonogram of a Portuguese couple's first son, a man praying at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem are among the videos…
Thieves first to discover dentists' tombs at Saqqara pyramids
SAQQARA: The arrest of tomb robbers led archaeologists to the graves of three royal dentists, protected by a curse and hidden in the desert sands for thousands of years in…
