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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 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:42:00 -0500 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:42:00 -0500 30 Cairo, Feb 8 (DPA) The deputy head of Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch accused Egypt and Saudi Arabia of helping 'crusaders' wage a war against the Arabian peninsula, in an audiotape posted on Islamist websites Monday. http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/598993/cs/1/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:50:05 -0500 IANS http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/598993/cs/1/ Cairo, Feb 8 (DPA) Police detained senior leaders of Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood, the country's largest opposition group, in a series of pre-dawn raids Monday, the group and police said. http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/598867/cs/1/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:30:02 -0500 IANS http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/598867/cs/1/ bans Palestinian cartographer from travel abroad Tuesday, February 09, 2010 OCCUPIED-AL-QUDS/CAIRO: Israeli security forces on Monday raided a Palestinian refugee camp in annexed east al-Quds, arr... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32071208/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:00:47 -0500 The News http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32071208/ (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)FILE - in this Saturday, Jan.16, 2010 file photo Essam el-Erian, Egyptian Muslim brotherhood top figure, gestures during a conference at the brother hood headquarter in Cairo... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32071598/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:43:57 -0500 Examiner http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32071598/ CAIRO (AFP) - The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Filippo Grandi, on Monday urged Egypt and the Arab League to press Israel to allow reconstruction equipment into the blockaded Gaza St... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32071210/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:16:52 -0500 The Nation http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32071210/ Sofapaka somewhat surprisingly beat Mathare United and Tusker FC to the Kenyan Premier League title last year, following a number of impressive performances at the end of the season. http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32068643/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:41:54 -0500 Daily Nation http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32068643/ On Monday morning, Egyptian security forces pounced on the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in a nationwide sweep, arresting 14 people including the movement’s No. 2, Mahmoud Ezzat, and Essam el-Er... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32068321/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:38:35 -0500 Jerusalem Post http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32068321/ MOSCOW, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal on Monday accused the United States of undermining Palestinian unity efforts and said he saw no chance for peace in the Middle East under Israe... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32068644/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:12:31 -0500 Reuters http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32068644/ Egypt should stop shooting migrants who pose no threat and deporting others to possible torture...Israel should not be forcibly returning people to Egypt, where they are detained arbitrarily and even ... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32068317/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:40:20 -0500 Human Rights Watch http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32068317/ The Egyptian authorities failed to honor their diplomatic promises and their own human rights obligations under international law. The Swedish government never should have returned Agiza to a country ... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32068318/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:40:18 -0500 Human Rights Watch http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32068318/ These two groups have been spotlighting important human rights issues for years. By refusing to give them legal status, the government has confirmed that the new NGO law is intended to stifle civil so... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32068319/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:40:17 -0500 Human Rights Watch http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32068319/ report by Human Rights Watch and the EIPR publicized this problem and documented the Interior Ministry's policy of refusing mandatory identification documents to Baha'i Egyptians as well as to citi... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32068320/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:40:10 -0500 Human Rights Watch http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32068320/ MANSOURA, Egypt, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Around 80 people protested outside a Mansoura hospital on Monday after the authorities released the body of an army deserter, whose family say he was tortured to ... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32065510/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:11:38 -0500 Reuters http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32065510/ CAIRO, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Egyptian investment bank HC Securities and Investment, which has 5 billion Egyptian pounds ($911 million) under management, received permission on Monday to open an office ... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32065511/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:11:37 -0500 Reuters http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32065511/ RAMALLAH, West Bank, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The West Bank-based Palestinian government on Monday called local elections for July in a move the Hamas Islamist group said was illegitimate. http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32065512/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:11:36 -0500 Reuters http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32065512/ Two police officers and a civilian were expected to appear in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on Monday for allegedly killing an Egyptian hawker at the Bruma flea market, police said. "They wil... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32062206/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:21:17 -0500 General Sources http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32062206/ Two police officers and a civilian were expected to appear in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on Monday for allegedly killing an Egyptian hawker at the Bruma flea market, police said. "They wil... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32062205/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:21:13 -0500 General Sources http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32062205/ national newspaper titles the (daily) Independent and the Independent on Sunday. Sources close to the deal said Lebedev, the owner of the London Evening Standard, was trying to persuade the Sawiris fa... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32062207/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:21:10 -0500 General Sources http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32062207/ The new Egypt Power Report forecasts that the country will account for 10.01% of Middle East/Africa (MEA) regional power generation by 2013, with a modest theoretical generation surplus.The MEA power ... