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OT says MTN offered $7.8 bln for Algeria unit, eyes Syria

BEIRUT: South Africa's MTN has offered to pay $7.8 billion for Orascom…

Reuters

A stone's throw from the Nile, Egypt's taps are running dry

KIRDASA: Six months into her pregnancy, Tahani Rabia continues to ignore doctor's…

AFP
AFP

Sri Lanka's False Dawn

NEW YORK: As the Sri Lankan government celebrates the first anniversary of…

Daily News Egypt

Reflections on Jerusalem Day in an impoverished, extremist, and divided city

JERUSALEM: Jerusalem Day (Yom Yerushalayim) over the years has become a bizarre…

Daily News Egypt

Thai Lessons for China

BEIJING: Whatever the effects of political turmoil in Thailand, they are not…

Daily News Egypt

Our Post-Modern Crisis

BERLIN: On the weekend of May 7-9, the European Union gazed into…

Joschka Fischer

Effective resistance to illegal occupation

The Palestinian campaign to boycott settlement products is enjoying exceptionally high levels…

Daily News Egypt

Court suspends order banning police officers on campuses

CAIRO: The Cairo Court for Urgent Cases suspended an administrative court order…

Heba El-Sherif

Pirates hijack cargo ship with 24 crew off Somalia, says EU

BRUSSELS: Pirates armed with rocket-propelled grenades on Wednesday hijacked a Panama-flagged cargo…

AFP
AFP

Israel begins release of flotilla activists who give disturbing account of raid

CAIRO: The majority activists on the aid flotilla that was attacked by…

Abdel-Rahman Hussein