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Syria has called for an emergency Arab summit in an apparent effort to prevent being suspended by the Arab League, but the organization said it would meet opposition figures this week who are calling for President Bashar al-Assad's overthrow....
Land-line monopoly Telecom Egypt posted a 21 percent drop in third-quarter net profit on Monday as it continues to suffer the economic fallout of a popular uprising.
The company, which is banking on data services to offset lower fixed-line income,...
DUBAI – Members of a cell arrested before they could carry out attacks on Bahrain's Interior Ministry and the Saudi Arabian embassy had been in contact with Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, Bahrain's state news agency BNA...
Egyptian treasury bill yields jumped by around 40 basis points at an auction on Sunday, in further sign that the government's burgeoning need for finance was straining the liquidity of local banks, bankers said.
Egypt's finance minister said...
Egypt's Ghabbour Auto (GB) on Sunday said its third-quarter net income rose 25 percent year-over-year to LE89 million (US$14.9 million), but said a return to growth may be temporary due to market volatility.
The firm, Egypt's biggest listed...
Syria called Sunday for an emergency summit of Arab League heads of state, in an apparent attempt to thwart its decision to suspend Damascus for violently cracking down on protests.
But a day after the league suspended Syria and said it would impose...
Egyptian police arrested a leading member of an armed Islamist group suspected of involvement in pipeline bombings that have disrupted gas supplies to Israel and Jordan, Egypt's state news agency reported on Sunday.
The pipeline in the desert...
TEHRAN — A massive explosion at a military arms depot near the Iranian capital Tehran on Saturday killed 17 Revolutionary Guards and wounded 15, a spokesman for the elite fighting force told the semi-official Fars news agency.
Officials...
Protesters lay burial shrouds outside the Arab League's headquarters in Cairo on Saturday to symbolize the thousands killed in Syria's uprising and shame Arab governments into action to try to stop the violence.
Syrian President Bashar al-...
Turkish commandos killed a lone hijacker, believed to be a Kurdish militant, in a pre-dawn operation on Saturday to rescue more than 20 passengers and crew held hostage for 12 hours on a high-speed ferry near Istanbul.
The decision was taken at 5:35...
