Ali Ahmed is struggling with life in Egypt. The Somali refugee was in jail for nine months, has no job and recently got as far as the Sinai Peninsula before turning back to Cairo after plans to cross into Israel fizzled out following a run-in with police.
The number of people displaced by fighting between Pakistani security forces and the Taliban reached two million yesterday as the U.N. warns the conflict is turning into the largest displacement crisis since the Rwandan genocide.
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The countdown for Mubarak’s visit to the White house is in progress. Mubarak will be in Washington and he will meet with the new democratic president. The elected American president will meet with everlasting president of Egypt.
Reporter's Notebook: Mr. Mubarak and Egypt's cloudy future
Egypt is refusing to sign treaties prohibiting biological and chemical weapons, a week after it was reported that weapons-grade uranium was found in Egypt.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have begun deploying mobile launchers for surface-to-air and surface-to-sea missiles in the Strait of Hurmuz and other areas in the Gulf, it has been revealed.
Certain information has to be said without compliments or political correctness. Being that I was born in Egypt it is difficult to speak badly about my native country, especially since I hold a great love and admiration for its history, ancient civilization, and majority of its people.Â
The Library of Congress launches a Coptic music web presentation on their online Performing Arts Encyclopedia in May 2009.
Egyptian leaders ordered the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of pigs today to help protect against swine flu, prompting angry protests from the poor Christian farmers who feed their animals with a country's food scraps. The decision was also criticised as a "real mistake" by a senior UN food expert.