CAIRO: Egypt's most powerful political group, the Muslim Brotherhood, announced Saturday it is nominating the head of its party as a back-up candidate for president in the face of attempts to disqualify their primary nominee.
The decision to put (...)
BENGHAZI: Libyan tribesmen have closed the country's main border crossing with Egypt, complaining of a rise in crime and rampant smuggling of drugs and weapons across the frontier, residents and officials said.
Although most of the Libyan (...)
CAIRO: An International Monetary Fund team was due to leave Cairo Wednesday without securing an agreement over a $3.2 billion loan to help boost the nation's battered economy.
Holding up the deal was political wrangling between the (...)
CAIRO: Nabil Girgis, a Coptic Christian, lived for nearly two decades in the Egyptian town of Amreya, raising his children and managing a modest business. Those ties couldn't protect him after a sex video purportedly showing his brother with a (...)
SANAA: It was a stunning attack by Al-Qaeda in a country that is one of the world's hottest fronts against the terror group. Insurgents rampaged through an army camp in southern Yemen before dawn, catching soldiers asleep and killing more than 180. (...)
CAIRO: It has all the trappings of an Egyptian taxi. The radio is usually tuned to the legendary singer Umm Kulthoum, whose robust voice is a favorite among cabbies. On the dashboard is a pack of Marlboro cigarettes. But startlingly, so are a stick (...)
CAIRO: Security officials in Cairo say an American woman facing criminal charges as part of Egypt's crackdown on foreign-funded pro-democracy organizations has been barred from boarding an international flight.
Officials say that Mary Elizabeth (...)
CAIRO: The United Nations says one of its freelance consultants was fatally shot in the head while driving through an upscale Cairo neighborhood.
An Egyptian security official says the woman was not targeted, but died in a random daytime shooting (...)
CAIRO: Their kidnappers gave them tea and dried fruit, and talked about religion and tribal rights. The California women were allowed to bring their Egyptian tour guide with them. One even put out his cigarette in the car when a hostage said the (...)
CAIRO: A lawyer for Egypt's former interior minister asked the court on Saturday to have Nobel Peace Prize laureate and pro-reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei testify as a witness in his client's defense.
Mohamed El-Gendi, an attorney for Habib (...)
CAIRO: The conflict between Egypt's ruling military and pro-democracy protesters isn't just on the streets of Cairo, it's on the walls as well, as graffiti artists from each side duel it out with spray paint and stencils.
Earlier this month, (...)
CAIRO: Just over a year ago, Amira Maurice was attending a New Year's Eve Mass in the Saints Church in Egypt's Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria with her parents and fiance, their marriage set for only a few months away. Then the bomb blast (...)
CAIRO: An Egyptian airport official says the government has deported 93 Ethiopians who entered Egypt with hopes of crossing the Sinai desert into Israel illegally.
The airport official says 42 Ethiopians were repatriated on Sunday and another 51 (...)
CAIRO: Volunteers in white lab coats, surgical gloves and masks were standing on the back of a pickup truck along the banks of the Nile River in Cairo, rummaging through stacks of rare 200-year-old manuscripts that were little more than charcoal (...)
CAIRO: Islamists and liberals traded accusations of abuses during the second round of Egypt's first post-Mubarak parliamentary elections as voters cast ballots Thursday in mostly rural parts of the country.
Most of the reports accused election (...)
CAIRO: A senior Arab League official condemned on Sunday a statement by Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich claiming Palestinians are an "invented" people, calling it racist and a cheap stunt to get votes.
However Israeli Cabinet (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, emerging as the biggest winner in the first round of parliamentary elections, is seeking to reassure Egyptians that it will not sacrifice personal freedoms in promoting Islamic law.
The deputy head of the (...)
ASSIUT: In conservative Egyptian villages where tribal and familial affiliations reign supreme, parliamentary candidates can no longer rely on the former ruling party's blessing to carry them to victory.
In the agricultural heartland of Assiut, a (...)
ASSIUT, Egypt — Ahead of elections, Egypt's Coptic Church discreetly told followers to vote for an alliance of leftist and liberal parties sponsored by a Christian tycoon. The move by a Church normally wary of inserting itself into politics showed (...)
CAIRO — Gulf countries seeking to suspend Syria's membership to the Arab League over its bloody crackdown on protesters failed to gain enough support to push the measure through, reflecting deep divisions among the body's 22 nations.
Arab foreign (...)
CAIRO: Around 100 Islamists protested Sunday near the US Embassy in Cairo against the detention of Egyptian-born Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, serving a life sentence in the US for a plot to blow up New York City landmarks.
Known as the "Blind (...)
CAIRO: An Egyptian Interior Ministry official says the ministry is changing a rule that had kept most Sinai Bedouins from joining the police force.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to (...)
CAIRO: A security official says a 35-year-old Egyptian engineer doused himself with gasoline and tried to set himself ablaze in front of the Egyptian Cabinet's Cairo headquarters to back a demand for greater rights for the nation's disabled.
The (...)
CAIRO (AP) — Tucked away in an alley in one of Cairo's oldest quarters, Nasser Mustafa painstakingly welds small metal pieces that will come together to form a traditional lantern.
Egyptians turn to the lantern, known as a fanoos, as part of the (...)
CAIRO — Amnesty International said Saudi authorities on Monday blocked the group's website inside the kingdom following criticism of a controversial new anti-terrorism draft law.
The London-based group said the bill, which was reviewed by a Saudi (...)