Lebanese leaders need to shore up their increasingly fragile state
Officials from Riyadh to Khartoum have been working overtime to find a solution to Lebanon s latest political crisis. This week, Speaker Nabih Berri became the most recent leader to…
February, voila Valentine's Day, oh la la
Here comes another February with a new Valentine s Day on the horizon, bringing to the fore fantasies and memories with scented candles and red flowers.When it comes to Valentine…
In Syria, like Egypt, Iraqi refugees fear the future
NEW YORK: More than 5,000 Iraqis, fearful of being deported under Syrian immigration regulations, queued up outside the United Nations refugee agency office in Damascus today to register. We hadn…
What drives a psychiatric patient to commit a brutal murder?
CAIRO: Dreams can be a dangerous thing if, that is, they lead to murder.The December 2006 crime reported in Al Gomhuria daily, where a married man from Giza stabbed his…
Al-Jazeera producer: Alleged abuse documentary to be aired soon
CAIRO: On Jan. 8, Cairo International Airport security prevented Doha-based documentary film producer Howayda Taha from boarding a plane for Qatar and confiscated 50 videotapes in her possession, her laptop…
Iraqi refugees still await UNHCR assistance
CAIRO: Iraqi refugees in Cairo continue to wait outside the United Nations High Commission for Refugees' (UNHCR) office in Mohandiseen to register their refugee status. Among them is Salwan Jumeil…
UN says bird flu can infect cats
UNITED NATIONS: Cats can become infected with the highly lethal H5N1 bird flu virus but there is no scientific evidence at present to suggest that there has been sustained transmission…
Six Egyptians test negative for bird flu
CAIRO: Six Egyptians who were suspected of having the deadly bird flu virus after displaying flu-like symptoms have tested negative for the disease, a World Health Organization official said on…
General Electric wins $120 million bid to supply locomotives to Egyptian railway system
CAIRO: The US-based giant General Electric has won a tender launched by the Egyptian government to supply the General Railways Authority with forty locomotives valued at nearly $120 million. Minister…