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Female judges to oversee Shoura elections

CAIRO: Head of Cairo Cassation Court and the Higher Electoral Commission judge…

Heba El-Sherif

55 killed in Darfur border clashes, says tribal chief

KHARTOUM: At least 55 people were killed and 85 wounded in fighting…

AFP
AFP

Emerging markets reshaping economic order, says report

CAIRO: Western businesses, once the unquestioned leaders in global capitalism, are finding…

Christopher Le Coq

Hamas broadcasts cartoon about captured Israeli soldier

GAZA CITY: The armed wing of the Islamist Hamas movement on Sunday…

AFP
AFP

Experts see Polanski extradition in coming months

Roman Polanski's loss of a crucial California court decision sets up his…

Daily News Egypt

Love in a gift bag

The first striking thing about British artist Julie Oxenforth’s video installation at…

Daily News Egypt

Egypt dismisses Israel's Hezbollah Scud warning

BEIRUT: Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit dismissed as "laughable" on Saturday…

AFP
AFP

Divers find rocket debris off Israeli resort

JERUSALEM: Sappers on Saturday recovered debris from a rocket that hit the…

AFP
AFP

Why China is right on the renminbi

BERKELEY: After a period of high tension between the United States and…

Daily News Egypt

Let God give them visas! prays Uganda's passport pastor

KAMPAL: A Ugandan Pentecostal pastor who blesses his congregants' passports to help…

AFP
AFP