Two children died and five people were injured when a building collapsed in the Minya Al-Qamh district of the Sharqeya governorate late Monday, the Ministry of Health annouced.
One of the two children was eight years old and the other was 17. Those (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met Monday with Minister of Defence Sedki Sobhi, Minister of Water Resources Hossam El-Moghazy and head of the General Intelligence Khaled Fawzy.
Presidential spokesperson Alaa Youssef said the meeting included (...)
The Giza Criminal Court sentenced Monday police officer Ibrahim Mahgoub to seven years in prison, and five lower ranking officers to five years, on charges of beating a man to death and fabricating a drug possession charge in 2011.
Prosecutors said (...)
Security services in Giza, in coordination with the National Security apparatus and special operations, arrested prominent Muslim Brotherhood member Abd El-Aal Al-Ashry.
Al-Ashry is the brother of Gamal Al-Ashry, former member of parliament for the (...)
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with the leader of the German parliament (Bundestag) majority, Volker Kauder, on Tuesday where they discussed ways of reinforcing bilateral relations between Egypt and Germany.
Foreign Ministry (...)
Armed assailants affiliated with the "Islamic State" (IS) attacked a compound owned by a cleaning company called Care Service in Al-Arish, North Sinai early Sunday, local media reported.
They set the compound on fire; however no injuries were (...)
In response to Ethiopia's announcement that it will not add more sluices to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Egyptian Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Hossam El-Moghazy said Egypt will prepare a new technical study on the (...)
The medical services sector, in coordination with the prison services sector at the Ministry of Interior and a number of security directorates, sent medical convoys to public prisons and police stations to provide medical services to prisoners, (...)
Egypt's Minister of Religious Endowments Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa condemned, on Friday, calls to protests in advance of the fifth anniversary of the 25 January Revolution.
Gomaa described the planned protests as "suspicious and crimes […] against the (...)
Egyptian president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi attended the ceremony of Egyptian Youth Day and the launch of the Knowledge Bank website at the Cairo Opera House, Saturday morning.
Prime Minister Sherif Ismail, Minister of Youth and Sports Khaled (...)
The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced the need for vaccination against pneumococcal bacteria, which causes pneumonia. Global statistics reported the occurrence of an estimated two to three million deaths each year of all ages, doctors (...)
Brittany Murphy
According to British Daily Mail newspaper, a leading pathologist Richard Shepherd stated that Hollywood actress Brittany Murphy would still be alive if her mother had called for an ambulance 24 hours before she collapsed.
Murphy was (...)
Advice
According to the American Lung Association, pneumonia can be prevented through following simple steps:
Vaccination: A flu shot every year to prevent seasonal influenza, a common cause of pneumonia, is an effective way of prevention. Children (...)
A high-profile delegation is attending a two-day technical meeting held in Addis Ababa on Wednesday to discuss Egyptian concerns with the Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD). The Egyptian delegation will discuss proposals on Wednesday and (...)
Investigating judge Fathy Bayomi decided to refer editor-in-chief of state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram Hisham Younis and its journalist Ahmed Amer to the Cairo Criminal Court Wednesday on charges of libel and slander of Minister of Justice Ahmed (...)
The administrative judiciary announced the date of the verdict on the appeal of students of the German University in Cairo (GUC) to 10 January.
Three students from GUC were detained in May after the university's administration filed complaints on 8 (...)
State media said that a Cairo misdemeanour court acquitted novelist and journalist Ahmed Nagy on Saturday of charges of publishing and writing an article with "obscene sexual content".
Nagy's case was controversial and sparked outcry from human (...)
A medical source at a hospital in the Red Sea governorate has told local media that a woman infected with bird flu has died at the Hurghada General Hospital Tuesday. The source stated there were currently six other cases of bird flu in (...)
Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ahmed Abu Zeid said that Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with the chief Palestinian Commissioners and Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation Saeb Erekat, the ministry (...)
Watchdog group Journalists against Torture Observatory in Egypt released a report stating that there were 60 cases of violations against journalists in December 2015. The report said 31 cases were recorded during the first week of December, five (...)
The Islamophobia Observatory of Dar El-Eftaa condemns the Chinese authorities' decision of preventing the "Azan" (the call to prayers for Muslims, usually via microphones in mosques) and preventing children from entering mosques in Xinjiang Chinese (...)
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met with Chairman of the Special Council of the Economic Development of the Presidency Abla Abd El-Latif and a council member Mohsen Helmy.
Presidential spokesman Alaa Youssef said that during the meeting that (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met with Gregorios III Laham patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church Monday in occasion of Coptic Christmas on 7 January.
Spokesperson of the Egyptian presidency Alaa Youssef said that Gregorios III sent Pope (...)
The eleventh meeting of the tripartite committee on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is currently taking place in Khartoum with the attendance of the Irrigation and Foreign ministers of Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia.
The aim of the meeting is (...)
The eleventh meeting of the tripartite committee on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) began Sunday in Khartoum with the participation of the Irrigation and Foreign ministers of Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia.
Sudanese Minister of Water (...)