CAIRO: Mohamed Gabr tosses a few tomatoes into a rubber basket, then some zucchini. He huffs when the seller tells him the price, attempting to bargain. “Sorry, that is the price,” he is told, handing over a few pounds and walking slowly out of the shop in the Sayeda Zeinab market in central Cairo. “It’s [...]
NEW YORK: The United Nations relief chief on Friday urged Syrian authorities to allow unrestricted access to humanitarian organizations to deliver aid to people affected by the ongoing violence, saying she was “horrified” by the destruction she had seen in some of the areas she visited during her two-day visit to the country. Valerie Amos, [...]
CAIRO: Aiming to empower the disadvantaged and marginalized communities in Egypt through the support of product development, Fair Trade Egypt is a unique company. Through technical assistance and business training, the company hopes to achieve a sustainable source of income for artisans through the trade of handicrafts within Egypt and abroad. Since its foundation, Fair [...]
CAIRO: Reporters Without Borders objects to the decision to bring two journalists and two activist bloggers before military courts to face charges of harming the army’s image and seeking to overthrow the state. “The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has demonstrated once again its willingness to muzzle media workers, who are the repeated victims [...]
CAIRO: Saturday in Egypt marked the official beginning of the presidential campaign, arguably the first in the country’s history to replace ousted President Hosni Mubarak this May. The registration process will run through April 8 and is likely to see at least one dozen individuals, including two women, enter the fray for Egypt’s top job. [...]
LAGOS: A Nigerian spokesman for the Islamist militant group Boko Haram has told Bikyamasr.com that the group was “not involved” in the kidnapping of two foreign citizens in the country, but added that they “believe foreigners have no place in Nigeria.” The spokesman said that “we as an organization did not become involved in the [...]
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia condemned Russian statements accusing the ultra-conservative Gulf kingdom of supporting terrorism in Syria. “Such irresponsible statements are mistaking the reality of the kingdom’s keenness to deal with the Syrian crisis according to the rules of international legitimacy, and through the (UN) Security Council which is concerned with preserving the international peace and [...]
DUBAI: Sweden’s role in assisting Saudi Arabia to construct an advanced arms factory able to produce anti-tank missiles has left many frustrated over the Scandinavian country’s role in the ultra-conservative Gulf Kingdom. According to reports in Riyadh, the country and Sweden have been working together with the Swedish Defense Research Agency (FOI) for a number [...]
SANA’A: US drones raided several hideouts of the Yemen-based Al-Qaeda wing in the southeast restive province of Al-Baydha on Friday night. At least 25 AQAP militants were killed, including senior figures, with several other militants being wounded in an air strike conducted by the United States forces according to local website news. Sources told Bikyamasr.com [...]
SANA’A, March 9, 2012- At least seven people were killed on Wednesday, amongst whom a high-ranking military commander of Yemen’s northern province of Amran in an exchange of gunfire with al-Houthi rebel group. Sources said that the armed confrontation took place in the Harf Safyan district, of the Amran province, north of Sana’a, when the [...]
SANA’A: Al-Qaeda, a terror group which seeks to establish the return of the Islamic Caliphate over the Muslim world, is believed to have grown way beyond “containment security parameters”, posing a very real threat to Yemen’s national hegemony within in its own territories. As Yemenis rose against President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the wake of [...]
Sheikh Feierstein (@SheikhFeierstei) is enchanting hundreds of internet savvy Yemeni on twitter, opening a window onto Yemen which very few have ever had the opportunity to look through. He is a Yemeni satirist icon of a comedian specialized in the old Yemeni folk tradition of political-analytical humor mixed with sentiments emanating from the Arab street. [...]
The US-Yemen relationship has become a hot topic recently, especially after former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the man whom the US relied on and strongly supported in its fight against “al-Qaeda” recently stepped down. According to Ibrahim Sharqieh, a conflict resolution expert at the Brookings Doha Center who wrote extensively about the conflict in Yemen, [...]
CAIRO: Mohamed Gabr tosses a few tomatoes into a rubber basket, then some zucchini. He huffs when the seller tells him the price, attempting to bargain. “Sorry, that is the price,” he is told, handing over a few pounds and walking slowly out of the shop in the Sayeda Zeinab market in central Cairo. “It’s [...]
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates and China announced they would jointly hold a business summit on May 3 during the Annual Investment Meeting (AIM). The aim of the summit is to look at boosting trade between the two countries, the China-Arab Exchange Association (CAEA) said on Saturday. “Under the framework of the AIM, the summit [...]
DUBAI: Qatar’s telecom giant Qtel announced the launch of a new cloud services to focus on the needs of industry in the Gulf region. The new cloud services will be rolled out on a pay-as-you-go basis through the virtual computing platform, the company said in a press release. “Qtel Cloud transforms the way organizations function [...]
CAIRO: Nearly one-year on since Samira Ibrahim was subjected to a “virginity test” by Egypt’s military junta, she returns to court on Sunday morning, hoping it will finally bring closure to over one year of fighting for her and other women’s rights in Egypt. The case, to be back in court on Sunday, it was [...]
