The Middle East Quartet has agreed to ease the humanitarian crisis in the occupied territories, though without addressing the context that caused it, writes Graham Usher

Until now, no solution seems in the offing to the fiscal crisis facing Hamas and the Palestinian people, reports Erica Silverman

A recent escalation of protests by pro-reform activists was met with increased police violence, Salonaz Sami reports

On Tuesday police shot dead the man they claim is the mastermind of the group behind Sinai's suicide bombings and captured his aide, reports Jailan Halawi

After last week's rubber-stamping of the emergency law extension, the NDP gears itself for yet more political legislation, reports Gamal Essam El-Din

A court ruling providing official recognition to Bahais has done little to ease the debate on this Israeli-based cult. Gihan Shahine reports on its followers and their beliefs

A parliamentary report criticises official reactions to the bird flu crisis, reports Reem Leila

A peace deal for Darfur is in the offing, but real peace on the ground is a long way off, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Washington dismisses a letter sent to Bush by Ahmadinejad as negotiations continue in the Security Council over a binding ultimatum on Iran, Rasha Saad reports

Turkey's decision to launch the largest military operation in a decade against Kurdish rebels strains Ankara's relations with both Iraq and the US and further remilitarises the country's decades-old Kurdish problem, writes Gareth Jenkins

Could the fourth year of the Iraq invasion see the country divided into several entities, asks Firas Al-Atraqchi

The verdict sparing the life of Zacarias Moussaoui, who was facing execution in connection with 11 September, has been received with mixed emotions, Tamam Ahmed Jama reports from Paris

In the mid-1970s, the theatre troupe "La tempête" articulated the dilemmas faced by North African immigrants to France. The pity, writes Magdi Youssef, is that the lessons were not learned

Why should the mentally challenged be media-shy, asks Nashwa Abdel-Tawab

By Gamal Nkrumah