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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.
Envy is surely one of the most insidious of human emotions. It is a self-destructive emotion, because it often leads a person to act against his own best interests, as he attempts to redress the situation that caused him so much envy.
France will hand back to Egypt five stolen relics on Monday when President Hosni Mubarak visits Paris, ending a row over the wall fragments sold to the Louvre.
A Philadelphia tourism official says that 2010 is going to be a year to remember for Philadelphia and its visitors.
Once a central player in Dubai's ambitions to be a major world city, its international film festival kicked off this week with the shadow of the emirate's debt troubles hanging over it.
This year's Nobel Peace Prize delivered a challenge that must be particularly familiar and vexing to our loquacious president: to not just give a good speech, but to produce results.
BONNE TERRE — Recent discussions with residents have some city officials thinking about getting a property tax on the ballot again.
Investigators in Pakistan say five American men in custody have told investigators they came to Pakistan to take part in "jihad."
Egypt has been digging trenches and installing metal sheets underground along its border with Gaza in an apparent attempt to curb smuggling into the Palestinian territory through tunnels, Gaza border guards and area residents said Thursday.
Egypt said on Thursday that it will not abolish the death penalty because it is a deterrent, even though human rights groups say that fair trials are not guaranteed.
Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki on Thursday rejected holding Middle East peace talks in Moscow in the absence of preliminary negotiations with Israel.
Officials Tell CBS that FBI has Met 5 Men from D.C. Area with Possible Links to Pakistani Militants
Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani called Wednesday for the linking of gas prices with those of oil at the opening of a forum bringing together top gas exporting countries.
Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) 9th ministerial meeting opened Wednesday morning in Doha, Qatar. Stabilizing natural gas prices in 2010 and appointment of the forum's Secretary General are the key discussions of the meeting.
The Obama Nobel Peace Prize is seen as inappropriate by many Arabs, who are angry about the surge of US troops into Afghanistan and a stagnant Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. trade deficit was less than economists expected in October, dropping although it was predicted to rise, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Thursday.
