Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, 69, was hanged in the first hours of the Muslim Al-Adha feast at 6:05 am local time Saturday.
His death sentence was handed down by a tribunal formed under occupation. Both Amnesty and Human Rights Watch (HRW) (...)
Defendants facing a military court on charges of forming a terrorist organisation say they are victims of the fallout of 11 September
In the first military trial in nearly two years, 94 defendants were charged on Sunday with forming an underground (...)
The message behind Hizbullah's attack against Israeli forces in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms might have come at the wrong time, reports Zeina Abu Rizk from Beirut
Defying an international public opinion hostile to any sort of military (...)
Minister of Higher Education Mufid Shehab talks to Al-Ahram Weekly about making the most of a flawed system
When it comes to the inherent flaws in Egypt's system of placing students in universities throughout the country, Minister of Higher (...)
The Euro-Egyptian partnership is just around the corner, or else on the shelf. Al-Ahram Weekly investigates
Whether Egypt will decide to sign its partnership agreement with the European Union (EU) in a few days time, as had been expected, remains an (...)
Israel escalated its attacks on Palestinians, entering Khan Younis camp in Gaza and leaving a trail of death and destruction
In its first foray into Palestinian-controlled territory Israeli tanks and bulldozers rumbled into the Khan Younis Refugee (...)
IN A SURPRISE ruling the special Scottish court set up in The Netherlands to try two Libyans suspected of bombing a Pan Am airliner 12 years ago over Lockerbie, Scotland, found one of the defendants guilty and ordered the acquittal of the (...)
Open letter to Prime Minister Atef Ebeid
Your Excellency,
You are certainly aware that the Serageddin villa in Garden City is up for sale. The palace is a work in art in and of itself, and features fixtures and fittings of great beauty and value, (...)
To Egypt's relief, security and intelligence officials from Syria and Turkey met this week to discuss the dispute between the two countries that has threatened a military conflict in the region. For the time being, although the drums of war have not (...)
LIBYA is seeking an agreement with Britain and the United States on "modalities and arrangements" before the appearance of two suspects in the 1988 Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie before a Scottish court in the Netherlands. But the US administration (...)
ISRAELI opposition deputies scoffed at a request submitted to parliament on Tuesday to add $1.4 million to the $1.8 million already budgeted for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's travels abroad, already exhausted after six months.
Avraham Shochat, (...)
ISRAELI opposition deputies scoffed at a request submitted to parliament on Tuesday to add $1.4 million to the $1.8 million already budgeted for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's travels abroad, already exhausted after six months.
Avraham Shochat, (...)
ISRAELI opposition deputies scoffed at a request submitted to parliament on Tuesday to add $1.4 million to the $1.8 million already budgeted for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's travels abroad, already exhausted after six months.
Avraham Shochat, (...)
ISRAELI opposition deputies scoffed at a request submitted to parliament on Tuesday to add $1.4 million to the $1.8 million already budgeted for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's travels abroad, already exhausted after six months.
Avraham Shochat, (...)