Yasser Salama   Yasser Salama, a baker by trade, was born in 1973 and is a resident of Zawya El-Hamra. He has been in Tahrir Square since Jan. 28. “I saw people being shot and thought I’d come and die with dignity here.” He relates with other protesters, especially those who have problems caused …

CAIRO: Regulations for public media coverage guidelines and the electoral process of the People’s Assembly elections taking place in November were announced by the Ministry of Information and the Supreme Electoral Commission, respectively. Last Saturday, the Supreme Electoral Commission adopted three resolutions for the upcoming elections. The commission was formed after the 2007 constitutional amendments, …

CAIRO: The Ismailia Criminal Court argued against foreign ownership of land and property in Sinai during a verdict it handed out in a case regarding the issue over foreign ownership of property in Sharm El-Sheikh last week. The case involved forgery of documentation to sell housing units in the resort of Coral Bay to foreign …

WASHINGTON/CAIRO: To maintain a new policy of less on-the-ground interference in the Middle East, the United States would by and large accept a scenario of the Egyptian inheritance of power and is unlikely to exercise a military option against Iran, American researchers told Daily News Egypt. The US is a strong ally of the Egyptian …

CAIRO: An Egyptian soldier was killed in an accident on the border near Rafah after he was run over by an armored vehicle Sunday, according to official reports. Central Security forces soldier Yehia Shawqi Al-Sayed, 22, was killed when he was run over by a police armored vehicle in Al-Ahrash area near Rafah and on …

CAIRO: National Democratic Party (NDP) Secretary General Safwat El-Sherif rejected calls for international monitoring by foreign observers of the elections for the People’s Assembly, set for November. El-Sherif was responding to comments made by US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner in Cairo last Saturday when he called for …

CAIRO: Israel is set to name a new ambassador to Egypt after incumbent Yitzhak Levanon declined to continue in his post past his retirement age despite having been in Egypt for less than a year. The name of Ya’acov Amitai was announced Sunday as the replacement by the Appointments Committee of the Israeli Ministry of …

CAIRO: The announcement last week that Egypt and Iran had signed a memorandum of understanding to resume flights between Cairo and Tehran has prompted speculation that it could lead to the resumption of formal ties, frozen since 1980. Last week on Sunday, Civil Aviation Authority head Sameh El-Hefni and Iranian National Aviation Company Deputy Hamid …

CAIRO: President Hosni Mubarak’s speech to commemorate the Oct. 6, 1973 War Wednesday was part campaign-trail accomplishment listing and a warning shot to Egyptian Islamist groups. With parliamentary elections due later next month, Mubarak, after lauding the role of Armed Forces in the 1973 war with Israel and highlighting the importance of peace in the …

CAIRO: Candidates intending to run in the upcoming parliamentary elections from various political groups in Sinai convened Monday and pledged to adopt agreed upon solutions to limit violence against residents of Sinai. Gathering in Sheikh Zuwayed and calling themselves People of Sinai Against Violence, representatives of both mainstream and opposition parties, such as the National …

CAIRO: Egypt has reacted strongly to remarks allegedly made by Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki regarding his description of participants in the direct peace talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israel that kick off in Washington Thursday as “traitors”. As a result, Egypt’s Foreign Ministry confirmed in a statement Wednesday that it had cancelled a …

CAIRO: Head of the policies committee of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) Gamal Mubarak has accompanied his father President Hosni Mubarak to Washington for the opening of the latest round of direct peace talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israel being brokered by the United States. Mubarak junior’s trip to Washington has again fuelled …

CAIRO: An additional five weapons’ caches were discovered in Sinai near the Gaza border Sunday — a day after police had seized six caches — and five tunnels beneath the border were discovered and shut down. Three men have been detained in the town of Sheikh Zuwayed near the border in relation to the latest …

CAIRO: After a two-year hiatus, direct negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis are set to kick off next month in Washington, but wariness prevails regarding the intentions of the Israeli Prime Minister and Hamas. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had extended the invitation to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu …

CAIRO: Reports of two Egyptians receiving life sentences in Qatar for spying four months ago remain unconfirmed by both Egyptian and Qatari officials. Al-Masry Al-Youm had reported that two Egyptians, one of whom was identified as Nabil Abdel-Basir, an employee at a Qatari newspaper, had been sentenced by a court in Doha for espionage on …

CAIRO: The death of seven African migrants at the hands of smugglers and police in Sinai last Friday has angered Bedouin activists who have called for better protection for them in the peninsula. The seven Eritreans were killed from a shootout last Friday as they attempted to escape the clutches of smugglers who had promised …

CAIRO: Al-Wafd party has released a preliminary list of its proposed candidates for the People’s Assembly elections next November if the party decides against a boycott. The party’s executive committee released the names of 125 candidates, but in a meeting Tuesday chaired by party leader Al-Sayed Al-Badawi the party decided to extend the deadline for …

CAIRO: The state is using Bedouins tried in absentia and wanted by the courts to track the assailants behind recent rocket attacks on Jordan and Israel, a source in Sinai told Daily News Egypt. The source, who asked to remain anonymous, said that indirect contact between authorities and the wanted Bedouins via intermediaries, such as …

CAIRO: After repeated denials, Egypt has stated that rocket attacks launched on Jordan and Israel did come from Sinai, and were carried out by members of Hamas. The official MENA news agency quoted a security official as saying, “The preliminary information that the security has received indicates that Palestinian factions from the Gaza Strip are …

CAIRO: The rocket attacks on Eilat in Israel and Aqaba in Jordan which some have claimed originated from Sinai indicate the lack of authority Egypt is permitted over its border under the peace treaty with Israel, a Bedouin activist said. North Sinai Tagammu party member Khalil Jabr Sawarkeh told Daily News Egypt that Egypt had …

CAIRO: A bill referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations in the US Congress last week and co-sponsored by former presidential candidate John McCain, is calling for supporting democracy and civil liberties in Egypt. The proposed bill, Senate Resolution 586, put forward by Democrat Senator Russell Feingold, and entitled “A resolution supporting democracy, human rights, …

CAIRO: A Bedouin spokesman wanted by authorities has vowed that Bedouin outcasts will not back down in their struggle with the state in the area of Wadi Amr in Central Sinai nor will they turn over wanted tribesmen to the state. Tarabin member and spokesman Moussa El-Dilh — who is now also wanted by the …

CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) hosted a meeting Tuesday at its parliamentary headquarters where it invited over 35 opposition figureheads to formulate a plan of action for the upcoming period regarding political reform. At the invitation of the group’s supreme guide, Mohamed Badie, opposition figures such as Hassan Nafaa from the National Association for Change …

CAIRO: The “Together We Will Change” campaign to acquire signatures calling for political reform has amassed over 200,000 signatures, according to the head of the campaign Abdelrahman Yousef. Yousef, who runs the site listing the seven specific demands for political reform called for by former IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei, told Daily News Egypt that the …