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Inflation stable for June but may increase in July

  CAIRO: Egypt’s annual headline inflation reached 10.2 percent in June led…

Amr Ramadan

Transportation ministry to issue new smart cards for metro passengers

CAIRO: In an effort to improve the underground metro ticketing system, the…

Daily News Egypt

Uncertainty over destination of Libyan ship carrying Gaza aid

ATHENS/JERUSALEM: Israel on Sunday vowed to prevent a Libyan aid ship from…

Agencies

Website says Gibson rant audio not the last word

  The two-minute clip of Mel Gibson using a racial slur and…

Daily News Egypt

Nolan, DiCaprio play mind games with ‘Inception’

It's no rarity for blockbuster Hollywood directors to dream big. Dreaming big…

AP
AP

If you think the burqa is degrading, banning it is not the solution

Pierre Bayle, a 17th-century philosopher and theologian, wrote one of the first…

Daily News Egypt

Open air terrace

The Ramses Hilton hotel celebrated the beginning of the summer season with…

DNE
DNE

Witness intimidation continues in Khaled Saeid death case, say lawyers

By Ingy Hassieb and Sarah Carr CAIRO: El Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation…

DNE
DNE

Gharbeya lawyers may hold strike after Judges’ Club ‘threat’, says lawyer

CAIRO: Lawyers in Gharbeya governorate may hold an open strike if the…

Marwa Al-A’sar

Peace demands courage

WASHINGTON DC: Too often Israeli-Palestinian relations are seen as a zero-sum conflict…

Daily News Egypt