CAIRO: Egyptian newspapers angrily accused the ruling military on Friday of caving in to US pressure to allow foreign NGO workers, including a number of Americans, to escape trial on charges of illegal funding.
One of them also accused the (...)
CAIRO: Egyptians, who were glued to their television screens for the two first sessions of ousted president Hosni Mubarak's trial, have been divided by the judge's decision to remove the cameras.
The public trial of Mubarak, accused of corruption (...)
CAIRO: The dramatic images of ailing Hosni Mubarak in the defendants' cage has captivated the Arab world, where the murder trial of Egypt's former president has been hailed as a lesson for those clinging to power.
Footage of the ailing (...)
CAIRO: The Prosecutor General on Thursday mulled sending Hosni Mubarak to jail or to a prison hospital as reports emerged the ousted president's health is "unstable".
Egypt's public prosecutor Abdel Magid Mahmoud has ordered a medical team to (...)
CAIRO: A month after president Hosni Mubarak was forced to quit in the face of an unprecedented popular uprising, Egypt's new rulers are grappling with the political and economic aftermath as tensions still run high on the streets.
On February (...)
CAIRO: When her divorce finally came through after a painful four-year procedure, Mahasen Saber became the target of reproving looks and gossip in Egypt's conservative society.
But she fought back, and in a bid to counter the prejudice attached (...)
JOHANNESBURG: Threats of violence in Cairo have overshadowed the final round of 2010 World Cup qualifiers in Africa this weekend with three places in South Africa up for grabs.
Egypt host bitter rivals Algeria Saturday in the potentially (...)
CAIRO: Many relics from ancient Egypt remain in foreign museums and Cairo is struggling to persuade other countries to send them back, like France which agreed to return a set of 3,000-year-old wall painting fragments.
"It is the Egyptian (...)
CAIRO: Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas resumed reconciliation talks in Cairo on Wednesday aimed at agreeing a government of national unity acceptable to the international community.
The Egyptian-mediated talks between the Islamist (...)
CAIRO: New US peace envoy George Mitchell said on Wednesday it was critically important to consolidate the Gaza ceasefire, as Israel warned it would defend itself when Israeli a soldier was killed.
It is of critical importance that the ceasefire (...)
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: European and Arab leaders meeting in Egypt on Sunday ratcheted up calls for an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and announced plans for an international aid conference.
The leaders, as well as UN Secretary General Ban (...)
CAIRO: Egypt is to pass Hamas favorable response to a Gaza ceasefire plan to Israel, Egyptian officials said on Wednesday, as the death toll from Israel s war in the territory topped 1,000 Palestinians.
The announcement came a day before a senior (...)
DAMIETTA: In a dark and muddy alley in the Nile Delta town of Damietta, where Egypt s latest fatal bird flu victim Hanem Atwa Ibrahim lived, inhabitants fear the authorities more than the virus.
It was the will of God that she died. The chickens (...)
CAIRO: From Kazakhstan to Brazil, Italy and Indonesia, lovers of oriental dance flock to Egypt to pay homage to the cradle of this ancient art.
In a luxury hotel at the foot of the pyramids, some 80 professional dancers from around the world (...)
BAYAD AL-ARAB: Twice circumcised, Wafaa Helmy swore her own daughters would never suffer the same fate.
But one night her own mother secretly took her first-born to go under the knife in their Upper Egypt village.
Despite pronouncements to the (...)