Cairo - Morocco announced on Friday that it is cutting diplomatic ties with Iran, following a dispute over the sovereignty of the Gulf state of Bahrain.
The move appears to be the culmination of a diplomatic row between Morocco and Iran over Tehran's alleged questioning of Bahrain`s independence.
The Moroccan Foreign Ministry said in a statement it made the decision effective as of Friday.
Cairo - A 60-year-old Christian man has been stabbed to death in an Egyptian village following a week of sectarian tension surrounding an illicit love affair, local Christian church sources reported on Friday.
Police in the province of Qalubiya, north of Cairo, arrested a 24- year-old Muslim man, Yasser Ahmed Qassem, on suspicion of stabbing to death the father of a Christian man believed to have been having an affair with Qassem's sister.
Cairo - Archaeologists have discovered two ancient statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, the Egyptian Antiquities Authority announced Thursday.
One of the monolithic statues, carved from quartzite, depicts the pharaoh as a sphinx, archaeologists said. The second statue, carved from black granite, shows Amenhotep III in a seated position. They were unearthed in front his mortuary temple near modern Luxor, the site of the ancient Egyptian capital of Thebes.
Cairo - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will participate in an Arab League summit in Qatar at the end of this month, despite an international warrant for his arrest, Sudan's representative at the Arab League told reporters Wednesday.
"Al-Bashir will continue his tasks as the president of Sudan," Ali Karti, Sudan's representative to the Arab League, told reporters at the Arab Leagues headquarters in Cairo on Wednesday.
Cairo - Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told Arab foreign ministers on Tuesday that a joint Arab policy is the only way to deal with the "Iranian challenge" as well as the "Arab- Israeli struggle."
Al-Faisal was addressing participants in the Arab League's meeting of 22 foreign ministers in its headquarters in Cairo.
Cairo - The US embassy in Egypt on Tuesday told its citizens to be more cautious after a series of attacks in an area popular with tourists last month, saying that further attacks could be planned.
On February 22nd, a bomb exploded in the 1,500-year-old Khan al- Khalili bazaar killing a French tourist and wounding 21 others. Several days later an American teacher was attacked by a man with a knife.
Cairo - Morocco announced on Friday that it is cutting diplomatic ties with Iran, following a dispute over the sovereignty of the Gulf state of Bahrain.
Cairo - A 60-year-old Christian man has been stabbed to death in an Egyptian village following a week of sectarian tension surrounding an illicit love affair, local Christian church sources reported on Friday. 
Cairo - Archaeologists have discovered two ancient statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, the Egyptian Antiquities Authority announced Thursday.
Cairo - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will participate in an Arab League summit in Qatar at the end of this month, despite an international warrant for his arrest, Sudan's representative at the Arab League told reporters Wednesday.
Cairo - Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told Arab foreign ministers on Tuesday that a joint Arab policy is the only way to deal with the "Iranian challenge" as well as the "Arab- Israeli struggle."
