In an interview with Al-Ahram Al-Arabi weekly magazine, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades praised Egyptian-Cypriot relations and his deep ties with President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi.
President Anastasiades said that Cyprus will continue its gas (...)
CAIRO: Arab foreign ministers will meet for two days starting on March 10 in Cairo to discuss developments in Syria and prepare for the Arab League summit in Iraq next month, a league source said.
The ministers will discuss Damascus' failure to (...)
CAIRO: Egypt called on Wednesday for change in Syria that met its people's demands, Cairo's strongest language yet on the crisis, though it ruled out supporting outside military intervention.
Egypt has backed Arab League resolutions demanding (...)
CAIRO: After a bruising meeting in a five-star Cairo hotel, Arab foreign ministers led by Gulf states hinted to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad that unless he halts his violent crackdown, some Arab League members might arm his opponents.
The (...)
CAIRO: Arabs will end their observer mission to Syria and will ask the UN Security Council to send an international peacekeeping force to end the bloodshed there, according to a draft resolution obtained by Reuters on Sunday.
Arab ministers met (...)
CAIRO: Arab foreign ministers will discuss a proposal next week to send a joint UN-Arab mission to Syria, a senior Arab League official said on Thursday, after a solely Arab team failed to end President Bashar Al-Assad's crackdown on (...)
CAIRO: An Arab League committee on Syria was set to ask Arab foreign ministers on Sunday to extend a monitoring mission in the country by one month, sources attending the committee meeting said.
Hundreds of Syrians have been killed since the (...)
CAIRO: The Arab League has urged the Syrian government to end its violence against protesters and allow League monitors in the country to work more freely, but stopped short of asking the UN to help.
The arrival last month of the monitors in (...)
CAIRO: Arab states voted on Sunday to impose economic sanctions on Syria immediately, in response to President Bashar Al-Assad's failure to halt a violent crackdown on an eight-month uprising against his rule.
Qatar said that if Arab nations (...)
CAIRO: The Arab League has asked Syrian opposition groups to submit their vision for a transition of power ahead of a bigger conference on Syria's future, a League official and a member of the opposition said on Tuesday.
The League agreed on (...)
CAIRO: The Arab League, stung into action by months of bloodshed in Syria, met opponents of President Bashar Al-Assad on Tuesday, a day after violence in his country claimed 69 more lives.
The League, which has voted to suspend Syria's membership (...)
CAIRO: Arab foreign ministers will review on Wednesday Syria's response to their initiative aimed at ending seven months of violence that has raged during an uprising against President Bashar Al-Assad's rule.
The Arab League has drawn up (...)
CAIRO: BENI SUEF, Egypt: Eleven men were arrested in the upper Egyptian governorate of Beni Suef for storming a preparatory school with the intention of raping students.
The men, who were between 18 and 20 years old, broke into Alia Rushdy School (...)
CAIRO: An Arab parliamentary body called on Tuesday for suspending the membership of Syria and Yemen in the Arab League to put pressure on the two countries to heed popular demands for reforms.
An Arab League foreign ministers meeting in Cairo on (...)
CAIRO: Arab League chief Nabil Al-Araby said on Sunday he may visit Syria this week to voice Arab worries about violence there after Damascus sent troops and tanks to crush street protests against President Bashar Al-Assad's rule
"The Syrian (...)
BENI SUEF, Egypt: Young protestors in Beni Suef painted the Israeli flag on the ground as a protest against a border incident that resulted in the killing of five Egyptian soldiers by the Israeli military.
Those who painted the flag said (...)
CAIRO: The Arab League gave its full backing to Libya's rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people on Thursday and said it was time for Libya to take back its permanent seat on the League's (...)
CAIRO: Arab ministers will hold an urgent meeting on Saturday to discuss the bloodshed in Syria, an Arab League official said, but a delegate to the regional body played down the chances of foreign intervention.
The United Nations says 2,200 (...)
BENI SUEF, Egypt: Bakeries and factories in Beni Suef governorate shut down because of crisis of the shortage of diesel fuel. Clashes broke out among the drivers when they demanded gas station owners for fuel for their cars. Seven injuries were (...)