Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said on Saturday that ousted President Mohamed Morsy will likely be transferred to Tora Prison, where former President Hosni Mubarak is currently imprisoned.
Morsy faces several charges including murder.
At a press (...)
The Tamarod movement has called on Egyptians to support the armed forces in its "war against terrorism," following a speech by military chief and defence minister, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
On Wednesday, Sisi called on Egyptians to take to the (...)
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), apparently pleased with the ouster of the former President Mohamed Morsy, have approved $8 billion in aid to Egypt on Tuesday.
The Saudi funds comprise a $2 billion central bank deposit, $2 billion in (...)
Defence Minister General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has declared Supreme Constitutional Court president Adly Mansour as interim president of Egypt as part of a transitional road map, practically eliminating President Mohamed Morsy from office.
The (...)
The main index of the Egyptian stock market fell by a whopping 2.30 percentage points on Monday, the biggest losses in a single day in over a month, after the prosecutor general issued a travel ban on the CEO of Orascom Construction Industries (...)
Pope Benedict stunned the Roman Catholic Church on Monday when he announced he would stand down in the first papal abdication since Pope Gregory XII resigned in 1415.
In a statement read to cardinals in Latin, the octogenarian pope said he no longer (...)
Israel and Hamas agreed on Wednesday to a ceasefire brokered by Egypt, Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr announced during a press conference with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Announcing the ceasefire in Cairo, Egyptian Foreign (...)
Three Egyptian policemen were killed and three others were wounded today in an attack by unidentified gunmen on a police patrol in Arish, North Sinai.
The attack is the largest of its kind targeting the Egyptian forces in Sinai since the Rafah (...)
Spanish political satire magazine El Jueves has published a cartoon of the Prophet Mohamed on its cover, soon after violent protests rocked the Muslim world over an anti-Islam film made in the US and French caricatures deemed offensive to Islam.
El (...)
Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Qandil said on Wednesday he hoped Egypt could reach a loan deal with the International Monetary Fund before the end of year or sooner.
"The objective (of the IMF visit) is to show support for the Egyptian economy and (...)
Authorities plan to open the Rafah border crossing in both directions Tuesday after a nine-day closure that followed a deadly attack on a military checkpoint that left 16 security officers dead, an official at the crossing told state news agency (...)
Parliament on Monday approved a law setting the rules governing the election of the Constituent Assembly, paving the way for a joint session Tuesday to elect the body.
The law consists of 12 articles that regulate all the work and functions of the (...)
A judicial body recommended on Wednesday that the law regulating parliamentary elections be overturned, raising the possibility that the legislature could be dissolved.
"The report of the commissioners of the Supreme Constitutional Court concluded (...)
Egypt's benchmark share index dropped 1.1 percent to a six-week low after an arson attack on the headquarters of one of the country's two presidential candidates fueled jitters that the political uncertainty of the last year may go on for many more (...)
Egypt has terminated a long-term deal to supply Israel with gas after the cross-border pipeline sustained months of sabotage since a revolt last year, a stakeholder in the deal said on Sunday.
Ampal-American Israel Corporation, a partner in the East (...)
As others have fallen by the wayside, Amr Moussa stepped up his campaign for the Egyptian presidency on Wednesday, going to a informal area of Cairo to launch his platform in a bid to win over voters, whose choices have been narrowed down in only a (...)
The main index in the Egyptian Stock Exchange lost 2 percent on Sunday after the death of Pope Shenouda III on Saturday, Al-Masry Al-Youm reported. Real estate stocks led the decline.
Reuters said that real estate stocks weighed on the stock market (...)
Egyptian stocks rallied on Wednesday after their biggest losing streak in months created fresh buying opportunities. The stock exchange had lost LE30 billion over the last four sessions due to the political tension between Parliament and the (...)
Egypt expects to sign a US$3.2 billion loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund next month and will receive one-third of the funds immediately upon signing, Finance Minister Momtaz al-Saeed was quoted on Sunday as saying.
The loan accord (...)
Egypt said on Wednesday it will not be swayed by aid to change course in a probe of foreign-funded pro-democracy groups and NGOs, a case that has strained ties with the US, a major aid donor to the country.
The government says the case is a judicial (...)
The Arab League's monitoring mission to Syria has been frozen given the escalation of violence in the country, the Arab League said in a statement on Saturday.
"It has been decided to immediately stop the work of the Arab League's mission to Syria (...)
Egypt has decided to lift the state of emergency except in certain cases, the head of Egypt's ruling military council said on Tuesday. The change is to become effective Wednesday.
"I have taken a decision to end the state of emergency," Field (...)
Optimism for the year ahead lifted Egypt's stock market on Monday and Egypt's benchmark index rose 1.6 percent as Egypt's central bank cancelled three-year and five-year bond auctions worth LE5 billion (US$829 million). The central bank gave no (...)
The death toll in clashes between army forces and protesters near Egypt's cabinet building reached 12 early Tuesday, the Health Ministry said.
The news agency Reuters, however, quoted ministry sources Tuesday as saying the death toll was 13, while (...)