SANA’A, March 08 (Saba)- On 08 March the world celebrates International Women’s Day – a day dedicated to stress the continued need to work towards strengthening gender equality. A continued need, as women worldwide still do not enjoy equal rights as compared to men, but in many countries it holds true that women do not [...]
MUMBAI: With celebrations of International Women’s Day on Thursday, the plight of women was back in headlines in India, as many women’s groups demonstrated for a greater role in politics in the country. Data on governments was released with the Women’s Day celebrations globally, and India did not fare well in the latest rankings, lagging [...]
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s contemporary art scene is to get a monumental boost later this month when a volume on the subject is to be published. The independent art initiative Edge of Arabia announced this week that they are publishing a book on contemporary Saudi art at Art Dubai on March 22. “Edge of Arabia: Contemporary [...]
CAIRO: Aiming to empower the disadvantaged and marginalized communities in Egypt through the support of product development, Fair Trade Egypt is a unique company. Through technical assistance and business training, the company hopes to achieve a sustainable source of income for artisans through the trade of handicrafts within Egypt and abroad. Since its foundation, Fair [...]
NEW DELHI (dpa) – A teenager died and 235 people, mostly children, were hospitalized in Mumbai with an allergic reaction to colored powder during a Hindu festival, news reports said Friday. The victims, mostly children from the town’s slums, complained of breathlessness, vomiting and rashes after throwing the colored powders at each other during the [...]
LAGOS: A Nigerian spokesman for the Islamist militant group Boko Haram has told Bikyamasr.com that the group was “not involved” in the kidnapping of two foreign citizens in the country, but added that they “believe foreigners have no place in Nigeria.” The spokesman said that “we as an organization did not become involved in the [...]
Amman (dpa)- Islamists demonstrated in Amman on Friday, urging the government to cut diplomatic ties with Damascus and throw their support behind Syrian revolutionaries. In a rally organized by the Muslim Brotherhood – the largest political force in Jordan – some 2,000 activists denounced Jordan’s “weak” position towards Syria. “We need a clear and strong [...]
CAIRO: Mohamed Mokhtar al-Mahdy, general director of the community of the Quran and Sunnah workers, said during a speech that social networking websites Twitter and Facebook were started by “seculars and liberals” to be an outlet for their “deviant thoughts”. The 73 year-old Islamic scholar was speaking to students at al-Azhar university in Cairo, in [...]
BANGKOK: Thailand has reportedly seized more than 200 live animals, including lions and tigers as well as other exotic rare species during a raid on an illegal wildlife supplier in the country, police reported. “The owner cannot provide legal documents for the five tigers, so he was charged with violating the Wild Animal Preservation and [...]
LONDON: An Italian oil tanker has ran aground near Syracuse, in southern Sicily, media reports said Saturday. The Gelso M hit rocks near Santa Panagia amid bad weather conditions, the ANSA news agency reported. Italian coastguard patrol boats and helicopters have been dispatched to the area of the accident. No sources could confirm to Bikyamasr.com [...]
CAIRO: The UAE will take part in the 6th World Water Forum to held in Marseille, France from March 12 to 17. Undersecretary of the Ministry of Environment and Water Dr Maryam Al Sanasi will head the UAE’s official delegation to the event, which is expected to attract over 25,000 delegates from around the globe. [...]
Nairobi (dpa) – At least three people died and 40 were injured in a grenade attack at a busy bus station in Nairobi, the Kenyan Red Cross said Saturday. Police were quick to point the finger at Somalia’s Islamist insurgent group al-Shabab, which has been blamed for previous grenade blasts in Kenya. The Red Cross [...]
CAIRO: United Nations and Arab League special envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, expressed “grave concern at the situation in Syria” Saturday, and urged President Bashar Al-Assad to take concrete steps to end the current crisis, a UN statement issued in Damascus said. “Annan put several proposals on the table regarding stopping the violence and the [...]
MUMBAI: Four Polish nationals who stole a stuffed rhinoceros head from an Austrian bar in an effort to cut off the horn have been arrested. The Poles reportedly did not realize during the theft that the head was actually a fake, with the head made from plastic and the horn from wood. Ironically, local Austrian [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Football Association (FA) announced on Saturday that it was canceling the remainder of the premier league season as a result of the violence clashes following a February 1 football match in Port Said. The incident, the FA said, has left the country on edge and they did not see it prudent to continue [...]
DUBAI: After two days of clashes in Bahrain and at least one reported death by security forces’ hands, the government maintains that there is a Western bias towards the Kingdom when reporting events on the ground. The king’s advisor for diplomatic affairs and Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies Chairman Mohamed Abdul Ghaffar [...]
Kabul (dpa) – Five senior Taliban leaders currently incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay prison have agreed to be transferred to the Gulf state of Qatar if the US releases them, an Afghan official said Saturday. Such a move could be important if the Taliban members can – as some speculate – play a pivotal role in [...]
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