Washington: Ayman al-Zawahiri, the new head of terror outfit al-Qaeda remains at large in Pakistan's tribal area, a top US counter-terrorism official has said as Washington vowed to hunt him down. Labelling the Egyptian cleric as now the number one target of the US, John Brennan, the US Deputy National Security Advisor told CNN: "We believe he (Zawahiri) is in that region of the world, as well as other al-Qaeda...
01:26 PM, Apr 30, 2012
New Delhi: Call it bizarre but soon the Islamist-dominated Parliament of Egypt would pass a law which allows husbands to have sex with their dead wives for "upto six hours". The controversial new law is part of a raft of measures being introduced by the Egyptian Parliament, Daily Mail reported on Thursday. It will also see the minimum age of marriage lowered to 14 and the ridding of women's rights...
06:59 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Cairo: Thousands of protesters have gathered in Cairo's downtown Tahrir Square, demanding that Egypt's ruling military council hand over power to civilians. Rival political parties of Islamists and liberal youth groups joined ranks despite months of bitter disputes and accusations. Protesters chanted, "down with military rule." Islamists captured nearly 70 per cent of parliament seats in last year's elections. They have stayed away from most street protests, hoping for accommodation...
05:56 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Cairo: An Egyptian court has ordered the government to ban pornographic Internet websites in order to protect society and its values. The decision and a similar initiative in parliament has fed into fears by liberal and secular Egyptians that their country is moving down the path to fundamentalist Islam, following a sweeping victory by Islamists in parliamentary elections. The ruling Wednesday came from a lower court and can be appealed....
01:29 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: The day Arab countries welcome spring is also celebrated as Mother's Day in western Asia and Egypt. To commemorate the Arab Mother's Day, Google has put up a Mother's Day doodle on its home pages in Arab countries including Egypt, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Libya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The doodle that Google has posted for the Arab Mother's Day on March 21 is...
09:23 AM, Mar 21, 2012
Cairo: Christians gathered on Sunday to pay final respects to Pope Shenouda III, who sought to soothe sectarian tension in his four decades atop Egypt's Orthodox Church but saw increasing flareups in the majority Muslim nation in the last months of his life. Friction has worsened since President Hosni Mubarak, who suppressed Islamists, was ousted last year. Since then Shenouda, who died on Saturday aged 88, often called for harmony...
04:14 PM, Mar 18, 2012
Cairo: Facing long jail terms, ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's close aides are offering their ill-gotten assets in exchange to be set free. Ex-Housing Minister Ahmed al-Maghrabi and Egyptian tycoon Ahmed Ezz, who is also a prominent member of the former ruling party, have offered their assets, believed to be running into millions of dollars to stay out of jail, the 'Egypt Independent' reported. Ezz has been sentenced to ten...
04:08 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Moscow: A kite surfing champion from Poland became stranded for 40 hours on the Red Sea and fought off an attack by sharks with a knife. Janek Lisewski, 42, attempted to kite surf a 200 km distance between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He was on his two thirds of the trip, when the wind went dead and the deflated kite plunged into the sea. He waited for about two hours...
12:32 PM, Mar 10, 2012
Cairo: Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak has told the court trying him for complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising that he is saddened by what he calls the "baseless" claims against him. Mubarak's remarks were made in a memo submitted to the court yesterday, and published in the Tahrir newspaper on Thursday. Lawyers confirmed that Mubarak had presented a letter to the court, but did not...
03:14 AM, Feb 24, 2012
Cairo: The fate of Egypt's former strongman Hosni Mubarak will be decided on June 2, with the Egyptian court conducting his trial setting the final date for verdict after the ousted president turned down a last chance to speak in its final session on Wednesday. The prosecution has called for death penalty for Mubarak, who was Egypt's most powerful man for over 30 years until a mass revolution overturned his...
05:07 AM, Feb 23, 2012
Cairo: The fate of Egypt's former strongman Hosni Mubarak will be decided on June 2, with the Egyptian court conducting his trial setting the final date for verdict after the ousted president turned down a last chance to speak in its final session on Wednesday. The prosecution has called for death penalty for Mubarak, who was Egypt's most powerful man for over 30 years until a mass revolution overturned his...
12:12 AM, Feb 23, 2012
Aden: Yemen sealed President Ali Abdullah Saleh's exit from power on Tuesday by electing his deputy to shepherd the country away from the brink of civil war. Vice President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, the sole, consensus candidate, billed the vote as a way to move on after months of protests against Saleh's 33-year rule, but the president's sons and nephews still command key army units and security agencies. "Elections are the...
04:54 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Cairo: Egypt refused to back down on Wednesday in a dispute with the US over Cairo's crackdown on nonprofit groups despite Washington's threats to cut aid, while the military deployed troops to the nation's streets after a surge in violence and protests against its rule. Egypt's official MENA news agency said the army was deploying more troops to reinforce the police, restore security and state "prestige." The move comes in...
01:19 AM, Feb 09, 2012
Ireland, The United States has said it was "deeply concerned" at the news that dozens of activists including 19 Americans could go on trial in Egypt over the alleged illegal funding of aid groups. "We have seen media reports that judicial officials in Egypt intend to forward a number of cases involving US-funded NGOs to the Cairo criminal court," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said. "We are deeply concerned by...
11:50 AM, Feb 06, 2012
Cairo: Egyptian officials say Hosni Mubarak will shortly be moved to a prison hospital as soon as the facility is upgraded to house the 83-year-old former president. The officials said on Sunday the hospital in Tora prison in Cairo will be upgraded in 'record time', but that there is no set date for the move. Since his arrest last April, Mubarak has been held in custody first at a hospital...
09:49 PM, Feb 05, 2012
In January 2011 we saw images of hope and the rise of people power in Egypt's Tahrir Square. The crowds pushed President Mubarak out then, but a year later the protestors are still there. Has the promise of the Arab Spring faded? ...
10:30 PM, Feb 04, 2012
There seems to be no end in sight to tensions in Egypt with the protesters now demanding an end to the country's military rule. ...
08:46 AM, Feb 04, 2012
Cairo: Protesters filled the streets and clashed for a second day on Friday with police who fired tear gas and birdshot in Cairo, as a deadly soccer riot focused rising public anger over lawlessness and collapsing security a year after Egypt's uprising. Six people have been killed and more than 1,500 injured in the latest bloodshed that followed a violent melee and stampede after a soccer game Wednesday in the...
08:25 AM, Feb 04, 2012
Cairo: FIFA has requested a full report from Egyptian authorities into the violence at a soccer match in Port Said that left 74 people dead, world soccer's governing body said on Thursday. At least 1,000 people were injured in the violence on Wednesday when fans invaded the pitch after local team al-Masry beat Cairo-based Al Ahli, the most successful club in Africa. Most of the deaths were among people trampled...
04:35 PM, Feb 03, 2012
Cairo: Three Egypt internationals and Al-Ahly players have retired from all football after witnessing the deadly clashes between fans at their league game against Al-Masry on Wednesday. Mohamed Aboutrika and Mohamed Barakat, who both have at least 70 caps for Egypt, told Al-Ahly TV that they would quit immediately after the mass violence that left at least 74 people dead at a stadium in the Mediterranean city of Port Said....
01:47 PM, Feb 03, 2012
