Members of the Free Front for Peaceful Change members were insulted while hanging their posters and banners for their campaign against former members of the dissolved National Democratic Party (NDP), who are running for the current parliamentary (...)
The Egyptian Democratic Alliance is scheduled to begin negotiating with Al-Wafd Party about the party re-joining the alliance, said the general coordinator of Democratic Alliance, Wahed Abdul Majeed.
Abdul Majeed said the alliance decided Al-Wafd (...)
CAIRO: The Austrian Cultural Center and Archaeological Institute will present a seminar about ancient Egyptian housing architecture on today December 12 at 6:00 P.M.
Austrian ambassador in Cairo Tomas Nader will give a speech about the (...)
CAIRO: Assistant Secretary of the Advisory Council Sherif Zahran said a number of Muslim Brotherhood and revolution youth have asked to be represented in the Advisory Council.
Zahran said 80 percent of the council's members voted for Mansour (...)
CAIRO: The number of tourists visiting Egypt is a miracle, especially considering recent events and the insecurity in Egypt, according to Egyptian Minister of Tourism Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour.
Abdel Nour said he predicts Islamists will sweep the (...)
CAIRO: U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson confirmed the U.S. is keen on cooperating with the Egyptian government and people on more common benefits projects.
Patterson made these comments at the signing of a cooperation memorandum between (...)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the allocation of 630 million Shekels (approx. U.S. $170 million) for constructing a huge detention center on the borders with Egypt.
The center will be established to detain African intruders (...)
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt: Egyptian Minister of Tourism Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour and governor of South Sinai, Khaled Fouda, received 1,800 tourists at Sharm el-Sheikh Port.
The tourists arrived in Egypt on board of Costa Voyager Ship, which was on a (...)
Nadia Zachary, Minister of State for Scientific Research, said that funding is one of the greatest problems facing scientific research in Egypt.
Zachary also said that scientific research funding accounted for 0.6 percent of the public budget, (...)
Head of the Global Writer Naguib Mahfouz Award, Samira Mehrez, announced she will present the award this year to Egyptian People literature creation during the Egyptian January 25 Revolution.
She also announced to carve a memorial on the American (...)
WASHINGTON: Egypt's ambassador to U.S. Sameh Shoukry visited Pope Shenouda III, Pope of Alexandria and head of the Coptic Church, who is spending his trip in Ohio for medical treatment.
Shoukry also said the chairman of Egypt's ruling military (...)
The Egyptian Stock market posted mixed results during the morning transactions on Monday December 12.
Egypt's principal stock index EGX30 declined by 0.32 percent; EGX20 declined as well by 29 percent, while small and medium company index EGX70 (...)
CAIRO: The Supreme Egyptian Administrative Court today decided to invalidate the Supreme Electoral Committee decision to exclude political parties whose candidates do not meet a predetermined criteria for running in elections.
Magdy al-Agaty, the (...)
Abdel Moez Ibrahim, the head of the Supreme Electoral Committee (SEC), urged voters to practice their constitutional and legal right and vote in the second phase of parliamentary elections.
Ibrahim also warned against holding any electoral (...)
ARISH, Egypt: Hundreds of residents of Arish, the capital of North Sinai Governorate, blocked the international road in Sinai to protest the lack of security.
Meanwhile, traffic flow returned to other streets after protesters had blocked (...)
SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt: Sharm el-Sheikh Airport received 80 flights carrying 8,000 tourists to Egypt from Germany, Scandinavia, Russia, and Ukraine, a figure down on previous years.
Gahd el-Karim Naser, head of the airport, said although flights (...)
Sources at the Egyptian Ministry of Planning said the military police were called Sunday to the ministry headquarters to confront a protest in front of the ministry.
A kiosk owner who insulted Egyptian prime minister was at the front of the (...)
Egyptian Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri could not hold back tears during a press conference Sunday after seeing an Egyptian citizen on satellite television asking the government to grant security for his children before providing a loaf of (...)
KAFR EL-SHEIKH, Egypt: The Libyan Coast Guard in Tripoli today detained an Egyptian fishing boat carrying 17 fishermen, reported Ahmed Abdouh Nassar, the head of the Fisherman Care Association in Borg Megazal.
The Coast Guard accuses the (...)
OSLO: Amr Moussa, former Secretary-General of the Arab League and presidential hopeful, completely denied that he supported the formation of the civil advisory council.
Moussa rejected the advisory council because it would consist of two or three (...)
Egyptian Protesters before the Egyptian cabinet's headquarter clashed Saturday after a number of protestors tried to end a sit-in and convince people to leave.
Saturday is day 15 of the sit-in.
At the same time, protesters from Tahrir Square (...)
Clashes erupted between vendors in Tahrir Square, with some wielding knives injuring many and sending some to the hospital.
Some vendors hid inside Omar Makram Mosque while others insisted on breaking into the mosque to expel them.
In related (...)
Abdel Moez Ibrahim, head of the Supreme Electoral Committee, said the committee ended all preparation and arrangements for the second phase of the People's Assembly elections.
The second phase of elections will start Wednesday and Thursday in the (...)
Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri announced that the first meeting of the newly appointed Egyptian cabinet would be in the coming days, but did not mention the location of the meeting.
Ganzouri said he discussed the future of the Egyptian-US (...)
The Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) decided unanimously during its meeting in Warsaw to accept Egypt as a member of the organization.
Egypt received membership along with other ten countries in southern Europe and countries (...)