Hundreds of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip have stormed the gate at the Rafah crossing and have clashed heavily with security forces."Palestinian youth on Wednesday threw rocks at Egyptian soldiers, who responded in kind, keeping the crowd at bay with water cannons. ...
Over 120 African migrants are missing after their boat sunk en route to Italy. "A boat carrying 150 African migrants en route to Europe sank off the Libyan coast and the Libyan authorities have recovered one survivor...
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In a bizzare incident in the middle east a marriage between 92 old man and 17 year old egyptian girl have been stopped. "The Egyptian authorities have banned a 92-year-old man from marrying a 17-year-old girl, the Egyptian al-Akhbar newspaper has reported. The ministry of...
"First Defamation Case Against an Egyptian Internet Blogger for Posting Information about Environmental PollutionJune 8, 2008 Cairo, EgyptFirst Defamation Case Against an Egyptian Internet Blogger for Posting Information about Environmental Pollution The Arabic Network for...
"By Emad el-Sayed, May 30, 2008CAIRO: Tragedy has overtaken the family of Ibrahim El-Sayed Mohamed Al-Sadiq who went missing inside Saudi territory a year ago leaving behind a little girl named Shahd who never stopped asking about her father.The details of the tragedy...
"CAIRO: Pope Shenouda III, head of the Coptic Church, called for heavy security presence around the Upper Egyptian Abo Fana monastery during a phone-in on Channel 2’s El Beit Beitak show on Saturday.The Pope also accused the Arab tribes living in the area of stealing LE 1...
This is an important story:"Cairo - Every day at 4 a.m., Hagg Abdel Wahab walks down a narrow path past a simple coffee and tea shop to his bakery. For 40 years, this elderly man has donned a gray gallabeya robe smudged with white flour and baked thousands of...
"Envoys from nearly 100 countries are gathering in Sweden for a UN forum on economic and political reform in Iraq.The UN called the conference outside Stockholm to review a five-year package it brokered last year,...
" The leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has been arrested, according to media reports quoting the country's defence ministry. Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, was detained in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the reports said. There has so far been...
Opposition activists in Egypt are calling for a strike similar to that happened last month and witnessed hundreds of people who organised the general strike largely through the social neworking Facebook, to...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorThe last desperate words Newlywed Jennifer on her Cairo Honeymoon would ever envision to hear from her husband Richard would be "Jump, I promise to catch you", You have to...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorIsrael's rejection of a 6 month truce in the Gaza by Hamas, certainly will not play well in the international stage. Rejection may be seen by Hamas to say to...
When James Karl Buck was arrested in Egypt, his first thought was that he needed to twitter about it. Good thing he did, because his constant Twitter updates via his cell phone are what led to his release from...
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In an unbelievable phenomenon that happened in Luxor, Egypt, and I think will never happen again, A strange Child has been born in a shape like frog. The Egyptian woman gave birth to an incomplete gential child...