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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Arab Herald.com http://www.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/10/id/d7006824400aaac1/ en-us Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:57:39 -0500 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:57:39 -0500 30 CAIRO, March 10 (Reuters) - Arab League chief Amr Moussa said on Wednesday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had told him he would not enter indirect talks with Israel, only days after the P... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/33003762/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:26:07 -0500 Reuters http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/33003762/ CAIRO, March 10 (Reuters) - Arab League chief Amr Moussa said on Wednesday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told him he would not enter indirect talks with Israel. http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/33003763/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:26:06 -0500 Reuters http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/33003763/ Washington - The White House on Wednesday offered its deepest condolences following the death of Sunni Islam's top cleric - who last year hosted President Barack Obama's landmark speech to the Muslim ... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/33003401/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:22:55 -0500 IOL http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/33003401/ The Ethiopian Supreme Court has ruled against four independent media houses, forcing them to pay record high fines that were originally rendered void under a 2007 pardon. Several can be forced to clos... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/33003764/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:58:31 -0500 afrol News http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/33003764/ Excerpts: Egypt to restore synagogues.Israel/Arab neighbors joint nuclear plant.Dubai financial problems continue.Turkey offers Israel/Syria mediation March 10, 2010 +++EGYPT DAILY NEWS: 10 Mar.'10... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/33002656/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:53:43 -0500 IMRA http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/33002656/ A 3,000-year-old wooden sarcophagus, seized in Miami, was returned to Egypt in a ceremony at the National Geographic Society after a two-year international investigation. http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32999867/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:07:50 -0500 NPR http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32999867/ CAIRO, Egypt — Egypt's top cleric, Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, a controversial figure throughout the Islamic world, died of a heart attack Wednesday while on a visit to Saudi Arabia. He wa... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/33000125/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:07:32 -0500 Yahoo! News http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/33000125/ A 3,000-year-old wooden sarcophagus, seized in Miami, was returned to Egypt in a ceremony at the National Geographic Society after a two-year international investigation. http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32996487/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:31:31 -0500 NPR http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32996487/ CAIRO -- Egypt's top cleric, Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, a controversial figure throughout the Islamic world, died of a heart attack Wednesday while on a visit to Saudi Arabia. He was 81.Tantawi wa... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32995923/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:28:43 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32995923/ Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak speaks during a news conference after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (not pictured) at the Chancellery in Berlin March 4, 2010. http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32996814/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:07:04 -0500 Canada.com http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32996814/ Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak speaks during a news conference after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (not pictured) at the Chancellery in Berlin March 4, 2010. http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32996816/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:06:02 -0500 Vancouver Sun http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32996816/ Abu Dhabi: Etisalat's investment in Egypt proves low-income countries will not be "left behind" in the digital revolution, etisalat Chairman Mohammad Omran said yesterday. Since an etisalat... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32996476/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:02:57 -0500 Gulf News http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32996476/ Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak speaks during a news conference after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (not pictured) at the Chancellery in Berlin March 4, 2010. http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32996815/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:52:11 -0500 Canada.com http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32996815/ Scientists are examining how to increase guinea pig production to boost food security in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where inhabitants keep the rodents as "micro-livestock". The resear... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32996818/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:29:54 -0500 afrol News http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32996818/ As peace has returned to Burundi, it becomes clear that more mines than previously expected had been deployed during the civil war. Only recently, "an extremely dangerous" anti-personnel mine was disc... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32996817/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:29:52 -0500 afrol News http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32996817/ DUBAI: Egyptian religious leader Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the head of al Azhar, has died on a visit to Saudi Arabia, Al Jazeera television reported on Wednesday, quoting its correspondent. Al-Azh... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32992924/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:51:14 -0500 Times of Oman http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32992924/ Quote ) aims to diversify into logistics to tap demand in a relatively virgin market as it shifts away from its main technology businesses, the firm's chairman said. http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32993339/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:07:00 -0500 Reuters http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32993339/ A new report documents the "systematic use" of torture and other human rights violations in Egypt's counter-terrorism efforts. Those suspected of terrorism, which has a wide definition, can expect tor... