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CAIRO — His phone doesn't ring and his charts are gloomy. But every day Mostafa Ismail, a financial broker with a hangman's demeanor, steps into the Egyptian stock exchange hoping for positive blips. They are rare in a nation where revolution...

ALGIERS, May 9 (Reuters) - The Algerian government will seek a new valuation for Vimpelcom's local mobile phone unit Djezzy before acquiring 51 percent of it, a government source told Reuters. "There will be a new valuation of Djezzy," the source, who...

By Jeremy Wagstaff SINGAPORE, April 29 (Reuters) - Cellular operator Digicel Group Ltd jumped into Myanmar early and big, hiring staff, funding local sports, negotiating land deals for thousands of cell tower sites and signing up hundreds of partners for...

* Market's worries as much about regulation as economy * Investors suspect government unsympathetic to market * May be settling political scores, raising money for deficit * But inexperienced government may be on learning curve * Some recent signs...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - State and local officials promised an Egyptian company $200 million in tax breaks to build a fertilizer plant in southeast Iowa without knowledge of a pending lawsuit alleging one of the company's subsidiaries defrauded U.S....

Christian billionaire Naguib Sawiris is scheduled to appear in court on Jan.14 after he was charged Monday with "blasphemy and insulting Islam" by Cairo prosecutors, state newspaper Al Ahram quoted judiciary sources as saying on its website....

A picture of Mickey Mouse with long beard and Minnie with a full-face veil posted on businessman Naguib Sawiris’ Twitter account has enraged Muslims and prompted 15 lawyers to file a lawsuit against him for blasphemy and insulting Islam. The......

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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has sought to calm an angry and defeated Egypt following the nation's dramatic soccer loss to Algeria, which has led to riots in the streets and a nasty international political row between the two North African......

Egypt's Foreign Ministry announced that Algeria's ambassador in Cairo Abdel Qader Hadjar has been called on to explain the violence against Egyptians living in Algeria following the two countries' football World Cup qualifier, the ministry's official...

North Korea's phantom hotel is stirring back to life. Once dubbed by Esquire magazine as "the worst building in the history of mankind," the 105-storey Ryugyong Hotel is back under construction after a 16-year lull in the capital of one of the world's...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has repeatedly promoted its efforts to develop Iraq's private-sector economy as an engine of job creation and hope for the country's beleaguered population and a model for an economically backward region. But if Iraq'...