In a part of Cairo known as the Garbage City, Magada Bamy’s hands move so swiftly that they nearly blur as she sifts through a bag of trash. “Grade A, grade B,” she mutters to herself, placing the ...

To all those, add the rising tide of garbage in Cairo, the world’s largest Arab city. Morsi declared it one of his top five priorities, promising to clean up the streets within 100 days. In so doing, ...

Three curly-haired little girls – only three or four years of age – shuffled past me on the trash-covered street. Their faces were smeared with dirt and their feet, shoeless. They held in their tiny ...

CAIRO -- The pile of trash overwhelmed the median divider on Ahmed Zaki Street and spilled into oncoming traffic -- eggshells, rotten eggplants, soiled diapers, bottles, broken furniture, junked TV ...

“Manshiyat Nasser in Egypt is known to visitors as Cairo’s “Garbage City.” Micah Smith There was no escape from the dust in Cairo. That was especially true in Manshiyat Nasser, known to visitors as ...

CAIRO -- Election fever has even come to Cairo's Garbage City, the sprawling neighborhood built on -- and living from -- the waste of the Egyptian capital. The tens of thousands of impoverished ...

Fed keeps rates steady but pencils in two cuts for 2025; Powell sees 'meaningful' inflation ahead "No one holds these ... rate paths with a great deal of conviction, and everyone would agree that they ...

CAIRO, Egypt — It's unlikely that anyone has ever come to this city and commented on how clean the streets are. But this litter-strewn metropolis is now wrestling with a garbage problem so severe that ...

The pile of trash overwhelmed the median divider on Ahmed Zaki Street and spilled into oncoming traffic - egg shells, rotten eggplants, soiled diapers, bottles, broken furniture, junked TV sets. Flies ...