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32993341/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:40:21 -0500 afrol News http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32993341/ At the African agriculture summit in Abuja, the proposal of creating a common Africa market of strategic food and agricultural commodities achieved much attention. A scheme that could boost African ag... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32993340/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:40:20 -0500 afrol News http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32993340/ CAIRO, March 10 (Reuters) - Egypt's Meditrade is looking to buy at least 30,000 tonnes of edible oil for arrival in the second half of April or first half of May, a trader said on Wednesday. http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32989852/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:15:51 -0500 Reuters http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32989852/ RABAT, March 10 (Reuters) - The crisis in relations between Libya and its Western partners is an expression of Muammar Gaddafi's inner circle: a family he protects fiercely but which is torn betwee... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32989853/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:15:50 -0500 Reuters http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32989853/ CAIRO, March 10 (Reuters) - Egypt's president, who had gallbladder surgery in Germany last week, left the intensive care unit on Wednesday and moved to a regular room, the official Middle East News... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32989854/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:15:49 -0500 Reuters http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32989854/ Longtime Palo Alto resident Omer Salem had a terrible surprise last December when he bought a local newspaper in his native Egypt and found himself proclaimed a spy on the cover.Salem, 50, said he had... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32989494/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:12:24 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32989494/ Currently, there is little indication of this rally in the virtual world transferring to the real world. Not under this constitution. Therefore, lobbying for constitutional change seems like the right... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32989851/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:03:21 -0500 World Press Review http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32989851/ South African President Jacob Zuma today finally provided a list of his financial interests to parliament after the opposition increased its pressure on the ANC leadership. http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32989856/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:50:50 -0500 afrol News http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32989856/ SPONSOR WIRE Although modest in terms of investment, the resumption of poultry and piggery farms in the former N'Sele Presidential Agro-industrial Domain (DAIPN) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32989848/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:44:39 -0500 All Africa http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32989848/ Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, grand sheik of Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's pre-eminent theological institute waves at the Azhar headquarters in Cairo, Egypt (file) http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32986300/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:18:27 -0500 VOA http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32986300/ Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, grand sheik of Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's pre-eminent theological institute waves at the Azhar headquarters in Cairo, Egypt (file) http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32986707/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:17:04 -0500 VOA http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32986707/ "It's been an honor, privilege and pleasure for me to work for an organization whose mandate is so important and to have been able to pursue my life's passion," Scott said as she reflected on her time... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32986705/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:01:19 -0500 All Africa http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32986705/ Cairo/Riyadh - Sheikh Mohamed Sayyed Tantawi, Grand Sheikh of Cairo's al-Azhar and one of the leading authorities of Sunni Islam, died Wednesday in Saudi Arabia aged 81, the Egyptian embassy in Riyadh... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32983479/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:02:15 -0500 Earth Times http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32983479/ ) will pay a higher-than-expected dividend for the second half of 2009 and said it was still set on buying the internet unit of one of its main shareholders. Mobinil, Egypt's biggest mobile telecom o... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32983904/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:53:52 -0500 Arab Finance http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32983904/ Egyptian Electrical Cables-(ELEC) reported its financial results posting a net profit of L.E 60,142,695 for the period from 01/01/2009 till 31/12/2009, compared to a net profit of L.E 40,259,185 in th... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32983905/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:53:45 -0500 Arab Finance http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32983905/ ) sent a release to EGX declaring cash dividends of $ 0.70 per share payable on 28/03/2010. Shareholders of record on 23/03/2010 are entitled to cash dividends distribution. http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32983906/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:53:42 -0500 Arab Finance http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32983906/ ) and kept target price at L.E40.00. The brokerage noted that, the upside of Iraq, for instance, which is a significant upside to the valuation is yet to be included in numbers and said GB Auto shoul... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32983907/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:53:39 -0500 Arab Finance http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32983907/ Innovation is a key agenda item for Intel in Egypt this year. Following the launch of Intel Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Egypt with the Ministry of Education and the Arab Science and Technol... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32983903/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:19:09 -0500 Al Bawaba http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32983903/ Top Egyptian cleric Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, whose moderate views angered conservative Muslims, died of a heart attack Wednesday during a visit to Saudi Arabia, the state-owned news agency report... