Managing Editor
A new position has arisen for an experienced Managing Editor to take charge of the print edition of Daily News Egypt. This is a role of big responsibility and pressure, where she/he will be managing a team of editors and reporters (...)
Strongly believing in the historical value of Daily News Egypt maintained by its staff for the past seven years, Business News for Press, Publishing, and Distribution Co., owner of the daily economic newspaper Alborsa, has decided to invest in (...)
It is with great sadness that we were forced to close the doors of The Daily News Egypt, Cairo's preeminent and only independent English languagenewspaper.
The DNE was conceived seven years ago when a group of Egypt loving business people, (...)
After 13 attempts to blow up pipelines supplying fuel to Israel and to Jordan from Egypt, a worsening security situation in Sinai, Gaza-based political commentator Talal Okal explains that it's become difficult to maintain control over the area. In (...)
CAIRO: Hundreds of workers at several Egyptian companies protested Monday in front of the State Council against an appeal filed by the government contesting a ruling to retrieve these companies to the public sector after years of privatization under (...)
DAMASCUS: International envoy Kofi Annan urged Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad to immediately implement a ceasefire, as fighting raged Friday even after the embattled leader said he had accepted the peace plan.
UN-Arab League peace broker Annan (...)
DAMASCUS: Regime forces on Thursday pressed assaults on rebel zones around Syria, despite a UN Security Council statement urging both sides to implement "fully and immediately" envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan.
The Syrian Observatory for Human (...)
DAMASCUS: The UN Security Council was to weigh a draft statement on Tuesday warning Syria of "further measures" if it fails to cooperate with peace envoy Kofi Annan, as fresh violence struck Damascus.
Russian support for a daily humanitarian (...)
CAIRO: Egypt has raised its budget deficit forecast for this fiscal year by 11.7 percent, the state MENA news agency said on Monday, in a move that may facilitate its efforts to line up an urgently needed international loan.
Cairo is struggling (...)
ISTANBUL: The opposition Syrian National Council called on Monday for an "urgent" foreign military intervention in Syria after reports that 47 women and children were killed in a Homs "massacre."
"We request urgent Arab and international military (...)
CAIRO: An outspoken critic of the ousted regime, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, head of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies in Cairo, draws parallels between Hosni Mubarak's reign and that of the military.
In an interview with Bitterlemons, (...)
As they marked the first anniversary of violations against protesters by the military police late last month, members of the No to Military Trials for Civilians campaign lamented the ongoing trials of civilians in military courts.
The campaign (...)
BAGHDAD: Iraq executed 17 convicted criminals in one day this week, the justice ministry said on Wednesday, bringing to at least 51 the number so far this year.
"The justice ministry carried out (death) sentences against 17 people condemned for (...)
CAIRO: Hundreds of Egyptian protesters demanding an immediate end to military rule clashed on Sunday with rivals in civilian clothes outside central Cairo's state media building, the same place where 27 people were killed in a demonstration in (...)
CAIRO: Very few female candidates ran in the nation's parliamentary elections and even fewer have been elected: 10 took the oath last Monday.
Eight women elected and two appointed women make up less than two percent of the 508 seats in the (...)
DAMASCUS: Syria on Tuesday ruled out any deployment of Arab troops as proposed by Qatar to halt 10 months of deadly unrest, as army defectors urged the UN Security Council to intervene.
"Syria rejects the statements of officials of Qatar on (...)
The Louvre cemented its position as the world's most-visited museum with a record 8.8 million visitors last year to the Paris home of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and other masterpieces.
The Louvre saw a five percent increase in visitors in (...)
KABUL: The Taliban announced on Tuesday that they had come to an "initial agreement" to open their first political overseas office, possibly in Qatar, in the first public gesture towards peace talks with the US.
It is the first time the insurgent (...)
Steven Spielberg hopes he's the typical American when it comes to Tintin: the filmmaker had never heard of the guy, but once he got acquainted, they became friends for life.
Peter Jackson knows he's the typical non-American when it comes to (...)
CAIRO: Each mass Friday protest is like déjà vu.
As thousands spent Friday in Tahrir Square and other public areas throughout Egypt, the feeling that we have made a massive U-turn back towards square one becomes more palpable.
Even though the (...)
Italy's former prime minister and cruise-ship crooner Silvio Berlusconi released an album of love songs on his last day in office on Wednesday.
The self-declared Latin lover, who often boasted that he single-handedly kept large groups entertained (...)
PARIS: World leaders voiced hope Tuesday that the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit after more than five years in Hamas captivity would boost the Middle East peace process and ease regional tensions.
Elation was interspersed with relief in (...)
CAIRO: The two sons of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak held $340 million in now frozen assets in Swiss bank accounts, deputy justice minister Assem Al-Gohari said on Monday.
The lion's share — $300 million — was held by Mubarak's elder (...)
SANAA: Declaring women's rights vital for world peace, the Nobel Committee awarded its annual Peace Prize on Friday to three indomitable campaigners against war and oppression — a Yemeni and two Liberians, including that country's (...)