Hundreds of bazaar owners in Sharm el-Sheikh have blocked the road leading to Na'ama Bay and the airport in protest against a perceived security vacuum in the city, where a French tourist was killed and a German tourist and two Egyptians were (...)
Military authorities are to interrogate the officer accused by Bedouins of shooting dead two Bedouin men on Wednesday, according to a military source.
Egypt's state-run media reported on Wednesday that the men were killed by an Egyptian army officer (...)
Sharm el-Sheikh residents, many of whom make their livelihood in the tourism industry, want their former president - and the security measures that come with him - out of their city.
Hundreds marched after Friday prayers from the Mostafa Mosque to (...)
Egyptian police have restored traffic flow to the road linking Tor with Sharm el-Sheikh in the South Sinai Governorate after Bedouin gunmen blocked it on Saturday, a security source announced.
Security forces arrested the gunmen, who were later (...)
Judicial sources said on Tuesday that the newly formed medical committee to determine the health of deposed President Hosni Mubarak examined him at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Hospital on Monday and sent its report to the attorney general.
The (...)
Sharm el-Sheikh - An official source at the medical crew overseeing the health of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said his health has become stable.
Mubarak entered the Sharm el-Sheikh International Hospital in early April when his health (...)
Health Ministry Undersecretary Hisham Shiha said certain princes from the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia offered to pay the hospital bill of deposed President Hosni Mubarak, when they heard the Egyptian government would not meet the costs of (...)
Bedouins surrounded the South Sinai Criminal Court and fired bullets in the air in order to pressure the court to release a relative named Youssef Hussein Atwa, whom the court has sentenced to seven years in prison.
A security source said that three (...)
Sources at Sharm el-Sheikh International Hospital say the administration has been instructed not to release deposed President Hosni Mubarak, who is being held there for a period of 15 days pending investigation.
Mubarak is being held at the (...)
Minister of Tourism Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour has warned investors in land intended for tourism-related purposes that their land will be confiscated if they do not appear to be taking their responsibilities seriously.
“Land will be withdrawn from (...)
Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie on Tuesday inaugurated the group's first branch in the Upper Egyptian city of Assiut.
Badie, who was welcomed by group members upon his arrival at the Assiut Railway Station, spoke of the group's role (...)
The guards of ousted President Hosni Mubarak have refused to acknowledge receipt of the first summons served on him.
Mubarak is facing a lawsuit in his former capacity as president of the National Democratic Party (NDP). He is accused of corrupting (...)
South Sinai governor, Abdel Fadeel Shousha, issued a decision banning all forms of recreational fishing at Aqaba bay for both locals and tourists.
The area targeted by the new measure extends from the southern area of Ras Mohamed Governorate in (...)
A private Jordanian yacht sank off the coast of Al-Tor in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday after striking a coral reef in a restricted area.
The boat's hull was badly damaged by the corals, causing it to sink in less than five minutes.
The (...)
An Egyptian security source on Tuesday said authorities were combing the Sinai Peninsula after claims by Jordan that it had "proof" that the rocket that struck the port city of Aqaba on Monday--killing one person and wounding five others--was (...)
Investment Minister Mahmoud Mohie Eddin has announced the completion of a technical study examining the possible construction of a tunnel connecting the cities of Suez, Ismailia and Port Said to the Sinai Peninsula. The findings of the study, (...)
Sharm el-Sheikh--Water affairs ministers from the Nile Basin countries have discussed the establishment of a high commission at a two-day meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh which began Tuesday. The commission would aim to improve cooperation around water, (...)