Interim President Adly Mansour on Tuesday appointed economist Hazem Beblawi prime minister and tasked him with forming a new government.
Mansour also appointed National Salvation Front General Coordinator Mohamed ElBaradei vice president.
State-run (...)
Hundreds of protesters supporting ousted President Mohamed Morsy flocked on Friday to Rab'a al-Adaweya mosque in Nasr City to take part in a sit-in that has been taking place for the last eight days.
Demonstrators staged marches heading towards Nasr (...)
Sovereign bodies have given instructions to security authorities at Cairo International Airport to prevent Muslim Brotherhood and Wasat Party leaders, as well as former members of the People's Assembly and the Freedom and Justice Party, from (...)
The spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry has reiterated that Egypt enjoys a close relationship with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), one that is based on mutual respect and common interests.
This statement comes in response to remarks made by Essam (...)
Clashes flared Sunday between students from Ain Shams University demanding enhanced security measures on campus and unknown attackers, according to satellite channel Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr.
The protesters were marching from the Abbasseya district (...)
Prominent mystery fiction writer Mahmoud Salem died Sunday at the age of 84, after a life full of adventure, both in his real life and in his best-selling stories.
Salem was born in 1929 and spent his childhood moving between different cities around (...)
Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Ismailia, Port Said and Suez Governorates after 9 pm Monday, in a direct challenge to President Mohamed Morsy's decision to impose a curfew there.
Morsy had imposed the 9 pm to 6 am curfew and declared (...)
At least seven people were killed, Al Jazeera reported, and at least eight others injured when an eight-story residential building collapsed in Mamora, eastern Alexandria early Wednesday.
Civil Defense forces recovered two bodies from the rubble and (...)
Nineteen Central Security personnel were killed and other 120 were injured on Monday after a Cairo-bound train coming from Assiut derailed at the Badrashin train station in Giza, the Transportation Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
The (...)
The Shura Council Economic Committee proposed a draft law for Islamic bonds, or sukuk, Mohamed al-Fiqqi, chairman of the committee told Al-Masry Al-Youm.
He said the law is different from one prepared by the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice (...)
Former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh said in a meeting with other political figures that the National Salvation Front must purify itself of former regime remnants before his party allies with it, sources who attended the meeting (...)
A group of 15 people assaulted and beat Judges Club head Ahmed al-Zend as he left the club's headquarters in downtown Cairo Sunday night. He was brought back into the headquarters with minor injuries.
Al-Masry Al-Youm reported that the assailants (...)
A judicial source at the High Judicial Elections Commission told state-run Al-Ahram website that the HJEC on Wednesday accepted the resignation of Zaghloul al-Balshy, the secretary general, who tendered it for health reasons.
In his resignation, (...)
The constitutional referendum will be held on its previously specified date of 15 December and the constitutional declaration issued by President Mohamed Morsy on 22 November has been largely canceled , Mohamed Selim al-Awa announced in a press (...)
The Palestinian death toll rose to 15 Thursday evening in a military showdown lurching closer to all-out war and an invasion of the enclave.
On the second day of an assault Israel said might last many days and culminate in a ground attack, its (...)
Abdel Khaleq al-Sherif, head of the Muslim Brotherhood's advocacy and guidance department, has asked Al-Azhar, the Ministry of Endowments and scholars to issue a collective fatwa on the permissibility of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan in (...)
The spokesperson for the Salafi-led Nour Party rejected a fatwa issued by a member of Al-Azhar's religious edicts committee urging violent confrontations at the planned 24 August protests against Muslim Brotherhood rule.
"Freedom of expression is (...)
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde will visit Egypt next week in a show of IMF support for Egypt's transition.
“At the invitation of the Egyptian authorities, Managing Director Christine Lagarde ... will visit Egypt on 22 August,” (...)
Presidential candidates running in the upcoming election used the Sham al-Nessim celebration as a chance to reach out to Egyptians.
Hopeful Hamdeen Sabbahi, whose presidential campaign is titled “One of Us,” head to Kanater, the Nile Barrages, on a (...)
The Egyptian Administrative Court issued a ruling Saturday that presidential candiate for the Ghad al-Thawra Party Ayman Nour is not eligible to run for president, asking that Nour's recent pardon be revoked.
Justice Abdul Salam al-Nagar, (...)
Pro-Abu Ismail protesters destroyed a stage set up by anti-Constituent Assembly protesters in Tahrir Square on Friday.
Twenty political parties, movements and coalitions had called for a demonstration to protest Islamist domination over the (...)
Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Araby on Monday expressed his regret for the comments of Mahmoud Ghazlan, spokesperson for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, against the United Arab Emirates, which he called "hostile."
Ghazlan criticized the (...)
Tarek al-Mahdy, governor of New Valley and former member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), survived a shoot-out with unidentified men on Monday.
A security source said Mahdy was following up on a notification that he had received on (...)
A witness in the case regarding the export of gas to Israel for under-market prices has said that former Petroleum Minister Sameh Fahmy was primarily responsible for setting the prices, and that he had the power to modify or reverse decisions made (...)
Ammar Ali Hassan, a writer and political researcher, and his brother Khalaf, a reporter with Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper, were beaten by military police stationed at the barrier before the cabinet building on Qasr al-Aini Street in Cairo on (...)