أفادت وسائل إعلام هندية بأن سلطات بلادها أعدّمت أحد المخططين لاعتداءات 1993 شنقًا في الصباح الباكر يعقوب مأمون، وهو الوحيد الذي نفذ فيه حكم الإعدام من بين 11 متورطاً في هذه الاعتداءات والمحكومين عليهم بالعقوبة نفسها، بعد أن خفف حكم الإعدام بحقهم إلى (...)
The second phase of Egypt's People's Assembly elections kicked off on Wednesday with more than 3000 candidates competing for 180 seats.
Nineteen million eligible voters are expected to cast their ballots in nine provinces including Giza, Monufiya, (...)
The second phase of Egypt's People's Assembly elections kicked off on Wednesday with more than 3000 candidates competing for 180 seats.
Nineteen million eligible voters are expected to cast their ballots in nine provinces including Giza, Monufiya, (...)
Emad Abdel Ghafour, the chairman of the Salafi Nour Party, said that his party may form a parliamentary coalition with the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party.
The two parties led the polls in the first phase of parliamentary elections. (...)
Recently appointed Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri is to officially announce the names of his new cabinet on Tuesday, a cabinet source has told Al-Masry Al-Youm.
According to the source, who asked not to be identified because he is not authorized (...)
A fact-finding committee has not yet reached its conclusions concerning whether certain civil society organizations have received foreign funding illegally, a judicial source has said on Monday
Judge Ibrahim Abdel Khalek, Ministry of Justice (...)
Yasser al-Hambouly, who police describe as being one of the most dangerous outlaws in Egypt, was shot and wounded in a security crackdown on Monday.
Luxor's Security Directorate said a police force had surrounded the sugar cane field in which (...)
The high elections committee on Sunday released a comprehensive tally of votes in Egypt's recent parliamentary poll, the first phase of which was held on Monday and Tuesday.
The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) led the polls. It (...)
Newly-appointed Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri began consultations on Saturday at the National Planning Institute in order to form a new government, reported state news agency MENA.
MENA's source said that Ganzouri received several young activists (...)
Presidential hopeful Mohamed ElBaradei issued a statement Saturday night declaring his willingness to head a national salvation government if he was asked officially to do so and was given full powers. He added that he would give up his bid for (...)
Thousands of protesters flocked to Tahrir Square Monday night as fighting continued on Mohamed Mahmoud, where battle lines separated security forces from protesters. Mohamed Mahmoud is a street leading to the square.
The police fired tear gas at the (...)
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) issued a statement Wednesday night urging calm. It called for discussions with political forces and a fact-finding commission to investigate the violence.
The generals urged the people and all political (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party issued a statement on Monday announcing that it will not participate "in any sit-in or protest that may lead to more confrontations and congestion," the party wrote in a statement it issued to (...)
Tehran-Cairo cooperation should expand due to better relations, Iran's IAEA envoy Ali-Asghar Soltanieh said on Saturday.
Speaking from Vienna to Egyptian TV, Soltanieh said that he hopes ties between the two countries will improve.
Ties between the (...)
Light clashes erupted between protesters and police in Tahrir Square after riot police cleared the square of tents set out overnight after Friday's massive protests in the square.
According to eyewitnesses, Central Security Forces arrested some of (...)
In a blatant challenge to Egypt's military rulers, the Journalists Syndicate has urged its members to reject summons by military prosecutors in press-related cases.
The syndicate released a statement Tuesday calling on journalists to defend their (...)
Egypt's ruling military council has ordered the closure of the MOPCO (Misr Oil Processing Co) plant in Damietta after a man was killed and more than a dozen injured in violent clashes between the army and protesters demanding the plant's closure, (...)
Many of Israel's official websites have gone down in what the government says is a broad technical malfunction.
The sites include that of the Mossad and Shin Bet intelligence services, the military spokesman, the Interior Ministry and others.
In (...)
Laila Soueif, university professor and mother of activist Alaa Abd El Fattah, decided to go on a hunger strike starting Sunday to protest her son's detention.
Abd El Fattah has been accused of inciting violence on 9 October when the military (...)
Israeli authorities on Saturday began deporting pro-Palestinian activists who tried to breach the Jewish state's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. Al-Masry Al-Youm Managing Editor Lina Attalah, who was breifly detained after her boat "Tahrir" was (...)
Farid al-Deeb, lawyer of former president Hosni Mubarak, has admitted that Mubarak's sons, Alaa and Gamal, have assets worth US$340 million in Switzerland.
In an interview with Foreign Policy magazine on Thursday, Deeb said that the amount of money (...)
The international human rights watchdog Amnesty International urged the Egyptian authorities on Monday to release activist and blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah and drop all charges against him.
On Sunday, Egypt's military prosecutors ordered Abd El Fattah (...)
The United States said on Monday that it had stopped funding UNESCO, the UN cultural agency, following its vote to grant the Palestinians full membership.
On Monday, UNESCO admitted Palestine as a full member in a highly divisive bid that opponents (...)
Egypt's Central Bank sold LE5 billion (US$837.55 million) in domestic treasury bills on Sunday, the same amount it had offered, the Finance Ministry said.
The Central Bank sold LE1.5 billion of 91-day T-bills on behalf of the ministry. The average (...)
Doctors at the hospital in which the Tora Prison inmate, Essam Atta, 23, died, have concurred that he was poisoned, but that there were no signs of torture on his body, according to official investigations.
The death of Atta on Thursday has sparked (...)