Egypt on Tuesday banned all poultry imports from France and Germany after the potentially fatal H5N1 strain of bird flu was discovered in birds there.
Hundreds of Palestinians staged an angry protest in southern Gaza on Tuesday demanding the reopening of the strip's border crossing with Egypt where thousands have been stuck for a month.
The Hamas movement has rejected an offer to open the Israeli-controlled Karm Abu Salim crossing between Egypt and Gaza, despite 6,000 Palestinians being stranded on the Egyptian side.
Egypt won't accept new conditions the U.S. House of Representatives has attached to a military aid bill, Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit said.
Dover Petroleum Corp's and Sea Dragon Energy has spudded a fourth well at the East Wadi Araba Concession in Egypt with the driving of surface conductor pipe. The rig, the 1500 hp Shengli-Bohai ZJ-50, is on contract and is now set up and being tested at the site.
Egypt agreed on Monday to offer 80 percent of the country's third largest public sector bank, Banque du Caire, to a strategic investor, a cabinet spokesman told AFP.
Egypt on Tuesday banned all poultry imports from France and Germany after the potentially fatal H5N1 strain of bird flu was discovered in birds there. "The import of birds and poultry of any age from Germany and France is banned from Tuesday," Cairo airport's veterinary authority said in a statement to airlines.
Egypt won't accept new conditions the U.S. House of Representatives has attached to a military aid bill, Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit said. Speaking to reporters in Cairo, Abul-Gheit said U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condole...
Egypt has banned all poultry imports from France and Germany after the potentially fatal H5N1 strain of bird flu was discovered in birds there.
CAIRO, July 10: Egypt won't accept new conditions the U.S. House of Representatives has attached to a military aid bill, Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit said.