Heavy-freight truck owners continued their strike on Sunday, ushering the episode into its 18th day in seven governorates.
The truckers cited blurry government concessions, concerning the recently-issued requirement to transform all semi-trailers to (...)
Iraqi officials recently lauded Egyptian development in the embattled country while urging more investment.
“Egyptian labor is the best for our urban development,” said Iraqi Transport Minister Amer Abdel Gabbar.
Previously, more three million (...)
Around 250 workers from the Amonsito Company organized a protest yesterday in front of the Supreme Court and filed two reports to the attorney general demanding the enforcement of an agreement they had reached with Minister of Manpower Aisha Abdel (...)
http://www.mi6.co.uk/mi6.php3
My favorite Bond movie is On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). That's the one where James Bond gets married, although his wife gets conveniently killed shortly thereafter. The story is preposterous, but the (...)
http://www.jibjab.com/
Brothers Gregg and Evan Spiridellis founded Jibjab in 1998 and since then have been among the foremost purveyors of web-based satirical animation. They reached the height of their fame in 2004 with an inspired 2-minute (...)
The brainchild of author Robert McCammon, the Horror Writers Association was founded in 1985 and boasts a membership of over 600. Yet it is unable to provide a clear answer to the question: "What is horror fiction? On the face of it, any fiction (...)
http://www.thecwa.co.uk/http://www.mysterywriters.org/http://murderink.com/catalog/
If you're a writer, that is. And if you're a mystery fan, you're glad to pony up the price of the latest thriller, especially if it has won an Edgar or a Gold or (...)
You are being watchedwww.hrw.org
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is younger, smaller and somewhat more militant than Amnesty International. Established in 1978 as Helsinki Watch to monitor the compliance of Soviet bloc countries with the human rights (...)
Give Peace a Chance
http://www.amnesty.org/
British historian Lord Acton observed over a century ago that "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is still true today, especially in the so-called "Third World, (...)
"I like pigs, Winston Churchill is supposed to have said on what must have been a rainy day. "Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Well, I don't know about pigs, but he certainly had cats and dogs figured out. Which (...)
The Other White Househttp://www.whitehouse.org/
This is not the official site of the White House. The tip-off might be the fact that the bird on the seal of the presidency is not an American eagle but rather a vulture. And then there's the (...)
War of wordshttp://www.bushflash.com/
Mohamed Ragheb
This prescient pronouncement by the fourth president of the United States, James Madison (1809-1817) scrolls across the top of the home page: "If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it (...)
http://www.filmsite.org/
This is a site for serious film buffs. It has been praised by the American film industry's publication of reference, Variety, and has been called "a labor of love by critic Roger Ebert. The site's author, Tim Dirks, (...)
The incredibly detailed timeline and graphic photographs of the 9/11 attacks are likely to evoke strong feelings. And perhaps conflicting feelings: Horror at the attacks, but maybe also resentment about the anti-Arab and anti-Islam backlash that (...)