http://egypt-news.asfory.com Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:08:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en  Egypt's top cleric, Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, known for promoting the government agenda against female genital mutilation and the face veil, died of a heart attack Wednesday during a visit to Saudi Arabia. He was 81. Tantawi was the grand sheik of Cairo's Al-Azhar, the pre-eminent theological institute of Sunni Islam, ... http://egypt-news.asfory.com/2010/03/10/egypts-top-muslim-cleric-dies-of-heart-attack/ صرح الدكتور حاتم الجبلي وزير الصحة بأن الرئيس حسنى مبارك غادر وحدة الرعاية المركزة صباح الأربعاء إلى غرفة عادية بمستشفى هايدلبرج الجامعى. وأكد الجبلي ، بحسب ما ذكر راديو مصر مساء الأربعاء، أن الحالة الصحية العامة للرئيس فى تحسن مستمر تحت إشراف الفريق الطبى المعالج. وكان الرئيس مبارك قد أجرى صباح السبت ... http://egypt-news.asfory.com/2010/03/10/caieai-canaeio-aecnss-iucin-canucie-caanssoe-aecoeancn-eioa-icaea-caoiie/  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Defense Secretary Robert Gates traded barbs on Wednesday during briefly overlapping visits to Afghanistan, where Washington has troops at war but Tehran has growing clout. Ahmadinejad, who arrived as Gates was wrapping up a three-day visit, told a news conference alongside Afghan President Hamid Karzai that ... http://egypt-news.asfory.com/2010/03/10/ahmadinejad-gates-trade-barbs-in-afghanistan/  Initial results from Iraq's national election are likely to be released by Thursday, Iraqi and U.N. officials said on Wednesday, as further signs emerged of a strong showing for Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. The Iraqi National Alliance (INA), a largely Shi'ite group that is challenging Maliki's bid to win a ... http://egypt-news.asfory.com/2010/03/10/iraq-pm-said-to-be-ahead-on-eve-of-vote-results/ A court case brought by the family of Rachel Corrie, a US protester killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in 2003, has begun in Israel. The civil action against the Israeli defence ministry will decide whether damages should be paid for her death in Gaza at the age of 23. Click here ... http://egypt-news.asfory.com/2010/03/10/rachel-corrie-relatives-sue-israel-over-her-death/ Vice President Joe Biden publicly scolded Israel on Wednesday over a Jewish settlement plan, saying it was undermining peace efforts after Palestinians agreed to U.S.-mediated talks. "It is incumbent on both parties to build an atmosphere of support for negotiations and not to complicate them," Biden said in a media ... http://egypt-news.asfory.com/2010/03/10/biden-scolds-israel-over-settlement-plan/ The US state department has apologised for comments made about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's call for jihad against Switzerland. Department spokesman PJ Crowley, who made the dismissive comments, said they did not reflect US policy and were not intended to offend. Col Gaddafi had criticised a Swiss vote against the building of ... http://egypt-news.asfory.com/2010/03/10/us-apologises-over-gaddafi-comments/ Israel and Syria have both told a conference in Paris they want to use nuclear power to generate electricity. Israeli Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau told delegates his country wanted to build new nuclear plants to reduce its dependence on coal. Syria's deputy foreign minister said the peaceful application of nuclear energy should ... http://egypt-news.asfory.com/2010/03/10/israel-and-syria-announce-nuclear-energy-ambitions/ Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday denounced the "atrocious" bloodshed in Nigeria after a massacre of Christian villagers, as police said 49 people would be charged over the killings. As new gunfire added to the tensions around the flashpoint city of Jos, the Catholic Pontiff added his voice to a chorus of ... http://egypt-news.asfory.com/2010/03/10/pope-denounces-atrocious-nigeria-bloodshed/ A new play has shocked audiences in the Gaza Strip by shouting out what many in the Hamas-ruled territory mutter behind closed doors -- that Palestinian politicians are a bunch of crooks. The biting comedy entitled "Umbilical Cord" goes after the Islamist Hamas and its secular Fatah rivals, accusing them of ... http://egypt-news.asfory.com/2010/03/10/bold-new-gaza-play-skewers-fatah-and-hamas/