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The Canadian government said Friday that it has approved a request from Egyptian-backed telecom Globalive Wireless Management Corp. to launch its mobile phone service in Canada.
Egypt is installing a series of metal sheets some 60 feet deep along its border with Gaza in an attempt to block tunnels that serve as a key conduit to get weapons into the Palestinian territory, border guards and area residents said Thursday.
U.S.-allied Arab governments in the Middle East are flouting human rights through violations including torture, extra-judicial killings and repressive laws, an Egyptian human rights group said Tuesday.
The former chief of the U.N.'s nuclear agency critiqued Egypt's lack of democracy after reform-minded Egyptian youths urged him to come home and run for president.
When Egypt's government banned Islamic veils and all-encompassing robes in the dorms of public universities, it cited reports of men wearing the garb to sneak into the women's quarters.
An Egyptian official says it appears nobody drowned after two passenger boats collided on the Nile.
Angry soccer fans rampaged through a posh diplomatic neighborhood in Cairo over the weekend, smashing shop windows and shouting obscenities in a frenzy fed by venomous headlines that portrayed Algerians as barbaric terrorists with a history of violence.
Egypt's president on Sunday criticized Israeli construction in east Jerusalem, telling his Israeli counterpart that settlement activity in the disputed sector of the holy city threatens to anger the entire Muslim world.
A famous Lebanese pop singer, who normally stirs controversy for her seductive dresses and provocative dancing, has now been accused of singing a song with racist lyrics that compares black Egyptians to monkeys.
President Hosni Mubarak entered Egypt's bitter soccer row with Algeria on Saturday, vowing in a televised speech that attacks on Egyptians abroad will not be tolerated.
In a Nov. 15 story about Egypt's plan to apply for the first Internet domain name written in Arabic, The Associated Press incorrectly quoted Yahoo Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang. Yang said new Internet users in emerging markets "will need Web content, and want more content in their native language, and still others won't just be bound by language and barriers, but have other challenges such as reading, literacy." Yang did not use the word "liberty" in the passage.
United Nations officials forced free-speech advocates to take down a poster over its reference to China's Web restrictions at an Internet conference focused on freedom, saying Monday that it violated a ban on posters at events organized by the world body.
Egypt's famous Tomb of Tutankhamun will undergo a five-year project to clean and restore the lavish wall paintings in the underground chambers of the boy king whose golden mask and artifacts have long awed the world.
Egyptian authorities have prevented a leading political dissident from traveling to the U.S., saying Friday that the conditions of his early release from prison do not permit him to travel abroad.
As Egypt gears for pop diva Beyonce Knowles' first performance in North Africa, Islamic conservatives are branding her show an "insolent sex party" that threatens the Muslim nation's "social peace and stability."
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is holding hastily arranged meetings with Egyptian leaders to discuss the stalemate over restarting peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
A sharp deterioration in Egypt's relations with Israel is further complicating Washington's faltering efforts to move the Middle East peace process forward.
Developers unveiled the restoration of a 650-year-old mosque in Cairo's old city, part of an effort to revitalize the impoverished district and boost tourism to the country's treasure trove of Islamic sites.
Canada's telecom regulator said Thursday that startup wireless carrier Globalive does not comply with Canada's ownership standards because it is majority funded and controlled by Orascom, an Egyptian telecom company.
The Middle East's most powerful Islamic political movement is undergoing a leadership struggle as young, more moderate activists try to push the Muslim Brotherhood to soften its fundamentalist ideology and become a more democratic force.
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art will return to Egypt a fragment of an ancient pharoanic shrine it purchased from a collector, Egypt's antiquities department said Monday.
An errant water buffalo caused two Egyptian passenger trains to collide at high speed south of Cairo, killing 18 people and wounding 39, the Health Ministry announced Sunday in a revised toll.
The warren of slum alleys is called the Jews' Quarter, but no Jews live there. The ancient synagogue still stands, but its roof is gone. The government is renovating it, but is doing so at a moment when anti-Israel feeling is running especially high in Egypt.
Security guards thwarted an attempted hijacking Wednesday on an EgyptAir flight from Istanbul to Cairo by overpowering a man who threatened crew members with a knife, a security official for the airline said.
Egypt's laborers and employees are gaining political power"While Western and Egyptian media have been preoccupied in recent years with small demonstrations in downtown Cairo protesting the widely-held belief that President Hosni Mubarak is grooming his son Gamal for the presidency, they have missed the bigger story: a rising labor force …
Israel Sceptical Over Egypt's Plans To Block Tunnels From Gaza | World News | Sky NewsIsraelis have cast doubt on the effectiveness of a mammoth underground wall that is reportedly being built to stop smuggling into Gaza.
