Egypt
Cinema, Obama chatter at Cairo film festival
Submitted by Marina Dimova on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 04:20.Cairo - The Cairo International Film Festival was as much about politics as it was about cinema, with discussions ranging from celebrity activism to the historic victory of US president-elect Barack
Egypt delays dialogue after Hamas boycotted
Submitted by William Kaelin on Sat, 11/08/2008 - 22:26.Egypt has postponed a planned inter-Palestinian dialogue as several
factions, mainly Hamas, have decided to boycott it, Palestinian sources
said on Saturday.
Egypt to restore three Pharaonic antiquities from Spain
Submitted by William Kaelin on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 20:31.A delegation from Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) will
head to Spain to bring back three items of Pharaonic antiquities, SCA
Secretary-General Zahi Hawas said Thursday.
Egyptian police shoot Sudanese man near border with Israel
Submitted by Marina Dimova on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 13:31.
Egyptian police shot dead a Sudanese man on Monday south of Rafah near the Egyptian-Israeli border, security sources said.
The man, Mohamed Seddik, was trying to enter Israel illegally to seek work, the sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur, dpa.
Many African migrants in Egypt try to seek asylum or work in Israel.
Egyptian natural gas to arrive in Lebanon early next year
Submitted by William Kaelin on Sat, 11/01/2008 - 22:07.Lebanese Energy and Water Minister Alan Tabourian said natural gas shipments to be used for electricity production, will begin to arrive from Egypt to Lebanon at the beginning of 2009, local Lebanese
Egypt's ruling party inaugurates its fifth annual conference
Submitted by Marina Dimova on Sat, 11/01/2008 - 08:40.The ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) begins its fifth annual conference on Saturday morning with a total of 2,700 delegates participating.
A 13-year old girl lives one year without food and water
Submitted by admin on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 14:44.
A 13-year-old girl from the Egyptian province of Sharkiya has not taken any food and liquids since more than a year.
The child feels fine and has not lost weight and leads a normal life.
Palestinian reconciliation dialogue threatened, source says
Submitted by William Kaelin on Wed, 10/29/2008 - 22:07.Talks to reconcile differences between feuding Palestinian factions
could fall apart if Egyptian mediators refuse to consider input from
the factions, a source close to the negotiations said Wednesday.
"Egypt told the Palestinian factions that it would not consider the
comments and amendments made by the factions on the draft submitted by
London - Aero-engine maker Rolls-Royce said Thursday it would cut up to 2,000 jobs worldwide as a result of the current economic "uncertainties."
Washington - Buying a new computer usually involves comparing models. Comparisons are more difficult than they used to be, as the number of choices has grown and manufacturers have started marketing computers with specific uses in mind.
Indian authorities have issued a birth certificate to a Japanese baby born to an Indian surrogate mother, easing the way for her Japanese father to take her home, news reports said Saturday.
