Hundreds of Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square Friday in preparation for a demonstration they have dubbed "One Demand." Protesters are demanding Egypt's military rulers hand over power to civilians by April 2012 at the latest.
Protesters staged a (...)
Hundreds of protesters staged a "national unity" march from Al-Azhar Mosque to the Orthodox Cathedral in Abbasseya after Friday prayers. Another march coming from Tahrir Square joined the protesters in front of the cathedral.
The demonstrators (...)
The Central Security Forces amassed in Tahrir Square on Saturday after forcibly breaking a sit-in staged by dozens of activists in Tahrir square following the "Friday of Reclaiming the Revolution" rally to demand the abolition of the Emergency Law, (...)
Thousands of Egyptians filled Tahrir Square on Friday morning to protest the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces' (SCAF) recent changes to the law regulating parliamentary elections and demand the council transfer power to a civilian authority. The (...)
Hundreds of Salafis staged a march after Friday prayers from the Omar Makram mosque to the Interior Ministry, in response to a call to protest from the Coalition of Support for New Muslims.
Protesters demanded the release of Sheikh Mohamed Fadel, (...)
About 15,000 teachers protested on Saturday morning outside the cabinet building to demand higher wages and benefits, and the dismissal of the education minister.
Protesters said they intended to stage a general strike on the first day of the (...)
Informed sources told Al-Mary Al-Youm on Saturday that a high-ranking military official visited the Israeli Embassy on Thursday evening and asked its staff not to re-raise the Israeli flag at the embassy.
Last Saturday evening, a young protester (...)
The cabinet recently circulated a confidential letter to ministries and government bodies instructing senior officials not to make statements to the press without official permission from their respective ministers.
The order, which government (...)
Low-ranking police officers staged protests in Cairo and other cities on Wednesday, demanding that their superiors be brought to trial for ordering the killing of demonstrators during the revolution.
The only verdict handed down so far was issued in (...)
The Atomic Energy Authority has admitted to a leak of radioactive water from nuclear reactor number one at the Anshas nuclear complex outside Cairo, but reassured the residents of the area that there was “zero” risk resulting from the incident, as (...)
The Anshas nuclear reactor, located on the outskirts of Cairo, has leaked ten cubic meters of radioactive water for the second time in a year, according to Samer Mekheimar, the former director of the Nuclear Research Center's atomic reactions (...)
About 50 Egyptian experts representing eight ministries and a number of foreign donors are developing the first national plan for energy conservation.
The government has neglected the field of energy conservation over recent decades, according to (...)
The National Bank of Egypt has offered a loan of LE4.6 billion to help finance an emergency plan by the Ministry of Electricity and Energy which aims to offset rising electricity demand by summer.
The investment cost for the plan stands at LE6.2 (...)
The regime has lost its constitutional legitimacy since the 25 January protests, said Zakaria Abdel Aziz, former head of the Egyptian Judge's Club, during a visit to protesters in Tahrir Square on Saturday.
He added that, if 20 Egyptian army (...)
Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Energy Hassan Younes on Sunday announced a ministry plan to produce 2600 megawatts of wind energy this year in collaboration with several EU states and Japan.
He noted that the ministry had already raised funds (...)
Electricity and Energy Minister Hassan Younis on Monday said the tender for Egypt's first light water nuclear reactor to generate electricity would be announced this month, once the State Council has reviewed it.
He said bidders would submit offers (...)
Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Mohamed Rachid said Russia offered Egypt three options for financing construction of its nuclear power plant, including “the establishment of the nuclear power plant on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) system, the (...)
Head of the High Elections Commission's operation room Ahmed Shawqi told Al-Masry Al-Youm that voter turnout for the runoff elections in most districts is “too low.”
Shawqi blamed the low turnout largely on the decision by the Wafd Party and the (...)
President of the government-run High Elections Commission al-Sayed Abdel Aziz Omar declared this week that the withdrawal of opposition parties from parliamentary runoffs--slated for Sunday--was illegal.
“The withdrawal deadline ended before the (...)
Egyptian judges excluded from the High Elections Commission (HEC) have begun collecting signatures for an official complaint that they intend to submit to the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC).
They claim that the HEC failed to consider judges' (...)
Egypt on Sunday denied that the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had discovered traces of enriched uranium at an Egyptian nuclear facility.
Egypt's Atomic Energy Authority noted that protocols signed between Egypt and the IAEA (...)
Disgruntled employees of state-run information centers clashed with security forces on Wednesday outside Egyptian Lawyers Syndicate headquarters in downtown Cairo.
Employees had been staging a protest to demand salary increases. Security forces (...)
A number of international experts attending the 14th Arab International Aluminium Conference, currently in progress in Luxor, warned that Egypt's aluminum industry is facing severe Arab and international competition.
The experts advocated that Egypt (...)
Petroleum Minister Sameh Fahmy met with Electricity Minister Hassan Younis on Monday to inform the latter that his ministry had agreed to provide the Electricity Ministry with additional gas supplies with a view toward achieving Younis' strategic (...)
A spare parts dealer injured five people on Monday when he opened fire with a pistol at men trying to storm his shop on Ramses Street in downtown Cairo.
The men, who had previously clashed with the dealer, were reportedly accompanied by hired (...)