CAIRO - Egypt's newly appointed Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri said he was still holding consultations over ministers to be included in his Cabinet, whose swearing-in has been delayed due to controversy over some of the would-be (...)
CAIRO – The Higher Elections Commission (HEC) will on Thursday announce final lists of candidates standing in Egypt's parliamentary polls due to start later this month, as the Cabinet drafted a new bill organising the voting for the country's eight (...)
CAIRO - A battle to garner more seats in Egypt's upcoming legislative elections, which are set to produce a parliament to draft the country's constitution, has moved to courtrooms away from electoral campaigns, with revolutionaries insisting on (...)
CAIRO (Updated) - Egypt's Higher Administrative Court overturned a ruling by a lower tribunal barring affiliates of the formerly ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) from standing in the parliamentary elections due later this month, stressing that (...)
CAIRO - Revolutionaries, some political parties and youth groups called on the Higher Election Commission (HEC) to bar all members of former president Hosni Mubarak's disbanded party from running in a parliamentary poll that starts later this month, (...)
CAIRO - Egyptian nationals living abroad started Thursday registering their data on the website of the electoral committee, in order to vote in Egypt's first parliamentary polls since the ousting of Hosni Mubarak, as the Foreign Ministry estimated (...)
CAIRO - Deputy Prime Minister Ali el-Selmi said that proposals for setting specific rules for drafting the nation's new constitution are debatable and that such proposals would be "just guidelines" for the panel to hammer out the (...)
CAIRO - Hundreds of lawyers protested against Egypt's judges for firing bullets in the air to disperse them after a meeting of the Judges' Club on Friday and for their insistence to draft a controversial judicial authority bill despite the absence (...)
CAIRO - A criminal court in the coastal city of Alexandria sentenced two police detectives, who are convicted of beating blogger Khaled Saeed to death in 2010, to seven years in prison, ending a case that sparked the revolution against the rule of (...)
CAIRO - Lawyers in a general assembly meeting at the Bar Association Monday renewed their rejection of a new Judicial Authority bill, which is set to toughen penalties against them, calling on the draft law to be delayed until a new parliament is (...)
CAIRO - Egypt extended for the second time the period to register for parliamentary elections after some political parties asked for more time to file their applications, the head of the High Election Commission (HEC) said.
Abdel Mo'ez Ibrahim, the (...)
CAIRO - An Egyptian judicial official said he didn't violat the secrecy of investigations underway with two sons of former president Hosni Mubarak over money laundering and corruption, refuting allegations by the Mubaraks' defence (...)
CAIRO - A new bill designed to prevent members of the dissolved National Democratic Party (NDP) will be ratified within days, allowing courts to bar those convicted of political corruption from playing politics for five years, Minister of State for (...)
CAIRO (Updated) - An administrative court suspended an election of board members and the chairman of the Egyptian Press Syndicate which was due today, as the de facto chief of the union said the election will be delayed until an appeal against the (...)
CAIRO - The Cabinet, tasked by the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to speedily probe clashes which killed 25 people, ordered the formation of a fact-finding committee to probe the deadly incidents that took place on Sunday outside (...)
CAIRO - The ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has decided to amend the electoral laws to allow members of any party to run for individual seats, bowing to pressures from political parties.
The SCAF also said in a statement after a (...)
CAIRO - Egypt's revolutionaries, most political party affiliates and thousands of ordinary citizens, show up in Tahrir Square and other squares nationwide Friday, in protest against the ruling military council's way of managing the transitional (...)
CAIRO - Amid the rejection of most political parties, the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) issued five electoral laws, setting November 28 as the date for the parliamentary polls the first since Hosni Mubarak was ousted in February (...)
CAIRO - The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party has called on the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to issue a clear timeline for democratic transition in Egypt, declaring that staging protests is no longer the right way to (...)
CAIRO (Updated) - Egypt's state of emergency will remain in place until June 2012, a military official said Wednesday, stressing that the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) seeks to "end the emergency as soon as possible".
"The SCAF (...)
CAIRO - Egypt's state of emergency will be in place until June 30, 2012 and reports that the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) had to hold a referendum in order to extend them are 'baseless', a military official said Wednesday.
"The (...)
The United States will not only support Egypt's political reforms but it will also back the country in the drive to enhance its position in the global economy, US envoy in Cairo Anne Patterson said, stressing that a "democratic Egypt could be a (...)
CAIRO - Egypt's Interior Minister Wednesday gave his testimony in a closed session of the trial of former president Hosni Mubarak, charged with complicity in killing protesters in the revolution against his rule, as a defendant was ordered to stay (...)
CAIRO - Egyptian revolutionaries, political groups and Islamists have called on Egyptians to take to the streets next Friday in a new protest against a recent decision to activate the long-standing Emergency Law, accusing the ruling Supreme Council (...)
CAIRO - A Cairo administrative court on Saturday referred to the Supreme Constitutional Court, Egypt's highest judicial body entitled to review the Constitution's application, an article of the emergency law according to which civilians stand (...)