BAGHDAD: Iraq's prime minister rebuked the United Nations for not backing his demand that the ballots from the country's March 7 parliamentary elections be recounted.
The comments are the latest in what has become a campaign by Nouri Al-Maliki to (...)
ALEXANDRIA: Archaeologists on Thursday hoisted a 9-ton temple pylon from the waters of the Mediterranean that was part of the palace complex of the fabled Cleopatra before it became submerged for centuries in the harbor of Alexandria.
The pylon, (...)
SAQQARA: Illuminated only by torches and camera lights, Egyptian laborers used crowbars and picks Wednesday to lift the lid off a 2,600-year-old limestone sarcophagus, exposing - for the first time since it was sealed in antiquity - a perfectly (...)
CAIRO: The start of the holy month of Ramadan next week is causing clock confusion in the Middle East. Egypt and the Palestinians are falling back an hour far earlier than usual, trying to reduce daylight hours for Muslims fasting until sunset in (...)
CAIRO: After dramatic Internet outages that engulfed a large swath of the Middle East and India, a new, more resilient cable is being laid in the Mediterranean Sea between Egypt and France, a spokesman for the cable-owner Flag Telecom company said (...)
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TEL HABUWA, Egypt: Egyptian archaeologists on Monday presented white stones of pumice that they believe a tsunami in ancient times carried 850 km across the Mediterranean to north Sinai.
The pumice was discharged by a volcanic (...)