Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul-Gheit on Monday stated that Lebanon would be the focus of discussions between President Hosni Mubarak and Saudi monarch Abdullah Bin Abdel Aziz at a scheduled conference in Sharm el-Sheikh on (...)
In the wake of an incident in which two Egyptians, one a journalist, were shot in the Saudia Arabian capital of Riyadh on Wednesday, the General Egyptian Counselor to Saudi Arabia Fawzi el-Ashmawi said he was forming a task force to follow (...)
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul-Gheit boarded a plane to Afghanistan Monday to participate in an international conference in Kabul aimed at shoring up support for reconstruction and peacemaking efforts in the war-torn country.
The event, (...)
Egypt has reached an agreement with Ethiopia to re-examine their differences in a recent dispute caused by upstream states' attempt to negotiate a new Nile water sharing accord, according to Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit.
In remarks (...)
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abu Gheit was feeling positive about talks held in Addis Ababa between Ethiopian officials and himself and Egyptian Minister of International Cooperation, Fayza Abul Naga.
The talks focused on the allocation of the (...)
Alexandria District Attorney Yasir Rafai has ordered that Mahmoud Salah Mahmoud and Awad Ismail Suliman, policemen from the Sidi Gabr Police Department, be detained for four days pending investigation into allegations that they had used excessive (...)
Egyptian Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Mohamed Nasr el-Din Allam will present a report summarizing Egypt's participation in the recent Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) conference in Addis Ababa to the Egyptian Council of Ministers on (...)
The war of words between the Egyptian Foreign Ministry and Palestinian resistance group Hamas--which began after leading Hamas member Mahmoud el-Zahar criticized Egyptian FM Ahmed Abul-Gheit in a 25 June interview with Al-Masry Al-Youm--escalated on (...)
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is prepared to "cooperate" with Egypt to help it develop a peaceful nuclear program, according to IAEA Director Yukiya Amano. Amano's remarks came during his visit to Cairo on Tuesday, during which he (...)
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Abul Gheit held talks with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos on Thursday to discuss the latest developments in the Middle East, particularly in relation to the (...)
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday rejected an Israeli proposal--made the day before by Israeli Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz--to completely sever all connections between the Gaza Strip and the Hebrew state and make Egypt fully (...)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Yukiya Amano is scheduled to visit Cairo on 21 June to discuss the training of personnel for Egypt's first nuclear energy reactor, the construction of which will begin in 2013. Amano is (...)
Cairo over the coming days will be the scene of intense discussions between the Nile Basin states, which are trying to contain an emerging crisis in which five of the states have signed a new Nile water sharing agreement without the approval of (...)
The Egyptian ambassador in Beirut has been instructed to follow up on the lynching of an Egyptian citizen last week, an Egyptian diplomatic source told Al-Masry Al-Youm.
Mohamed Salim Massalem, a 38-year-old Egyptian citizen, was murdered and his (...)