CAIRO: Egyptian Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri today held a meeting to discuss the possibility of including victims of Maspero and Mohamed Mahmoud clashes in the category of January 25 Revolution martyrs.
The Egyptian Ministers of Interior, (...)
CAIRO: An American delegation has visited Egypt to meet with Head of the Supreme Electoral Committee Abdel Moez Ibrahim to discuss judicial cooperation and the first phase of the parliamentary elections.
Judicial sources said the American (...)
Youm7 celebrates receiving the Forbes Award at the Press Syndicate celebrated on Monday December 12. Youm7 received the Forbes Award for the second consecutive year, the prize for being the best Arabic electronic newspaper.
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The Israeli Ministry of Tourism announced it will receive more 90,000 tourists to celebrate Christmas in the cities of Bethlehem and Nazareth to visit all the holy locations in Jerusalem.
Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv reported the Israeli Ministry of (...)
Egypt press reported Egyptian SSI arresting 26 people behind the current gas cylinder crisis. Egyptian debt reached U.S. $125.4 billion and that 400 NGOs are funded by outside parties.
The Egyptian Ministry of Interior is studying the voting of (...)
CAIRO: The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) will hold a regional conference in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, from December 12 to 15. The conference is entitled "Developing Women's Education."
The conference is (...)
Egyptian space scientist and vice president of the Arab union for space and astrology studies professor Muslim Shaltout said Israel and the U.S. oppose Egyptian attempts to build rockets that launch satellites into the outer space. Israel sees in (...)
Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Akmal al-Deen Ihsan Oghloo said the OIC is committed to developing cultural diversity in cooperation with the international society.
Oghloo said the organization made a historical (...)
Youth groups decided to present a more tolerant image of Islam to reduce the Islam-phobia among tourists who visit Egypt, especially after the Islamic political powers' success during the first phase of the Egyptian parliamentary elections.
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Egyptian media outlets yesterday reported that the Egyptian Ministry of the Interior intends to cleanse the department of thugs and criminals. In addition, newspapers wrote of a suit to suspend the Supreme Electoral Committee's call to refer those (...)
CAIRO: Arab and Egyptian purchasing buoyed the Egyptian indexes in Sunday's morning session despite some foreign investor sales.
The main EGX30 index rose 1.4 percent, the EGX20 gained 1.2 percent, the small- and medium-sized company EGX70 index (...)
The Civil Advisory Council met for the first time since its establishment by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces Sunday at the Center for Leadership Development to choose the council's president.
Six of the council's thirty members were (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri and new Minister of the Interior Mohamed Ibrahim today held a meeting with 1,000 police officers in the conference hall of the Police Academy.
The meeting was to cover the current security (...)
AMMAN, Jordan: The continual disruption in Egyptian natural gas flow to Jordan is reducing the electricity production in Amman, said Amin al-Zoughl, the director of the production planning department in the Jordanian Electricity (...)
CAIRO: Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces (SCAF) Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi and SCAF Chief of Staff Sami Anan today met with Nobel Prize Laureate Ahmed Zewail, who won the prize for his work in chemistry.
The three (...)
CAIRO: An Israeli military official arrived at Cairo International Airport by private plane from Tel Aviv on Sunday. The official will hold discussions with Egyptian officials regarding the second part of the prisoner swap between Egypt and (...)
CAIRO: The misdemeanor court in North Cairo headed by Judge Mohamed al-Sayed today decided to dismiss the appeal presented by defendant Peter Azmi. He earlier was detained for 15 days pending questioning into the charges of insulting the military (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian eyewitnesses today said that Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces (SCAF) Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi today visited Tahrir Square in a military vehicle.
Witnesses reported that Tantawi was not shaking (...)
A verdict issued by the administrative court ruled that Alaa Abdel Fattah is eligible to vote in the parliamentary elections.
Abdel Fattah, a prominent blogger and activist, was found eligible to vote despite remaining in custody. The verdict (...)
The Salafi al-Nour Party affirmed that it would not withdraw any of its candidates from the second phase of the parliamentary elections scheduled to begin Dec. 14.
The party said that it aims to take the majority of the seats to ensure that the (...)
GIZA, Egypt: Omraniya youth coalition organized a popular conference yesterday to hold a debate between eight parliamentary candidates in Giza's second electoral district, which includes Omraniya.
The debate was attended by many neighborhood (...)
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Adel Basel, a member of the Free Egyptians party, said that the party supports Article 2 of the Constitution, as it seeks a constitution that deals with the nature of the Egyptian people.
Basel said that this situation is not a (...)
The supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamene, urged the Iranians to buy all Syrian products in support of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, according to sources.
Sources said that such a demand made by the highest religious authority in Iran (...)
ARISH, Egypt: There are a total of 30 witnesses in the court cast against the radical Islamic group Takfir wal Hijra in North Sinai, according to security sources.
Fourteen members of the group, which is believe to have possible ties to al-Qaeda, (...)
Egyptian economic expert Mohamed Youssif expects that the inflation rate in Egypt would increase because of the elections and slowed production due to the recent clashes in Tahrir Square.
The latest incidents affected all sectors of the market, (...)