An Egyptian woman carries a tray of bread at a public oven in Giza, Egypt, on Sunday, Egypt depends heavily on imported wheat, and the global rise in food prices has led to increase in the price of...

The Middle East iPhone build up continues, with the news that French telecom operator Orange will sell the device in Jordan and Egypt. In a statement released on Friday, Orange announced that it will...

US President George W. Bush arrived in Egypt on Saturday for talks with Palestinian leaders who will be looking for signs they will not be neglected after he lavished praise on Israel during a visit...

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt (AP) - President Bush meets in Egypt Saturday with key allies on Mideast peace negotiations and the fight against al-Qaida. Bush is holding talks with leaders from Egypt,...

Osama bin Laden vowed Friday to fight Israel for the liberation of the Palestinians, saying that is at the heart of al-Qaida’s war with the...

Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt - US President George Bush arrived in Egypt on Saturday and met with Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak on the last leg of a largely ceremonial tour of the Middle East. In his...

+ ] * Leaders begin substantive talks * Chances of success seen 50-50 (Adds talks, details) By Nadim Ladki DOHA, May 17 (Reuters) - Lebanon's rival leaders held tense talks in Qatar on...

Middle East .Egypt was the first Arab nation to make peace with Israel and has long been seen as a key mediator in the Mideast dispute that Bush has said he wants to solve by the time he leaves...

President Bush started a big dust up yesterday by suggesting some Democrats (i.e., Barack Obama) were appeasers with their crazy position that they might actually conduct diplomacy with foreign...

Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt - US President George Bush, on the last leg of a largely ceremonial tour of the Middle East, was due to meet Egyptian leaders Saturday in the Sharm el-Sheikh resort. Bush,...

CAIRO -- An Egyptian man was sentenced to 1,000 years behind bars on Thursday after scamming hundreds of people out of 280 million pounds (around US$52 million), a court official...

The Palestinian Hamas movement will send a delegation to Egypt to discuss a proposed truce with Israel in the Gaza Strip where the Islamists seized power nearly a year ago, a spokesman said on...

+ ] * Leaders to begin substantive talks * Chances of success seen 50-50 By Nadim Ladki DOHA, May 17 (Reuters) - Lebanon's rival leaders hold talks in Qatar on Saturday to try to end a...

President Bush started a big dust up yesterday by suggesting some Democrats (i.e., Barack Obama) were appeasers with their crazy position that they might actually conduct diplomacy with foreign...

(AP Photo/IntelCenter)This frame grab taken from a video message carrying the logo of al-Qaida's production house as-Sahab and provided by IntelCenter, a U.S. government contractor monitoring...

Israel , were in attendance this week as this conservative Muslim sheikdom opened one of the Gulf's first scholarly centers dedicated to interfaith dialogue.The rare meeting of Muslim, Christian and...

Bible Lands Museum , dedicated to the history of civilizations in the Bible. "I believe it's possible. I know it will happen when young people put their minds together."The discussion in the grass...

NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State for Power Jairam Ramesh leaves on Saturday to participate in the annual high-level World Economic Forum on the Middle East to be held at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt on...

Beirut/Doha - Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora will not meet with US President George W Bush in Egypt on Sunday because he will be busy with talks between opposing Lebanese factions in Doha to...

+ ] DOHA, May 16 (Reuters) - Talks aimed at ending Lebanon's protracted political crisis opened in Qatar on Friday. Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani addressed rival Lebanese leaders...

The fur flies An Egyptian woman who filed for divorce after her husband refused to pay for the wedding of her favorite cat in a five-star hotel got her way after all, Egypt media reported this week....

. "Currently, our biggest priority is our merger with Gaz de France. And until we've finalized our merger, we won't focus on big issues such as such a possible acquisition," the spokesman said....

An Egyptian man has been sentenced to 1,000 years in prison for defrauding hundreds of people out of about $52m. Abdullah Kamel Mohammed tricked people into giving him money which he promised to...

The Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group ended on Thursday, May 15, 2008, in Maputo, Mozambique, after two days of exhaustive deliberations and approval of the Group's annual...

The Board of Governors (finance and/or economy ministers) representing 78 member countries of the Bank Group also considered and endorsed ongoing reforms at the institution and the Bank's preliminary...

