Eurasia Press & News

Intense debate followed a bishop’s controversial announcement about the exact number of Coptic Christians in Egypt. Bishop Basenti of the diocese of Helwan and Massara told a seminar on citizenship that the Copt population was “between 10 million and 15 million”.

Sexual harassment, and even rape, continue to be viewed by society as personal dilemmas rather than criminal acts, writes Reem Leila. Eleven-year-old Hend Mohamed became a mother after being raped by 21-year-old Mohamed Sami, a tuk-tuk driver.

An Egyptian trade delegation is to arrive next Saturday in Sana’a headed by Board Chairman of the gyptian Supplies Authority Saeed al-Hanafi.

A Mideast peace conference called for by President Bush will take place in September on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, an Egyptian envoy said Thursday.

Egypt on Thursday said it had sent medical and food aid to thousands of Palestinians stranded for over a month in increasingly dire conditions on the border with the Gaza Strip.

bmi, Heathrow’s second largest carrier, has today announced that it will launch a new daily service from Cairo to London Heathrow with effect from 28 October this year.

North Korea attracted a huge investment in its cement plant from a big Egyptian construction company, one of the largest private investments in the reclusive country amid reconciliatory moves between Pyongyang and Washington and progress towards the North’s denuclearization.

Surse din cadrul serviciilor de securitate bulgare au declarat pentru mass-media din această ţară că unităţi speciale ale poliţiei de la Sofia au percheziţionat sediile mai multor moschei şi fundaţii religioase musulmane din regiunea oraşului Razgrad.

Relatia dintre femei şi  Islam este o relaţie controversată. Există percepţia conform căreia ele sunt prin lege oprimate şi  persecutate.

Îndeplinirea obiectivelor procesului de transformare a forţelor armate conform statutului României de stat membru NATO şi UE, angajamentele asumate de către România faţă de aceste organisme internaţionale sunt incluse pe ordinea de zi a şedinţei CSAT de astăzi, convocate de către Traian Băsescu.