Euro road map
Cairo welcomed the EU's efforts to activate existing peace ideas to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the European body's rejection of military strikes against Iraq, reports Soha Abdelaty

House cleaning
The fallout from the on-going clampdown on corruption is extending to previously untouchable state figures. But where is it leading, asks Amira Howeidy

Solidarity squeeze
A prominent 80-year-old trade union leader faces imprisonment for collecting donations for Palestine

Brotherhood on a leash
The trial of 101 Muslim Brotherhood activists accused of rioting during recent by-elections in Alexandria opened amid chaotic scenes. Khaled Dawoud was there

Standing up to intimidation
Al-Ahram's Ibrahim Nafie, in a televised interview, said that criticism by Zionist lobbies of the Egyptian press will not silence its condemnation of Israeli policies, writes Jailan Halawi

Children in the middle
After months of taking refuge in her embassy, a Swiss mother is standing her ground in preventing her Egyptian ex-husband from seeing their children. Mona El-Nahhas reports

Coast of the flies
A research centre's report on Egypt's first landfill has added to the controversy surrounding the location of the project near a North Coast beach resort. Gihan Shahine samples the debate

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