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Golden Pyramids Plaza considers IPO

CAIRO: Golden Pyramids Plaza, the company that owns CityStars, is studying an…

Waleed Khalil Rasromani

Banglalink tops 2 million subscribers

DHAKA: Orascom Telecom s Banglalink, the fastest growing mobile phone operator in…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Interbank rate steady at 8.1 percent

CAIRO: The median overnight interbank rate on the pound remained broadly steady…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Gaza businessmen look to Egypt as embargo bites

Reuters GAZA: Businessmen in Gaza, facing steadily worsening economic conditions since Israel…

Daily News Egypt

State witness says Palestinian recruited militants for Sinai attacks, defendant denies

ISMAILIYA: A Palestinian militant recruited Egyptians to carry out the 2004 bombing…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Gap growing in coverage of events between independent and state-owned papers

CAIRO: As opposition and independent newspapers concentrated on Muslim Brotherhood electoral candidates…

Pakinam Amer

Police detain Muslim Brotherhood members in Alexandria

CAIRO: Egyptian police detained approximately 30 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood…

Joseph Mayton

Sinai bombings suspect surrenders

CAIRO: A suspect in the deadly bombings at the Red Sea resort…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Six arrested attempting to cross into Israel from Egypt

Associated PressEL ARISH, Egypt: Egyptian police captured six Sudanese, including a one-year-old…

Ashraf Sweilam

Olmert to meet Mubarak June 4

JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet President Hosni Mubarak on…

Daily Star Egypt Staff