Mubarak tries to defuse anger over remarks on Shiites
CAIRO: President Hosni Mubarak has sought to defuse anger over remarks he made about Shiite Muslims being more loyal to Iran than their own countries, saying he was referring only…
Police continue arrests of Brotherhood members
CAIRO: Police on Sunday detained 100 Muslim Brotherhood activists as part of a crackdown on the Islamist opposition group to undermine its campaign against emergency laws, the group s deputy…
All options still on the table regarding Iran
CAIRO: In a brief visit to Egypt last week, U.S. Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, Robert Joseph further rallied Egypt s support for American efforts to end…
MTC to highlight potential of Egypt's telecom sector at Kuwait in Egypt week
KUWAIT: Under the auspices of Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, the Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) will sponsor the second Kuwait Week in Egypt conference in Cairo from April 17-19. With Kuwait…
Arab film festival in NY is shouting to be heard
NEW YORK: More than 30 movies from the Arab and Muslim world will be playing at a week-long New York film festival, but will anybody be watching? The Alwan Film…
Setting Alexandria ablaze
ALEXANDRIA: Egyptian police fired live ammunition into the air and lobbed tear gas into rioting crowds of Christians and Muslims Sunday in a third day of sectarian violence in Egypt…
Fourth Egyptian woman dies of bird flu
CAIRO: Egypt said on Thursday a fourth woman had died after being infected with the bird flu virus, the state MENA news agency said. The latest victim was an 18-year-old…
Egypt blocks sale of ship by owner of ferry that sank in the Red Sea
CAIRO: State prosecutors on Thursday blocked the sale of a ship by the owner of the shipping line whose ferry sank in the Red Sea two months ago with the…
Rights advocates welcome the release of Islamist prisoners
CAIRO: Rights advocates hailed the release of 950 former militants from the Gamaa Al-Islamiya, a reformed Islamist group that participated in the Islamist insurgency that gripped the country in the…
One killed, five wounded in church stabbings
CAIRO: A mentally ill Egyptian man killed a worshipper and wounded five others on Friday in knife attacks at two Coptic Christian churches in the coastal city of Alexandria, the…