CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Egypt on Sunday appointed Mohammed al-Orabi as the new foreign minister to replace Nabil al-Arabi who will head the Arab League, the official MENA news agency reported.
"Prime Minister Essam Sharaf has tasked Ambassador Mohammed al-Orabi, the deputy foreign minister for economic affairs, to take up the position of minister of foreign affairs," MENA said.
Orabi [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Military prosecutors have summoned a newspaper editor and a journalist over comments in an article on torture attributed to a military official, a military source and the paper's editor said on Saturday.
Journalist Adel Hammuda and editor Rasha Azab from the independent weekly Al-Fagr will appear before the prosecutor on Sunday.
Azab told AFP that the article [...]
MADRID (AFP) - (AFP) - Spanish police said Friday they have frozen more than 30 million euros in bank accounts and properties valued at 10 million after arresting a close associate of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak on fraud charges.
Hussein Salem, detained along with his son and a suspected frontman, was accused of money laundering, fraud, bribery and corruption, police sai [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - The Egyptian justice ministry's fraud unit on Thursday slapped a travel ban on ousted president Hosni Mubarak's two daughters-in-law and their children, a judicial official told AFP.
Assem al-Gohari, who heads the Illicit Gains Authority, ordered the ban on Heidi Rasekh and Khadiga al-Gammal, the wives of Mubarak's sons Alaa and Gamal, said the official, confirming a previ [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - (AFP) - Al-Qaeda on Thursday named Egyptian surgeon Ayman al-Zawahiri to succeed slain leader Osama bin Laden and vowed no let-up in its deadly "jihad" against arch-foes the United States and Israel.
The United States immediately dismissed the appointment saying Zawahiri, the group's long-time number two, lacks the leadership skills and credentials of bin Laden, who was killed by [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - A US-Israeli citizen being held in Egypt on espionage charges is not a spy, Israel's foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman told Israeli military radio on Tuesday.
"I can say categorically that this student, who may have behaved bizarrely and irresponsibly, has no ties with Israeli, American or even lunar intelligence services," Lieberman said.
"This is a mistake or b [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt's state security prosecution on Monday began questioning an Israeli man suspected of spying for the Mossad intelligence agency, state television reported.
Ilan Grapel was detained on Sunday from a Cairo hotel and ordered to be held for 15 days pending investigation.
The US embassy in Cairo confirmed that Grapel is a "US-Israel dual national" and said US consular [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - Egyptian authorities have arrested an alleged Israeli officer working for the Mossad intelligence agency on charges of spying, the official MENA news agency reported on Sunday.
The Supreme State Security prosecutor ordered the man's detention for 15 days pending investigations into alleged "spying on Egypt with the aim of damaging its economic and political interests," [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - The Arab League's outgoing chief and Egyptian presidential candidate Amr Mussa told French television on Thursday that he wants to work for peace between Israel and Palestinians but not at any price.
"Egypt's position will have to get back to a position of influence in the region and to follow the right policy, which is to establish peace, not at any price," he told Fr [...]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - The Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip was reopened on Wednesday, ending a four-day closure amid disagreements between Egyptian and Hamas officials.
In a statement, the Hamas manager of the border crossing, Ayub Abu Shaar, said the terminal was reopened "after an agreement with the Egyptian side that all the parties agre [...]
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