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32981027/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:28:17 -0500 Haaretz http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32981027/ Samsung Digital Imaging Company Inc., a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, announced the addition of two new models to its WB-series of high zoom, point-and-shoot digit... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32981029/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:19:02 -0500 AME Info http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32981029/ ), the leading mobile operator in Egypt by subscribers, is still trying to buy LINKdotNET and has set itself a target to complete the deal within 30 days, its chairman said on Wednesday. "We have set... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32981026/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:15:17 -0500 Arab Finance http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32981026/ The number of mobile phone subscriptions in Egypt rose to 55.848 million in January from 55.352 million in December, a government website said on Tuesday. Some 496,000 subscribers were added in Janua... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32981031/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:15:16 -0500 Arab Finance http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32981031/ (MENAFN) A report issued by Egypt's statistics agency CAPMAS showed that the country's urban annual consumer price inflation slid to 12.8 percent in the year to February, down from 13.6 percent in Jan... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32978604/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:58:10 -0500 MENAFN http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32978604/ ) approved in its OGM to pay a dividend of L.E 7.5 per share for the second half of 2009, it said on Wednesday. This brings the total dividend for the whole of 2009 to L.E 9.5 as the company distribu... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32978596/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:42:38 -0500 Arab Finance http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32978596/ Steel consumption in Egypt leapt 40 percent last year to 9.15 million tonnes, driven by a national housing construction drive and state spending on steel-intensive infrastructure. A lot of the demand... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32978597/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:42:35 -0500 Arab Finance http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32978597/ Samsung Digital Imaging Company Inc., a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, announced the addition of two new models to its WB-series of high zoom, point-and-shoot digit... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32978594/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:11:31 -0500 Al Bawaba http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32978594/ (MENAFN) A statement released by Egypt's Torah Cement said that the company posted a 23 percent rise in 2009 net profit to $62 million, compared with The firm made a net profit of $50.3 million in 200... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32976333/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:27:04 -0500 MENAFN http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32976333/ ) announced that it will split company’s stock nominal value to LE 10 instead of LE 100 with keeping issued capital at LE 60 million, distributed over 6 million shares, instead of 600,000 shares at ... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32976328/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:11:41 -0500 Arab Finance http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32976328/ ) stated that his company increased its sales value to L.E 108 million from L.E 83 during first half of fiscal year 2009/10, representing 30.1 increase against the same period a year earlier. “Cons... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32976329/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:11:38 -0500 Arab Finance http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32976329/ Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif inaugurated a number of service and development projects during his field tour in Minya governorate. The Prime Minister inspected Minya hospital for psychiatry medicine tha... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32976332/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:11:37 -0500 Arab Finance http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32976332/ The US is one of Egypt’s important investment partners, given its varied business attractions and advanced technology, the Egyptian Investment Minister Mahmoud Mohieldin said at a meeting with membe... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32973914/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:40:57 -0500 Arab Finance http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32973914/ Egypt aims to set up four nuclear plants by 2025, with the first to start operating in 2019, its Electricity Minister Hassan Younes was quoted as saying by the state news agency on Tuesday. Ministry ... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32973915/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:40:54 -0500 Arab Finance http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32973915/ The Egyptian government's New Urban Communities Authority will begin selling bonds worth 5 billion Egyptian pounds ($912 million) next week, Reuters cited Finance Ministry official yesterday. The off... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32973916/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:40:51 -0500 Arab Finance http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32973916/ "(Ban) reiterates that settlements are illegal under international law," he said. "Furthermore, he underscores that settlement activity is contrary to Israel's obligations under the Roadmap (peace ... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32971268/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:07:51 -0500 Reuters http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32971268/ /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EGYPTAIR and leasing company GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) took delivery Monday of the first Boeing (NYSE: BA) 777-300ER (Extended Range) commercial jetliner to join E... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32968595/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:25:19 -0500 Earth Times http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32968595/ Islamic Hamas movement on Tuesday denied reports that Egypt would send a delegation to the Gaza Strip to look into prospects of signing a national Palestinian reconciliation deal."These reports a... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32968871/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:01:23 -0500 People's Daily http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32968871/