CAIRO: A day after a fire razed to the ground a busy market in Sayeda Aisha, families that worked and lived in the neighborhood braced themselves Wednesday for the government plan to evacuate them and clear the area.
The fire started when a car (...)
CAIRO: The heat wave that swept over Egypt last Saturday and saw temperatures rise to over 45C will subside on Tuesday night to end completely on Thursday, the Egyptian Meteorological Authority told Daily News Egypt.
Temperatures are expected to (...)
CAIRO: An Egyptian journalist was granted the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press for an article exposing several human rights violations in an Egyptian tobacco factory.
In her report titled “Tobacco Girls,” Safaa Saleh, a journalist for (...)
CAIRO: Safwat El-Sherif, Shoura Council speaker and secretary-general of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), lauded the relationship between Egypt and the Nile Basin countries in an interview with Al Arabiya channel on Tuesday.
“Aid and (...)
CAIRO: On Sunday, President Hosni Mubarak approved the resignation of Al-Azhar's Grand Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayeb from the National Democratic Party's influential policies committee.
In an unexpected move, El-Tayeb announced on March 26 that he will (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's Ministry of Civil Aviation halted all Saudi Airlines flights from Madina to Cairo in response to a decision by Saudi authorities to stop EgyptAir's flights to Madina, state media reported.
The General Authority of Civil Aviation in (...)
CAIRO: An appeals court reduced a prison sentence handed down to two ferry captains from Rosetta accused of negligence from one year to three months.
Ferry captains Tantawy Mohamed Abdel Hamid and Mansour Mohamed Mansour were also required to pay (...)
CAIRO: Agriculture Minister Amin Abaza reached an agreement with employees at the General Authority of Reconstruction Projects and Agricultural Development (GARPAD) as well as the Land Reclamation sector, who staged a protest in front of the (...)
CAIRO: Mahmoud Nazeem, Deputy Minister of Petroleum denied Monday rumors of an increase in the price of diesel fuel, that has led to over-crowding in filling stations.
Taxis, buses, and some private cars have, however, been complaining from (...)
CAIRO: Yemen appealed to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to call for international aid to fund the severely undeveloped areas and help the people who are affected by the conflict between the government and the Houthi (...)
CAIRO: Al-Balagh Al-Gadid editors Abdou El-Maghraby and Ehab El-Agamy apologized to actor Nour El-Sherif for defaming him in a report about an alleged homosexual prostitution ring.
Maghraby, the paper's editor-in-chief, apologized on Egyptian (...)
CAIRO: In a sudden move Monday, the Shoura Council (Egypt's Upper House of Parliament) announced the replacement of Deputy Head of the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) Ahmed Kamal Aboul Magd, by the former head of the Higher Judicial Council (...)
CAIRO: A 20-year-old blacksmith found guilty and sentenced to death for the murder of two university students in an upscale 6th of October City compound in November 2008, got another lease on life when the Court of Cassation overturned the death (...)
CAIRO: Police forces have amassed in North Sinai in great numbers the day after gunmen opened fire on a prisoners' transfer bus, killing two policemen.
The security forces have gathered at the North Sinai Security Bureau, though up until press (...)
CAIRO: Cairo University is reportedly recruiting security officers, raising speculation that it plans to replace state security forces on campus with a civil security unit in line with an Administrative Court verdict, according to Al-Shorouk (...)
CAIRO: A committee formed to support victims of the recent floods is sending an aid convoy to Aswan on Sunday Jan. 24.
The Public Committee to Support Flood Victims is collecting aid until Sunday including money, blankets and medical (...)
CAIRO: The government failed to deal with the Nagaa Hammadi shootings prior to and following the tragic incident, a report by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) said.
In addition to noting the political dimension of the violence, (...)
CAIRO: By next March, popular Channel 2 talk show "El-Beit Beitak will no longer be gracing Egyptian living-rooms, as producers have recently announced that the show's six-year run will come to an end.
"The program's contract ends in February and (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Supreme Administrative Court supported the prohibition of three university students wearing niqab - the full face veil - from attending exams.
On Sunday, the court refused an appeal by 55 students wearing the niqab against a (...)
CAIRO: Thousands of Egyptians flocked to the Virgin Mary Church in Zeitoun and Masarra on Tuesday night following the rumored appearance of an apparition of the Virgin Mary across the capital, a week after an alleged apparition was reported in (...)
CAIRO: Al-Azhar's Islamic Research Center refused to discuss a draft law to adopt Christian children because it wasn't proposed by a legislative party, Sheikh Ali Abdel Baki, secretary general of the Islamic Research Center, said.
The draft law (...)
CAIRO: A convoy of Egyptian lawyers, artists and public figures hoping to defuse the tension between Egypt and Algeria in the aftermath of the WC qualifier in Khartoum last month, is planning a reconciliation trip to Algeria.
Refusing the (...)
CAIRO: The April 6 Youth Movement filed a complaint Wednesday to the Prosecutor General and the Attorney General in Sharqeya governorate concerning the alleged kidnapping of three of the movement's members during a protest on Monday.
General (...)
CAIRO: The government has called in the Algerian ambassador Ambassador Abdelkader Hadjar yesterday and then recalled its own envoy Ambassador Abdul-Aziz Seif al-Nasr, from Algeria for consultations in protest against the attacks on Egyptians (...)
CAIRO: Angry and tired, many Egyptians who traveled to Sudan to watch the crucial World Cup qualifier between Egypt and Algeria claimed that the attacks they were subjected to were premeditated.
Eyewitnesses alleged to Daily News Egypt that the (...)