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Articles of the author Hany Salahuldien
Calm on Turkish streets after days of fierce protests
ISTANBUL/ANKARA - Shopkeepers and municipal workers began cleaning the streets of Istanbul and Ankara on Sunday after the fiercest anti-government demonstrations in years. Pockets of die-hard demonstrators lit bonfires and scuffled with police (...)

02 - 06 - 2013
Egypt's ex-VP named ambassador to the Vatican
CAIRO - Egypt's president has appointed his former deputy as the country's ambassador to the Vatican. Mahmoud Mekki's appointment came in a brief statement issued by President Morsi's office. A career judge, Mekki resigned last month shortly before (...)

17 - 01 - 2013
Russia retaliates against US rights legislation
MOSCOW- Russia moved closer on Friday to adopting a law barring entry to Americans who violate human rights, the same day US President Barack Obama signed into law a rights-linked trade bill Moscow finds objectionable. The tit-for-tat response came (...)

15 - 12 - 2012
Egypt Brotherhood leader blasts peace with Israel
CAIRO - The top leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood denounced peace efforts with Israel and urged holy war to liberate Palestinian territories on Thursday ," one day after the country's president, who hails from the movement, mediated a cease-fire (...)

22 - 11 - 2012
Sudan says arrests ex-spy chief after foiled plot
KHARTOUM - Sudan arrested its former spy chief and other senior military and security officers on Thursday after foiling what officials said was a plot to incite chaos and target leaders in this oil-producing African state. Witnesses told Reuters (...)

22 - 11 - 2012
Egypt struggles to buy fuel as credit dries up
LONDON/CAIRO - Egypt is finding it increasingly difficult to import fuel as foreign banks and traders pull the plug on credit and charge high premiums due to concerns over its financial and political stability, trading and banking sources (...)

23 - 08 - 2012
Soaring Spanish unemployment hits record highs
MADRID - Spanish unemployment hit its highest level in the second quarter since the Franco dictatorship ended in the mid-1970s, succumbing to a crisis of confidence among business and consumers that looks likely to escalate as the country's (...)

27 - 07 - 2012
Torch ignites London 2012, cauldron next
LONDON - The Olympic torch relay has completed its 70-day tour, the final leg having been finished by royal barge on London's River Thames in front of tens of thousands of enthusiastic spectators. It finished its 8,000 mile journey at Tower Bridge (...)

27 - 07 - 2012
Onslaught looms as Assad forces pound Aleppo outskirts
AMMAN/BEIRUT - President Bashar al-Assad's artillery pounded rebel-held areas around Aleppo on Friday, preparing the ground for an onslaught on Syria's biggest city where the United States has said it fears a "massacre" may be imminent. Opposition (...)

27 - 07 - 2012
Italian archaeologists close in on real 'Mona Lisa'
FLORENCE - Archaeologists on Tuesday unearthed a skeleton in a rare state of preservation in Florence in a crucial step towards unravelling the mystery of the identity of the woman with the most enigmatic smile in the world. Several bodies have been (...)

24 - 07 - 2012
Indebted Valencia asks Spain gov't for help
MADRID - Spain's heavily indebted eastern region of Valencia said on Friday it would need financial help from Madrid, spooking financial markets and complicating central government efforts to stave off a full-blown sovereign bailout. On a tumultuous (...)

20 - 07 - 2012
Germany confident Egypt will resolve power struggle
CAIRO - German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on Tuesday after talks with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi that he was confident the country would resolve its mounting power struggle. Westerwelle, the first Western minister to visit Cairo (...)

10 - 07 - 2012
British banks are "throttling recovery"
LONDON - Banks are "throttling" the recovery of Britain's economy by failing to lend small firms desperate for loans, Business Secretary Vince Cable said on Sunday. Cable, a long-term critic of Britain's large banks, said the government needed to (...)

08 - 07 - 2012
Iran warns of 'catastrophe' from Syria crisis
AMMAN - An Iranian official has warned of a "catastrophe" in the Middle East if no political solution is found to the 16-month crisis in Syria. Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian also says Syria has a strong army and is able to defend (...)

08 - 07 - 2012
Murray wins opening set of Wimbledon final 6-4
LONDON - Andy Murray, seeking to become the first British man to win the Wimbledon title for 76 years, took the opening set of the final against Roger Federer 6-4 on Sunday. Murray made a fast start and broke the six-times champion's serve in the (...)

08 - 07 - 2012
Sudan protesters teargassed, politician arrested
KHARTOUM - Police in Sudan fired teargas at university student protesters in Khartoum on Sunday after authorities arrested an opposition politician the day before, in the latest crackdown on public dissent against President Omar Hassan (...)

08 - 07 - 2012
Rooted in the land, Egypt's president has huge task
AL-ADWA, Egypt - Water buffalo wander through the dirt roads of Mohamed Mursi's village, less than two hours' drive from the Cairo palace where Egypt's Islamist president-elect has begun work. Yet Mursi, unlike Hosni Mubarak, remains close to his (...)

29 - 06 - 2012
Egypt summons UAE envoy over police chief's tweets
CAIRO - Egypt's Foreign Ministry summoned the ambassador of the United Arab Emirates after comments made by Dubai's chief of police that the ministry described as being against Egypt, state-run media reported. Gulf monarchies such as the UAE have (...)

29 - 06 - 2012
Iran expects to equip Gulf ships with missiles soon
DUBAI - Iran expects to equip its ships in the Strait of Hormuz soon with shorter-range missiles, a Revolutionary Guards commander was quoted as saying, in the latest apparent warning to the West not to attack it over its disputed nuclear (...)

29 - 06 - 2012
Egypt's electoral commission announces Morsy as new president
Cairo - After days of confusion and uncertainty, Farouk Sultan, the head of the Supreme Presidential Election Commission, announced Sunday that Brotherhood's candidate Mohammed Morsi wins the presidential election, an announcement that make a break (...)

24 - 06 - 2012
Islamists hail Morsy's Egypt victory, West cautious
LONDON - Islamists around the world hailed Mohamed Morsy's election as Egypt's first freely chosen president as a victory for their cause on Sunday while the West, Gulf states and Israel reacted with caution, wary of his political agenda. Closely (...)

24 - 06 - 2012
Yemen foils plot to attack foreign embassies
SANAA - Yemen has foiled a plot to attack foreign embassies in the capital Sanaa, a police source said on Tuesday, days after the army drove al Qaeda-linked militants from their strongholds in the south of the country. The source said police in (...)

19 - 06 - 2012
Google launches cultural map of Brazil's Amazon tribe
RIO DE JANEIRO - Google on Saturday unveiled a cultural map of Brazil's Surui indigenous people, a digital tool that will help the Amazonian tribe share their vast knowledge of the forest and fight illegal logging. The map, the result of a five-year (...)

16 - 06 - 2012
Egypt candidate Shafiq says no one above law
CAIRO - Egypt's Ahmed Shafiq, a former military man who will compete with the Muslim Brotherhood in a run-off presidential vote this month, said on Saturday that the jailing of Hosni Mubarak in a trial over protester killings proved no one was above (...)

02 - 06 - 2012
Verdict on Egypt's Mubarak sparks courtroom chaos
CAIRO - A judge handed down life terms to former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and his interior minister for their part in the killings of protesters last year, but Saturday's long-awaited verdict produced some curious reactions. Lawyers on the (...)

02 - 06 - 2012
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