BBC News | aid convoy stranded on Gaza border BBC News, UK A convoy bringing medical aid to Gaza is stranded at the border with Egypt, after most of the activists and volunteers with it were denied entry. Only 16 of the group of 130 Europeans were permitted to enter, leaving trucks laden with wheelchairs, ... Video: Gazans find ways around Israeli blockade - 25 May 09 Egypt Prevents Hope Convoy European Activists from Entering Gaza ... Egypt and Hamas: No one to talk to on Shalit |
Egypt: Exiled dissident's jail sentence overturned eTaiwan News, Taiwan AP An Egyptian judge has overturned the conviction and two year prison sentence of an exiled Egyptian-American dissident accused of damaging Egypt's reputation. Judge Ashraf Sheta upheld an appeal by sociologist Saad Eddin Ibrahim's lawyers on Monday ... |
GulfNews | DIARY - Egypt/Sudan - May 25 Reuters All events/times provisional and in GMT (local time is GMT +3 for Egypt and Sudan). CAIRO - Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit and intelligence chief Omar Suleiman to head to Washington for talks. CAIRO - African ministers of finance, planning and ... Five US Presidencies is Too Long for Mubarak: Al Araby, Egypt Egypt dissident says he was burned in attack Egypt?s leader appears after grandson's death, meets with ministers |
BBC News | Egypt quashes Saad Eddin Ibrahim jail term BBC News, UK A court in Egypt has overturned a two-year jail sentence imposed on Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a prominent critic of President Hosni Mubarak's government. Mr Ibrahim, an Egyptian-American academic living in exile in the US, was convicted last August of ... |
CTV.ca | Egypt arrests Qaeda cell over deadly Cairo bombing AFP CAIRO (AFP) — Egypt said on Saturday that police have arrested seven members of an alleged Al-Qaeda-affiliated cell over a Cairo bazaar bombing three months ago that killed a teenaged French tourist. The interior ministry said those arrested over the ... Egyptians in Israel battle for rights Cairo market bombers arrested 7 arrested in connection with deadly Cairo blast |
Egypt index up in low volumes Reuters CAIRO, May 25 (Reuters) - Egypt's main stock index .EGX30 edged higher on Monday in very low volume trade as trading suspensions and holidays kept foreign investors away and locals eyed building firms, traders said. "There is not much international ... Egypt regulator delays ruling on Mobinil offer France Telecom and Orascom at loggerheads over Egyptian operator |
New York Times | Cleaning Cairo, but Taking a Livelihood New York Times, United States Egypt decided to kill all its pigs, about 300000, although there have been no cases of swine flu in Egypt. International agencies quickly criticized the authorities, saying that pigs were not spreading the illness. But Egypt did not stop the huge pig ... |
Egypt's OCI says best bidder in wastewater project Reuters The project was tendered by Egypt's Ministry of Housing as a public-private partnership, and the treatement plant would have a daily capacity of 250000 cubic metres. OCI said it expected an official announcement soon. Aqualia is the water division of ... Egypt's OCI says best bidder in wastewater project |
MIDDLE EAST: Swine flu cases appear in Egypt, Kuwait, UAE IRINnews.org, NY The authorities in Egypt's Red Sea Governorate have hospitalised a German tourist who had arrived at Hurghada airport in the area with swine flu-like symptoms, according to a local newspaper. The man said he had visited a pig farm 10 days earlier in ... |
Sudan: 119 Died in Airstrike, State Says New York Times, United States Defense Minister Abdel Rahim Muhammad Hussein said in a report to Parliament that the convoy that was made up of 1000 civilians involved in “a smuggling process at the border with Egypt,” the state Suna news agency said. Air raid by foreign fighters in Sudan killed 119: report |