+ ] AMSTERDAM, May 16 (Reuters) - The list of countries where Apple's <AAPL.O> iPhone will be sold grew further on Friday with Orange announcing a deal for Europe, the Middle East and Africa....

+ ] BEIRUT, May 16 (Reuters) - Syria supports a deal brokered by a Qatari-led Arab delegation that ended fighting in Lebanon and sees a "real opportunity" for the country, Syria's foreign minister...

Cannes Film Festival , the Brazilian director exposes the world's ultimate savages: your friends and neighbors.A terrifying fable about how low people might go to stay alive when a plague of...

Israel has asked Egypt to incorporate a deal to free abducted soldier Gilad Shalit into Hamas truce talks being mediated by Cairo. The cease-fire talks will resume over the weekend, Haaretz has...

+ ] BEIRUT, May 15 (Reuters) - Lebanon's Hezbollah-led opposition ended a civil disobedience campaign against the Beirut government on Thursday, opposition member of parliament Ali Hassan Khalil...

+ ] BEIRUT, May 15 (Reuters) - An Arab League delegation said on Thursday it had concluded a deal with rival Lebanese leaders to end fighting in the country and called on them to attend talks to...

A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of 'B+' (Good) and issuer credit rating of "bbb-" of Jordan's Arab Orient Insurance Company with a stable outlook. "The ratings reflect Arab...

, Egypt is one of the most heavily mined countries in the world after hotspots such as Afghanistan, Angola and Bosnia. The Ministry of Defence estimates that about 700 people have been killed in mine...

+ ] By Will Rasmussen and Cynthia Johnston CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's fixed-line telecom monopoly Telecom Egypt posted its second straight decline in quarterly profit on Thursday, falling short of...

Telecom Egypt saw consolidate net profits slip 4.8% to EGP557 million ($104 million) in the first quarter of 2008, as the operator experiences greater competitive pressure on its voice revenues and...

MILAN, Italy — The wife of an Egyptian cleric taken from a Milan street, allegedly as part of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, wept Wednesday as she described her husband's alleged...

-(Dow Jones)- The European Commission Thursday cleared European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. NV (5730.FR) and French energy giant Suez ( SZE.FR) to buy joint control of French aircraft...

The World Travel Awards is the world wide benchmarking accolade that were established in the year 1993 to acknowledge, reward and celebrate the enormous achievements in all sectors of the global...

+ ] CAIRO (Reuters) - Steeply rising energy prices should soon drive African mobile phone operators to power their base stations with alternative energy sources such as solar or wind, industry...

CNBC, First in Business Worldwide, will host a special televised debate as part of the official agenda at the World Economic Forum on the Middle...

The Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Josette Sheeran, will travel to Egypt on 18-19 May to take part in the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Sharm...

Beirut , a Hezbollah stronghold, but there was no immediate response from the movement's leaders to the government's decision.Clashes between government supporters and opponents broke out last week...

(AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)Israeli firefighters and police examine the damage at the site where a rocket fired by Plaestinian militants from the Gaza Strip landed at a shopping mall in the town of...

+ ] BEIRUT, May 14 (Reuters) - Lebanon's U.S.-backed cabinet on Wednesday cancelled two measures it took against Hezbollah, which triggered the worst internal fighting in the country since the...

CAIRO, May 14 (IPS) - In an effort to offset soaring inflation, President Hosni Mubarak last month announced generous salary increases for all public sector employees. The gesture lost its lustre...

Sci.DevNet Egypt has approved the cultivation and commercialisation of a Bt maize variety, marking the first legal introduction of genetically modified (GM) crops into the...

Middle East . "What happened here is possible everywhere," Bush said, opening a trip divided between ceremonial duties and a new push for Israeli-Palestinian peace.The president, trying to hold...

+ ] (Adds more quotes, details) WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - The United States plans to speed up assistance to Lebanon's army but has no plans as yet to increase current military aid to deal...

-(Dow Jones)- France's Ecology, Energy and Sustainable Development minister Jean-Louis Borloo Wednesday confirmed the government expects the planned merger between utilities Suez (SZEYY)...

MILAN, Italy – The wife of an Egyptian cleric taken from a Milan street, allegedly as part of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, wept Wednesday as she described her husband's alleged...