As both inside and outside pressure mounted on him, Egypt President Hosni Mubarak has apparently fled the country on Friday morning
Nagesh Narayana
Feb 11, 2011
Egypt must do more to meet protesters' demands for political change, the United States said on Wednesday in a sharp escalation of rhetoric with one of its most important allies in the Middle East.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 10, 2011
U.S.-Egyptian scientist Ahmed Zewail once received a medal from President Hosni Mubarak. Now, he says, it's time for the Egyptian leader to heed the demonstrators clamouring for his departure.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 10, 2011
The fate of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak will be decided in a matter of hours and most probably he will step down, an Egyptian official told Reuters on Thursday.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 10, 2011
A group of 100 faculty members has written to the Orange County district attorney requesting him to drop the charges against the students, saying that they have already been sufficiently penalized and disciplined by the University administration for their misdemeanor.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 10, 2011
Egyptians counted the economic cost of more than two weeks of turmoil on Wednesday as protesters on Cairo's Tahrir Square looked ahead to their next big push to oust President Hosni Mubarak later in the week.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 09, 2011
While the nomination is a part of the campaign to build a Palestinian state, tourism experts are hoping for a surge in arrivals post Bethlehem’s inclusion in UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites list.
Sanskrity Sinha
Feb 08, 2011
One of the many ironies of American politics is that while top Republican politicians are eager to show their support for the state of Israel, Jewish voters in the U.S. remain overwhelmingly in the camp of the Democratic Party.
Palash Ghosh
Feb 07, 2011
A Chechen warlord – one of the most wanted men in Russia – has taken responsibility for carrying out the suicide bomb attack last month which killed 36 people and injured 180 in a Moscow airport.
Palash Ghosh
Feb 07, 2011
George W. Bush, the former president of the U.S., cancelled a trip to Switzerland for next weekend due to potential protest demonstrations by human rights groups over the treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay as well as the threat of his arrest
Palash Ghosh
Feb 07, 2011
President Hosni Mubarak held onto power Monday, defying a popular uprising against his autocratic rule, after the government opened talks with opposition groups to resolve Egypt's deepest crisis in 30 years.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 07, 2011
Gas supplies from Egypt to Israel could resume within a week after a fire at a gas metering station, an Israeli partner in the pipeline said on Sunday, without referring to sabotage as reported in Egypt.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 07, 2011
Egypt's new vice president, Omar Suleiman, has long sought to demonize the opposition Muslim Brotherhood in his contacts with skeptical U.S. officials, leaked diplomatic cables show, raising questions whether he can act as an honest broker in the country's political crisis.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 07, 2011
Egypt tried to get the nation back to work on Sunday with banks reopening, and the vice president held unprecedented talks with a banned Islamist group and other opponents about their demand that President Hosni Mubarak quit.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 07, 2011
Cruise enthusiasts can look forward to sailing across some of the hidden harbors and secluded coves of the world this year as Windstar Cruises offers its guests a choice of diverse itineraries in 2011 and winter 2012.
Sanskrity Sinha
Feb 05, 2011
Two Eurofighter Typhoons of the Italian Air Force arrived at Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bengaluru, India, on Friday to showcase their outstanding operational capabilities at “Asia’s premiere air show,” Aero India 2011.
Sanskrity Sinha
Feb 05, 2011
The following is an edited interview with Ellen Lust, a professor of political science at Yale University
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 04, 2011
Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians marched peacefully in Cairo on Friday to demand an immediate end to President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule, but there was no sign of his generals, or his U.S. allies, squeezing him out just yet.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 04, 2011
Among the issues raised by the recent outbreak of civil unrest in the Middle East and North Africa is the rapidly growing population in some of these countries. This subject has particularly stark implications for Israel.
Palash Ghosh
Feb 04, 2011
Egypt's government struggled to regain control of an angry nation, inviting Islamist opponents to political talks as protesters demanding the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak battled with his supporters on the streets.
IBT Staff Reporter
Feb 03, 2011
Here is a collection of reaction to the latest escalation of civil unrest and violence in Egypt from around the world:
Palash Ghosh
Feb 03, 2011
The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: Hansen Medical, Shutterfly, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Netlist and Entropic Communications. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are Intersil Corp, Travelzoo, ON Semiconductor Corp, Ampal-American Israel and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries.
Satya Nagendra Padala
Feb 03, 2011
