Egypt detains two in bomb attack investigations
CAIRO: Egyptian police have detained two men they said drove people suspected of involvement in bomb attacks in the resort of Dahab and north Sinai, the state MENA news agency…
Emergency law fails to quell terror, say activists
CAIRO: Activists say that a triple bomb attack in the Red Sea resort town of Dahab on Monday is proof that a long-standing emergency law is ineffective in combating terror.…
UCLA Egyptologists launching online encyclopedia
WASHINGTON: Frustrated with the poor quality of many Web sites dealing with ancient Egypt, a professor at the University of California has decided to create a massive online encyclopedia devoted…
Qatari woman imprisoned by family for marrying Egyptian
DOHA: Inside a luxurious compound, a Qatari woman has been made a prisoner in her bedroom and sometimes starved and beaten for shaming her family by fleeing Doha in 2002…
Word on the Street
CAIRO: On Monday, Egypt and the entire region were rocked by the triple bombings that struck Dahab in the Sinai and claimed the lives of 24 people, while injuring dozens…
Police use force to disperse protestors in Egypt
CAIRO: Police attacked demonstrators Thursday rallying in support of two pro-reform judges who had been hauled before a disciplinary board for accusing the judiciary of helping fix elections. The hearing,…
Calls to prayer to be synchronized in Cairo
CAIRO: The government has agreed to buy 4,000 wireless receivers for a project to synchronize the call to prayer from all state-run mosques in the Cairo area, the state news…
Press round-up
CAIRO: While newspapers were preoccupied with the judges sit-in and the repercussions of last week s brief sectarian strife in Alexandria, the Sinai bombings exploded onto the scene. This dominaed…
Egypt needs bird flu awareness says WHO
CAIRO: Egypt needs to raise public awareness of how to avoid bird flu, which the government says has killed one person and infected four others this month, a World Health…
Egypt blames same Bedouin group for all Sinai attacks
CAIRO: Egypt blamed suicide attacks in the Sinai Peninsula this week on local Bedouins linked to an Islamic radical group also responsible for other bloody bombings in Red Sea resorts…
