Cairo - Egyptian security forces have detained 10 suspects in connection with the bomb attack in Cairo on Sunday that killed a French tourist, a security source told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on Wednesday.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, did not elaborate.

Twenty-four people, including a young Egyptian child, were injured in the blast in Cairo's Medieval quarter.

Taipei  - Taiwan posted yet another record slump of 41.67 per cent in export orders in January, as deteriorating global economic conditions further eroded overseas demands, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said Tuesday.

In January, the island received orders worth just 17.68 billion US dollars, down 41.67 per cent year-on-year, following a 33-per-cent decline in December, the ministry said in a statement.

Cairo - Refaat al-Sheikh, like many of the shop owners in Cairo's Medieval Khan al-Khalili bazaar, on Monday sat idly on a wooden chair in front of his shop with a sad look on his face.

"The situation is as you can see," he told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa, gesturing at normally bustling market streets now populated mostly by police and journalists.

"First the financial crisis, and now this bomb?"

Cairo  - As the morning light broke on Monday over minarets crowding the 1,500-year-old Cairo neighbourhood where a bomb had killed a French tourist and wounded 21 others the night before, Egyptians tried to make sense of the attack.

Many asked themselves who could have been responsible.

"We cannot really point a finger and say an Iranian or a Jew did it, maybe it is someone from Gaza who wants to tell people, 'wake up,' because these bombings are frequent in places like Gaza and Iraq," said Rifaat al-Sheikh told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on Monday.

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Cairo - Deputy al-Qaeda leader Amyan al-Zawahiri urged Hamas not to accept a truce to end fighting in the Gaza Strip in a new video message distributed over the Internet.

"Israel's Arab aides are attempting to impose on the people of Gaza a truce which will stop their Jihad in exchange for the lifting of the embargo (on the Gaza Strip)," al-Zawahiri said, according to a transcript of the tape posted to Islamist websites alongside the video on Sunday.