The Tanta Misdemeanour Court acquitted political activist Islam Khalil on Tuesday evening. He was most recently arrested on 21 October for writing "freedom for the detainees", and on charges of vandalising public and private property.
He was (...)
The Ministry of Housing dedicated on Wednesday 600 units for citizens in the Red Sea governorate who have lost their homes to the floods that engulfed Upper Egypt on Friday, state media reported.
The Minister of Housing announced that the social (...)
The Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), the official Russian aviation authority, said in a statement Monday that the crash of the Russian Metrojet aircraft in Egypt last year occurred due to an internal factor, according to the analysis and (...)
The Holding Company for Water and Wastewater released a statement on Tuesday, announcing that it has halted operations in 35 water stations in five governorates due to the high levels of turbidity which were caused by floods, local media reported. (...)
Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry received Christoph Heusgen, the foreign and security policy adviser of German chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday.
The minister stressed that Egypt is focused on supporting and strengthening its relations (...)
Major Fahmy Bahgat, the former manager of the Police Officers Club, was released on Sunday evening, after being presented before the prosecution for interrogation on Sunday morning.
"He was released because there was no evidence," the major's lawyer (...)
Working in parallel with the calls for 11 November protests, the undersecretary of the Ministry of Religious Endowments in Alexandria, Abdel Nasser Nessiem, decided to dedicate 19 missionary caravans to promote the importance of societal peace from (...)
Major Fahmy Bahgat, former manager of the Police Officers Club, was presented before prosecution on Sunday morning after being arrested from his home the previous night.
The prosecution accused Bahgat of bribing a public sector employee for (...)
East Cairo General Prosecution, chaired by counsellor Ibrahim Saleh, ordered for an autopsy of the body of the citizen who died in the explosion in Gesr El-Suez, Ain Shams on Friday, state media reported.
The other citizen hit by the explosion is (...)
The Ministry of Religious Endowments released last Monday the topic for the unified Friday sermon: the Islamic duty to protect your country.
"Protecting your country is not confined to holding weapons to face the enemies and foreign dangers; there (...)
The Arab League published a joint statement, on Tuesday, illustrating the main points covered in the tripartite meeting over the Libyan crisis, which was held on the same day in the general secretariat of the league's headquarters in Cairo.
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Passport authorities at Cairo International airport held back 19 young Egyptian men who were attempting to fly to Libya via Sharjah, United Arab Emirates on Tuesday in search of job opportunities, according to state-owned agency MENA.
Egypt has (...)
Chaired by Arab League secretary general Ahmed Abou El-Gheit, a tripartite meeting will be held in Cairo on Tuesday to discuss methods to advance the political resolution of the Libyan crisis, according to the Arab League's website.
The meeting also (...)
In response to the public outrage on social media over the absence of the cancer medication, Mercaptopurine, sold under the brand name Purinethol, authorities moved forward to supply the Sohag Cancer Institute with the much needed medication, while (...)
Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry published an article on the ministry's blog Monday titled "On United Nations Day: Reform is Essential".
He wrote: "In the wake of a shattering war and following months of incessant negotiations, Egypt along (...)
One of the TV crew members of Abla Fahita satire puppet show Khaled Abdel Latif was released Monday, after being arrested on protest charges, according to his lawyer Tarek Khater from the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI).
Abdel (...)
El-Tareeq news website journalist Mohamed Fawzy said Monday that police forces who raided their office on Sunday afternoon explained that the procedure was normal amid security measures in light of the calls to protest on 11 November.
"What happened (...)
The Cairo Criminal Court accepted the prosecution's appeal on Saturday against the release on bail of Al-Jama'a Al-Islamiyya leaders, Safwat Abdel Ghany and Alaa Abou Al-Nasr. Instead, the suspects will remain in custody for 45 days pending (...)
A shelter for poor patients, stray cats and dogs is what Demerdash Hospital really is. Luckily a group of high-spirited students and fresh grads rush in to resurrect hope.
An event hosted by the Egyptian Medical Students' Association (EMSA) on 8 (...)
Nada ElKholy, a journalist working at Al-Shorouk newspaper, was attacked Saturday night while covering a pro-Morsi march in Al-Zaitoon in Cairo.
ElKholy said her lip was bruised, her camera was broken and its memory card stolen by a group of (...)