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A top Egyptian official pressed Britain Wednesday to return an ancient stone tablet seen as an icon of his country and denied his countrymen were "pirates of the Caribbean" seeking to steal it back.
A baby and two women have died in Hamas-run Gaza after contracting swine flu, the first deaths from the virus in the densely populated Palestinian territory, officials said on Monday.
The 32-team draw for next year's soccer World Cup in South Africa was held Friday in Cape Town. The U.S. Soccer Team is pleased with the teams it will face in the first round.
Mark Mobius, the veteran emerging-markets investor, sees opportunities in several markets in the Middle East, including Dubai, where he may consider investing if prices decline to “reasonable” levels.
Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Citadel Capital Corp. shares surged to as high as 13.9 Egyptian pounds as the private equity firm with $8.3 billion in investments listed shares in Cairo today.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s envoy to North Korea won’t offer any incentives to entice the regime to return to disarmament talks seven months after the country tested a second nuclear device, a U.S. official said.
Amman - Jordan's cabinet on Tuesday endorsed a deficit budget for fiscal 2010, projecting spending of 5.46 billion Jordanian dinars (7.71 billion dollars), according to an official statement. The budget includes a deficit of 685 million dinars, or 3....
Amman - Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh on Tuesday welcomed as an extremely important attitude the statement by European Union foreign ministers envisioning Jerusalem as the shared capital of both Israel and a Palestinian state. The EU min...
Hamburg - Bayern Munich came from behind to hit four goals and send Juventus crashing out of the Champions League, but Italian rivals AC Milan reached the knockout stage along with Real Madrid on Tuesday. Meanwhile CSKA Moscow joined the qualifiers w...
Doha - The verbal war over Switzerland's ban on building new minarets on mosques escalated Tuesday during a talk show when an Islamic academic condemned a key backer of the Swiss referendum as the new Hitler of Europe. The director of the Institute ...
London - A portrait by Dutch artist Rembrandt (1606-1669) was auctioned for a record 20.2 million pounds (33 million dollars) on Tuesday night, Christie's said. The piece, entitled Portrait of a Man, first went under the hammer in 1930, when it sold ...
More than 1,000 people make commitment to Christ in Alexandra, Egypt (PRWeb Dec 8, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/MichaelAYoussef/egypt/prweb3295514.htm
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than 200 business, government and civil society leaders from more than 16 countries around world meeting here called for urgent efforts to integrate the Arab world into the global economy. "We need a dramatic breakthrough and for the Arab world to step up," Shafik Gabr, Chairman and Managing Director of ARTOC Group for Investment and Development ...
Just because a woman covers up it doesn't mean she can't show off her individual style. That is the belief of a growing number of fashion designers in the Middle East who are cutting conservative clothes with fashionable flair.
JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) - Educator Luther Mercer II has announced he will run for the Democratic nomination to succeed U.S. Rep. John Tanner in Congress.
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