Egypt Christian group seeks to change Muslim status"Raafa was raised a Christian but the state says children automatically become Muslim on a father's conversion, a policy that places dozens of people in limbo in a society that does not -- in practice -- recognise conversion away from Islam."
Americans held in Pakistan wanted to join jihad | ReutersThe Americans were in contact with militant groups in Pakistan through the Internet.
BBC News - Egypt starts building steel wall on Gaza Strip borderEgypt has begun constructing a huge metal wall along its border with the Gaza Strip as it attempts to cut smuggling tunnels, the BBC has learned. When it is finished the wall will be 10-11km (6-7 miles) long and will extend 18 metres below the surface.
Egypt men slam giving women right to divorce"A group of Egyptian men have established an organization to fight for men's rights and protect them from the "tyranny" of women as the country's women take advantage of a law allowing them to divorce their husbands with no questions asked. "
Egypt building iron wall on Gaza border to stop tunnel smuggling Egypt has begun the construction of a massive iron wall along its border with the Gaza Strip, in a bid to shut down smuggling tunnels into the territory. The wall will be nine to 10 kilometers long, and will go 20 to 30 meters into the ground, Egyptian sources said.
Egypt to demand the Rosetta Stone from British Museum EGYPT is preparing to make a formal request for the return of the Rosetta Stone, the ancient artefact that helped to unlock the secrets of the pharaohs, from the British Museum.
BBC News - Ex-IAEA head ElBaradei mulls Egypt presidential bidFormer UN nuclear watchdog head Mohamed ElBaradei has said he might run for Egypt's presidency, if the elections are democratic. His comments were met with heavy criticism in the pro-government press, which backs President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's leader for the past 28 years.
Mohamed ElBaradei considers running in Egypt presidential elections - Times OnlineIran's announcement this week that it would set up another ten facilities to enrich uranium came as a final blow to Dr ElBaradei's work to try and reach an agreement between Iran and the West.
The Illegal-Settlements Myth: An analysis from the point of view of history and international lawThe conviction that Jewish settlements in the West Bank are illegal is now so commonly accepted, it hardly seems as though the matter is even open for discussion. But it is.
BBC News - Saddam TV channel drops off air three days after launchA mysterious TV channel dedicated to ex-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has dropped off air three days after its launch on Arab satellite networks. It began broadcasting on the third anniversary, by the Islamic calendar, of the former president's execution.
'Old Europe' Advanced Earlier than other Known CivilizationsBefore the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills people who were ahead of their time in art, technology and long-distance trade. More Articles
Mubarak's Virtual Enemies The fate of Arab bloggers and the fate of the Arab world are one and the same. Empower them and the region will prosper; suppress them and the region will continue to languish.
Egyptian State Security Accused of Cover-up in Muslim Riots"In an effort to cover up the Muslim mob violence against the Copts which broke out last week in the town of Farshoot and neighboring villages (AINA 11-22-2009, 11-23-2009), and in view of the complete news blackout imposed by the Egyptian government, Egyptian State Security has …
The Arabs Have Stopped Applauding ObamaSteeped in an overarching idea of American guilt, Mr. Obama and his lieutenants offered nothing less than a doctrine, and a policy, of American penance. No one told Mr.
Egypt rejects discovery of Persian armyEgypt's chief archeologist Zahi Hawass rejects the discovery of a vanished Persian army in the Egyptian deserts as "unfounded and misleading."
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Egypt stops activity against tunnelsTuesday, Nov. 18, Egypt's special forces and engineering units suddenly shut down operation against the smuggling tunnels to Gaza without warning to Washington or Jerusalem, DEBKAfile's military sources report.
BBC News - Egypt recalls Algerian envoy as football row deepensThe Egyptian government has recalled its ambassador to Algeria following complaints about violence toward football fans, reports say. The move comes hours after Algeria's ambassador in Cairo was summoned to the Egyptian foreign ministry.
Mummy Scans Show Heart Disease Was RampantORLANDO, Florida — The curse of the mummy may truly be fatal.
Egypt: 15 Year Old Egyptian Convert to Christianity Sends Plea to Obama � Dina el-Gowhary :: Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)We are imprisoned in our own home because Muslim clerics called for the murder of my father, and now the Government has set for us a new prison, we are imprisoned in our own country.
17 Things Worth Knowing About Your Cat guniea pigs, squirrels, gorrilas, elephants, lemurs and rabbits also purr.
Living And Dying: Islam, Judaism And Christianity Today, in Tampa, Fla, a Navy reservist tried to murder a Greek Orthodox priest from Crete as a "terrorist." The reservist claimed the non-Arabic speaking Greek had yelled "Allah Akbar." (God is Great) When arrested, Naval Reservist Jason D.
Hezbollah "denies link" to arms ship seized by Israel | Reuters"Hezbollah denies any link to the weapons that the Zionist enemy claims it removed from the vessel Francop," the group said in a statement.
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