Egypt's Meteorological Authority predicted another increase in temperatures across the country on Wednesday, accompanied by continued dusty wind and cooler temperatures at night.
The current heat wave is expected to end next Thursday evening, with (...)
The number of the victims of the building collapse in Cairo's Manshiyet Nasser rose to 12 on Sunday, the head of the district's municipal council Mohamed Abdel-Gelil told Ahram Online.
The building collapsed on Thursday in the densely-populated (...)
Three people were killed, including a child and an elderly woman, and 18 others were injured after two building collapsed in Cairo's Manshiyet Nasser area on Thursday evening, the operation room of Cairo governorate told Ahram Online on (...)
Egypt's presidential elections are less than two months away. With voting set to take place on 26, 27 and 28 March, presidential candidates are required to submit all necessary papers to Egypt's National Elections Authority (NEA) between 20 and 29th (...)
Egyptian journalist and researcher Ismail Alexandrani has been referred from high state security prosecution to military prosecution over charges of belonging to an illegal organization and spreading false news, his lawyer Mokhtar Mounir told Ahram (...)
The tribes of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula have asked to be allowed to fight against terrorism alongside the Egyptian army after the Friday terrorist attack on Al-Rawda Mosque in North Sinai that killed 305 worshippers and injured 128 during Friday (...)
An Alexandria court ordered on Saturday the detention of activist and human rights lawyer Mahinour El-Masry and rights lawyer Moatasem Medhat pending trial over illegal protesting against the Egyptian-Saudi maritime border demarcation deal in June. (...)
EgyptAir is to boost its fleet with the purchase of 33 new passenger jets, the airline's chairman Safwat Mosalam said in a press statement on Sunday.
The new purchases will include a range of aircraft suitable for short-, medium- and long-distance (...)
The Egyptian interior minister's assistant for water surfaces and the environment Nabil Ebada has issued a directive against hunting the American Golden Heron, which has been seen flying over the Nile recently, Al-Ahram Arabic news website (...)
Currently screened at Cairo's art house cinema Zawya, Experimental Summer (Seef Tagreebi) talks about Zeinab and Mahmoud's journey as they look for copies of the first independent film produced in Egypt in the 1980s.
In their fantasy journey into (...)
Egypt's presidential committee to pardon youth prisoners has started preparing a fourth list of prisoners to be pardoned, committee member Karim El-Sakka told to Ahram Online on Sunday.
The list is due to be delivered to the president for approval (...)
A judge lifted on Saturday the one-year-old preventative probationary measures on four members of the Egyptian satirical performance troupe Atfal El-Shawaree (Street Children), their lawyer Amr Mohamed told Ahram Online on Sunday.
The four (...)
Twenty-four Nubian activists are in detention in Aswan for illegal protesting after they were arrested on Sunday for participating in a march in Aswan city, where they held signs and played drums to call for a return to their ancestral lands, their (...)
Residents of Zamalek, Cairo's upscale island in the Nile, have been campaigning for the removal of entertainment boats anchored along the island's shores.
People living in Mohamed Abdel-Wahab Street, which overlooks the river, are hanging signs from (...)
The price of steel rebars in Egypt has increased rapidly over the past three months, with price instability causing concern within the construction sector, resulting in possible knock-on effects for both companies and consumers, say (...)
In November, Ahmed Zaki, an Egyptian journalist based in London, wrote a post on his Facebook account that went viral telling of how a private conversation with a friend resulted in him receiving online ads pertaining to his conversation.
According (...)
Like every week, 13-year-old Youssef Sameh El-Araby spent last Thursday with his school friends in Cairo's 6 October City in El-Ashgar neighbourhood. Before heading back home, he asked his friends to stop at a restaurant to eat.
As they stood in (...)
The former head of Egypt's Journalists Syndicate, Yehia Kalash, has appealed to the Court of Cassation against a one-year suspended prison sentence issued against him and Khaled El-Balshy, a former syndicate board member, and current syndicate board (...)
Palestinians are commemorating the 69th anniversary of the 1948 Nakba, when 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their lands and displaced, with activities in various areas in the Palestinian territories and abroad.
Marches took place earlier (...)
Some of the best pictures from the popular Everyday Egypt Instagram page are going on display this month at a new exhibition in Maadi.
The first exhibition organised by the social media project opened on Sunday, and will continue until 15 May, at (...)
Roman Catholic Pope Francis and Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros signed on Friday a mutual declaration that each of their respective churches will seek to acknowledge baptisms performed in the other church.
The declaration was signed shortly after Pope (...)
We found Kirollos and his wife Batoul standing by the door of the prayer hall where the bomb detonated. Batoul, 27, had blood all over the palm frond she was holding in celebration of Palm Sunday. She attends prayers at to this cathedral sometimes, (...)
Egypt's president Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi declared a state of emergency nationwide on Sunday after attacks by suspected suicide bombers on two different Egyptian churches killed dozens and injured scores, in the deadliest recent attack against the (...)
The Committee To Defend The Right To Healthcare (CDRH) launched on Saturday a campaign titled Towards Social, National and Just Health Insurance to oppose an insurance draft law recently approved recently by the cabinet.
In a press conference held (...)
Sudan will now require Egyptian men aged between 18 and 49 years old to apply for visas in order to enter the country, the country's ambassdor to Egypt, Abdel-Mahmoud Abdel-Halim, said on Friday.
The decision was issued on 3 April, the ambassador (...)