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32062211/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:21:06 -0500 General Sources http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32062211/ The first results from a large-scale study of key antimalarial medicines in ten Sub-Saharan African countries have revealed that a high percentage of medicines circulating on national markets are of s... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32061507/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:50:36 -0500 afrol News http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32061507/ Japan became one of the largest contributors into the funds last week with a $100 million pledge that has helped to secure the funding base and launch the operational phase of two new climate programm... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32062213/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:50:36 -0500 afrol News http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32062213/ A new partnership between Finland and FAO is to assist countries to develop sustainable and affordable land administration systems to improve tenure security and land governance in both rural and urba... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32062214/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:50:34 -0500 afrol News http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32062214/ Algerian health officials are negotiating the reduction of its order of swine flu vaccines from 20 to five million doses, saying the cases of the virus have drastically declined in recent months. http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32062217/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:50:31 -0500 afrol News http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32062217/ The World Bank has awarded P1 million (about $100,000) to Botswana artists for the project aimed at encouraging behavioural change among youth and adults in Francistown. The young artists had submitte... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32062216/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:50:30 -0500 afrol News http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32062216/ Kenyan authorities have denied reports alleging that it has trained over 2 500 Somali troops who are ready to join the government battle against the radical Islamist group, Al Shabaab. http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32062218/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:50:28 -0500 afrol News http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32062218/ Amal Meseha, the mother of Abanoub Atef, one of the 6 Copts who was killed on Jan. 6 during a bloody Coptic Christmas Eve attack in the southern town of Nag Hamadi, grieves as she waves her son's post... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32059260/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:35:42 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32059260/ FACTORS TO WATCH: Analysts are looking for signs of whether annual urban inflation rate -- Egypt's most closely watched indicator of prices -- will slide after a series of monthly declines, and imp... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32059537/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:26:53 -0500 Reuters http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32059537/ CAIRO, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Egypt's tourism earnings, a key source of foreign exchange, dipped just 2.1 percent last year thanks to an upswing in Russian and British arrivals and may rise significantl... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32059538/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:26:53 -0500 Reuters http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32059538/ Egypt's tourism earnings, a key source of foreign exchange, dipped just 2.1 percent last year thanks to an upswing in Russian and British arrivals and may rise significantly in 2010, the tourism m... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32056826/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:23:18 -0500 World Bulletin http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32056826/ (MENAFN) The Egypt Ministry of Culture said that has appointed Hill/Ehaf, a joint venture between Hill International and Ehaf Consulting Engineers, to provide project management services for the Grand... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32055250/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:36:43 -0500 MENAFN http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32055250/ GAZA, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Hamas has failed to pay the January salaries of many of the 34,000 Palestinian civil servants and security men in the Gaza Strip, raising concern among them that the globall... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32055249/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:14:25 -0500 Reuters http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32055249/ Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood and two other top figures have been arrested by police in a dawn sweep that also grabbed 10 senior members across five provinces, police and members of the group ... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32055010/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:10:14 -0500 Sun-Sentinel http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32055010/ STOCKS NEWS Reuters Results diary Europe Real-time Equity News UK Stocks on the move UK smallcaps UK smallcaps news 08:46GMT 08Dec2010-Intl Power up on fresh GDF Suez speculation ---------------------... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32053212/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:31:24 -0500 London South East http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32053212/ Egypt is to close its sea border to the Gaza-bound supplies as it reinforces the restrictions against the passage of sustenance into the strip. Cairo has ordered a port to be built at its maritime bor... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32053367/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:29:03 -0500 Palestine Chronicle http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32053367/ Egypt Yellow Pages Ltd, the Local Search Company, announced, that its new service for booking hotels online directly is now live on Yellow.com.eg. This service is the result of its recent strategic pa... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32053112/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:23:10 -0500 AME Info http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32053112/ The Technical Commitee of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, and the technical crew of the Super Eagles have been advised to learn from the Egyptians who paraded about 98 percent of home-based play... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32053572/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:16:12 -0500 All Africa http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32053572/ opinion Nairobi — The 14th session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union convened in Addis Ababa from January 31 to February 2 made some significant decisions th... http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32051982/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:54:02 -0500 All Africa http://story.arabherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d7006824400aaac1/id/32051982/