International Business News - EGY http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif When a toilet is flushed in Gaza City, the waste sloshes straight into the Mediterranean. A yearlong standoff between Israel and Hamas has left the territory's sewage system in a state of collapse, flooding its coastal waters with human waste and blanketing crowded beach-side neighborhoods in a fierce stench. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/87015-mideast-israel-palestinians-gaza-war-and-sewage.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080706/sewage-glut-_-another-ugly-result-of-gazas-wars.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080706/sewage-glut-_-another-ugly-result-of-gazas-wars.htm Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:30:59 EDT The United Arab Emirates canceled billions of dollars of Iraqi debt Sunday and moved to restore a full diplomatic mission in Baghdad, evidence of Iraq's improved security and growing acceptance of its Shiite-led government. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/87093-mideast-emirates-iraqi-prime-minister.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080706/report-united-arab-emirates-cancels-iraqi-debt.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080706/report-united-arab-emirates-cancels-iraqi-debt.htm Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:58:26 EDT German Chancellor Angela Merkel took a tough stance against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, condemning his re-election last week as illegitimate and vowing in an interview with The Associated Press that the European Union would seek "all possible sanctions" against the country's government and leader. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/85783-germany-merkel.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/merkel-takes-tough-stance-on-zimbabwe-sanctions.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/merkel-takes-tough-stance-on-zimbabwe-sanctions.htm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:40:43 EDT Saudi Arabia has invited an Israeli rabbi to an interfaith conference in Spain, potentially the first step in wider contacts between the kingdom and Israel, the rabbi told The Associated Press on Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/85175-mideast-israel-saudi-interfaith.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/israeli-rabbi-invited-to-saudi-interfaith-meeting.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/israeli-rabbi-invited-to-saudi-interfaith-meeting.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:29:00 EDT Sweden will pay 3 million kronor ($502,000) in compensation to an exonerated Egyptian terrorism suspect who was handed over to CIA agents and deported in 2001, the government said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080703/sweden-pays-500-000-to-exonerated-terror-suspect.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:21:43 EDT Zambia's president was hospitalized in Paris on Wednesday, a French official said, after medical treatment in Egypt for what hospital officials said was a brain hemorrhage. His condition was not immediately clear. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/84135-france-zambia.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/zambian-president-hospitalized-in-french-capital.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/zambian-president-hospitalized-in-french-capital.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:37:49 EDT Hundreds of Palestinians stormed the Gaza Strip's border crossing with Egypt Wednesday, throwing rocks at Egyptian troops and demanding to cross, witnesses said. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/84102-mideast-israel-palestinians.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/palestinians-storm-egyptian-border.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/palestinians-storm-egyptian-border.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:41:30 EDT The head of an Egyptian hospital says Zambia's president was in a semi-coma when medically evacuated to Paris from the African Union summit. Saeed Abdel Fattah Essa says President Levy Mwanawasa had a "brain hemorrhage," which Egyptian doctors stopped when he was taken to his hospital on Sunday. Essa says Wednesday that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak visited Mwanawasa before his evacuation Tuesday evening. A semi-coma is a mild or partial comatose state. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/doctor-zambian-president-in-semi-coma.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:53:03 EDT Garven F. Hudgins, a former Associated Press foreign correspondent who covered the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, has died, his family said. He was 84. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/ap-correspondent-who-covered-eichmann-trial-dies.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:39:37 EDT The number of Iraqi refugees admitted into the United States continued to rise in June, crossing the halfway point on the Bush administration's goal of 12,000 by the end of September. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/us-admitted-1-721-iraqi-refugees-in-june.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:35:27 EDT A spokesman for Egypt's Foreign Ministry says the president of Zambia has been taken to France for further treatment after a successful surgery in Egypt. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/zambian-president-taken-to-france-after-surgery.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:20:16 EDT There is nowhere to hide from inflation. Prices in one in four countries, many of them in emerging markets, are accelerating at a double-digit pace, which puts them at least two and a half times the 4 percent annual U.S. headline inflation rate, according to new research from Morgan Stanley. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/all-business-crippling-effect-of-global-inflation.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:12:23 EDT Zimbabwe's opposition took a hard line Tuesday on possible negotiations with President Robert Mugabe's government, saying Mugabe had closed the door by going ahead with a sham election. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/83224-mideast-egypt-african-union-zimbabwe.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/zimbabwe-aid-groups-eager-to-resume-work.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/zimbabwe-aid-groups-eager-to-resume-work.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:28:49 EDT African efforts to encourage a deal between Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and his opponents showed no results Tuesday, while Mugabe's spokesman defiantly said his boss has no plans to step down and told Western critics they can "go hang." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/83539-mideast-egypt-african-union-zimbabwe.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/zimbabwe-presidents-spokesman-west-hang.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/zimbabwe-presidents-spokesman-west-hang.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:11:27 EDT Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak met briefly Tuesday on the sidelines of a worldwide socialist party conference near Athens. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/83092-greece-socialist-international.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/palestinian-leader-israeli-defense-minister-meet.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/palestinian-leader-israeli-defense-minister-meet.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:16:21 EDT Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe will not step down and Western critics who called the country's recent election a sham can "go hang," the longtime ruler's spokesman said Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/83080-mideast-egypt-african-union-zimbabwe.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/mugabe-spokesman-to-west-go-hang.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/mugabe-spokesman-to-west-go-hang.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:55:40 EDT Egyptian security are restricting journalists covering an African Union summit after a British TV crew got into a verbal confrontation with Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/tv-crew-challenges-mugabe.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:40:45 EDT The Netherlands' Foreign Ministry says Zimbabwe's opposition leader has left the Dutch Embassy in Harare. Ministry spokesman Rob Dekker says Morgan Tsvangirai departed Monday after he decided the situation in Zimbabwe was calm enough for him to return to his home. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/zimbabwe-opposition-leader-leaves-dutch-embassy.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:49:44 EDT Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned Palestinian militants on Tuesday that Israel would respond with force if attacks from the Gaza Strip persist in defiance of a recent truce. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/83265-mideast-israel-palestinians.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/israel-seals-gaza-crossings-after-rocket-attack.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/israel-seals-gaza-crossings-after-rocket-attack.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:07:09 EDT A motley group of foreigners--English teachers, students of Arabic, even a journalist--gathered on a recent chilly night in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, brought together by a love of cinema, curiosity and a furtive hope of catching a glimpse of Omar Sharif. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/82732-film-extras-in-egypt.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080630/western-extras-play-bit-parts-in-new-egyptian-film.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080630/western-extras-play-bit-parts-in-new-egyptian-film.htm Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:26:23 EDT