CAIRO: Wary of the unrest in Tunisia, Arab leaders committed Wednesday to a proposed $2 billion program to boost faltering economies that have propelled crowds into the streets to protest high unemployment, rising prices and rampant (...)
CAIRO: The head of the Arab League called on rich Arab countries to extend a helping hand to their needy brothers as the turmoil in Tunisia cast a shadow over the Arab economic summit due to open in Egypt later this week.
The summit was meant to (...)
CAIRO: Egypt s state news agency reported Tuesday that 10 African nations have failed to conclude a long delayed new agreement for sharing water from the Nile and will call for closer cooperation instead.
The Nile basin nations have failed for (...)
CAIRO: The United States test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads during a joint military exercise Wednesday with Saudi Arabia, a Western military official said.
The Trident missile launch was carried (...)
CAIRO: The Arab League chief wants the 22-nation bloc to engage Iran directly over concerns about its growing influence and its nuclear activities, in a step that could undermine US and Israeli efforts to isolate the country, diplomats said (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's government is seeking to severely restrict the work of non-governmental organizations, including preventing them from monitoring elections, three dozen NGOs said Monday.
Draft legislation to curtail local NGOs will be brought (...)
CAIRO: Hundreds of Israelis came to Egypt on Sunday for an annual pilgrimage to the tomb of a 19th-century Jewish holy man in Egypt s Nile Delta, airport officials said.
Last year, Egypt denied the pilgrims entry because the anniversary fell (...)
CAIRO: Iran made a new offer for resolving tensions with Arab nations, an Egyptian official said Monday, and Egypt s president flew to the Persian Gulf in an unexpected visit to discuss the proposal with his allies.
US-allied Arab nations, which (...)
CAIRO: The Arab League s head on Monday urged the Palestinian president to reconsider stepping down from his position.
Amr Moussa's request comes as Arab foreign ministers are meeting this week to review their commitment to a 2002 peace (...)
SANAA: Saudi Arabia has launched a large military incursion across the border into northern Yemen, using fighter jets and artillery bombardments to try to end a Shia rebellion inside its troubled southern neighbor, Arab diplomats and the rebels said (...)
CAIRO: Defense lawyers for a trial in Egypt of two dozen people charged with spying for Lebanon's Hezbollah quit Wednesday after claiming the court was not impartial, judicial officials and the lawyers said.
The 26 suspects, including Egyptians, (...)
JERUSALEM: Israel and Iran took part in an international conference on nuclear disarmament last month in Egypt - a gathering that is now prompting media reports the two foes held direct discussions that included an awkward exchange on whether the (...)
CAIRO: The head of the Arab League indicated in an interview published Tuesday that he may consider running for Egypt's presidency in elections scheduled for 2011.
Amr Moussa's remarks come amid a heated debate in Egypt about who would replace (...)
CAIRO: Legal experts and human rights activists are criticizing Egypt for an abrupt spike in death sentences in recent months, accusing the country s courts of trying to use capital punishment to stem a soaring crime rate.
In June, 75 Egyptians (...)
CAIRO: An Israeli envoy on Tuesday concluded his first round of talks with top Egyptian intelligence officers in efforts to free an Israeli soldier held by Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip, officials said.
Egypt has been mediating attempts (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian and Iranian foreign ministers have met three times this week, signaling a thaw in the tense relations between the two Muslim nations, Egyptian and Iranian diplomats said Tuesday.
Formal diplomatic ties were severed in 1979 (...)