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Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- France Telecom SA’s offer to buy up to 100 percent of the Egyptian Co. for Mobile Services has been approved by Egypt’s financial regulator.
In his ten years as director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas Hoving, who was 78 when he died of cancer on Dec. 10, didn't just transform the Met. He remade the very idea of museums
BONNE TERRE — Recent discussions with residents have some city officials thinking about getting a property tax on the ballot again.
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- DP World Ltd. denied it’s halting a $1.3 billion expansion planned for its port facility in Egypt, Al Bayan reported, citing an unidentified company official.
Israel would face dire consequences if it violated Turkish airspace to spy on Iran, the Turkish prime minister said in an interview with an Egyptian journalist.
Egypt is installing a series of metal sheets about 60 feet deep along its border with the Gaza Strip in an attempt to block tunnels that serve as a key conduit to get weapons into the Palestinian territory, border guards and area residents said Thursday.
A U.N. sanctions committee expressed "grave concern" Thursday about what it called apparent Iranian violations of a U.N. ban on arms exports, triggering a renewed threat by the U.S. and its European allies to press for broader sanctions against Teh ran if it does not mend its ways.
France Telecom has been in an ownership dispute over Egyptian Co. with Orascom Telecom Holding SAE , the largest mobile-phone operator in the Middle East. France Telecom won an arbitration ruling this year requiring Orascom to sell its stake in Mobinil Telecom, a holding company that owns 51 percent of Egyptian Co.
The U.S. is more cautious, with an official saying the five Muslims from suburban Virginia apparently weren't on the verge of violence. They may be handed over to the FBI. A close-knit group of five American Muslims from suburban Virginia had been trying to join a militant group in the Al Qaeda stronghold of northwestern Pakistan when they were arrested this week, Pakistani authorities said ...
Egypt's latest crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's most potent opposition group, in the run-up to 2010 parliamentary elections has raised fears the moderates who have dominated the secretive movement will be eclipsed by its hard-liners.
They're calling it Jingle Bell Raks. And, no, "raks" is not how a 1950s hot-rodder would refer to the front of a filled-out angora sweater. In the Mideast, Egyptian dancing - belly dancing - is called rak sharki.
(ARA) - Sure, round-trip cruising - sailing from Point A to exotic ports of call before returning to your starting point - is great. But for travelers looking for a new experience, repositioning may beat a round trip.
SARGODHA, Pakistan -- Five young Muslim American men arrested here on Wednesday were on their way to the heart of the Taliban sanctuary in Pakistan's tribal areas with the intention of training to fight American troops in Afghanistan, Pakistani police authorities said Thursday.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A member of the mosque attended by the five young American Muslims arrested in Pakistan said Thursday that they had been a constant presence, always in traditional Muslim dress, at the mosque, a modest place of worship just off busy Route 1 in this Washington suburb.
Specialist long-haul tour operator adds South America, the Caribbean and Indian Ocean to its growing portfolio of exotic destinations
CAIRO — Egypt is installing a series of metal sheets some 60 feet deep along its border with Gaza in an attempt to block tunnels that serve as a key conduit to get weapons into the Palestinian territory, border guards and area residents said Thursday.
