Concerns over the looming expiration of the Emergency Law
CAIRO: Egypt's opposition groups are responding skeptically to an announcement made by Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif this week that the government will lift the 25-year-old Emergency Law. Highly condemned for…
Islamist leader barred from entering Egypt
CAIRO: Egyptian immigration officials prevented the leader of the Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and four others from entering the country on Thursday, conference organizers said. The five were…
Egypt to publish report on Sharm El-Sheikh air crash
CAIRO: Egypt will publish Saturday its final report into the January 2004 crash of a Flash Airline flight near the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh that left 148 people…
Bird flu, talks regarding corruption take the lead
CAIRO: With bird flu making continuous headlines due to the four cases detected in humans, one being fatal, talks concerned with "government-protected corruption and Prince Charles' visit to the country…
Muslim scholars gather to defend Prophet after cartoon row
MANAMA: Some 300 Muslim religious figures opened a two-day conference in Bahrain Wednesday in support of the Prophet Mohammed following the row over his depiction in cartoons in European papers.…
Breathing space
CAIRO: With freedom of speech more an idea floated around rather than a reality in Egypt, with journalists sentenced to prison and fined for writing, some of Egypt's journalists have…
President in bid to ease Syrian-Lebanese tensions
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt: President Hosni Mubarak held talks with leaders from Syria and Lebanon on Thursday in what a presidential source said was an effort to repair strained relations between…
Muslim Brotherhood urges Arab leaders to pledge financial support for Hamas
CAIRO: Arab leaders meeting in Sudan next week should commit to giving Hamas financial support, the head of Egypt s largest Islamic group, the MuslimBrotherhood, said in a statement Thursday.Brotherhood…
Egypt to lift 25-year-old emergency laws
CAIRO: Egypt plans to lift 25-year-old emergency laws granting security forces sweeping powers of arrest and detention that critics have long claimed are used against opponents of the government. Prime…
Xceed receives call center performance certification
CAIRO: Xceed, a call center owned by Telecom Egypt, celebrated the achievement of a performance certification from the leading authority on call center operations this week, while a company official…
