Washington, DC —The military attache at the Egyptian Embassy in Washington DC has declined to comment on news reports saying that an Egyptian military delegation surprisingly cancelled its meeting with US Congress, State Department and Pentagon (...)
The way the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) is running the country will lead to a new stage of the revolution, said April 6 Youth Movement leader Ahmed Maher on Tuesday.
“The SCAF wants to retain power and create a regime similar to the (...)
Egypt had serious problems of discrimination and intolerance under the rule of toppled President Hosni Mubarak that are still present even after his resignation, according to the 2011 report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (...)
The US Congress on Wednesday discussed the place of the Muslim Brotherhood group in Egypt's future political scene.
Robert Satloff of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy warned of the group reaching power in Egypt. He said that it pretends (...)
US financial bodies have refused to divulge the name of the Egyptian official allegedly involved in the Mercedes Benz bribery case. The refusal marks the continuation of a policy of silence on the matter that has been in place for over a year.
The (...)
The United States is currently considering an Egyptian request to expand its Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZ) agreement with Egypt to include additional governorates in southern Egypt, US Trade Representative Ron Kirk said this week.
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Egypt's share of Nile water will not be affected if South Sudan chooses independence in its 9 January referendum, US Special Envoy to Sudan, Scott Gration, said on Tuesday.
In a news conference, Gration said Egypt's share of water will remain in (...)
The US Department of Agriculture in a press statement on Monday said wheat futures are on the rise for the third time in four sessions.
Egyptian demand for US grain has also grown recently, a result of a summer drought in Russia and Eastern Europe, (...)
Egyptian Osama Hosni Zaghloul has yet to be officially charged after a two-year detention period at Hudson prison in the US state of New Jersey. Zaghloul is suspected of child molestation.
Zaghloul accepted a position from the US Naval Medical (...)
The US administration cannot penalize Terry Jones, the controversial Florida church pastor that had threatened to burn the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks--or prevent him from going through with his threats--since the US constitution (...)
Egyptian Chief of Intelligence Omar Suleiman met with Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz in Mecca on Tuesday to brief him on the first round of direct talks between the Palestinians and the Israelis. The talks began in Washington last (...)
Egyptian presidential spokesman Suleiman Awad said in a press conference in Washington President Hosni Mubarak has offered to host the second round of peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis in Cairo. The offer was extended to US President (...)
Security arrangements are being made by the Egyptian embassy in Washington in preparation for President Hosni Mubarak's visit to the US to attend direct negotiations among Palestinians and Israelis.
Sameh Shoukri, the Egyptian Ambassador to the US, (...)
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Monday denounced press statements by NASA Director Charles Bolden during his recent visit to Egypt, in which he said that NASA welcomes help from Muslim scientists.
"This is not his nor NASA's job," said Gibbs, (...)
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed concern about the state of democracy and human rights in Egypt while speaking at a Saturday conference in Krakow, Poland entitled "Civil Society: Supporting Democracies in the 21st Century."
"The (...)
A US State Department spokesman has expressed concern over the alleged killing of Khaled Saeed at the hands of the Egyptian police.
The US, like the European Union, would like the Egyptian government to investigate the incident and punish its (...)
Egyptian activists in Washington and London will stage demostrations this weekend to condemn the murder of Khaled Saeed, a young man allegedly killed by police officers in Alexandria last week. A protest is also scheduled in Cairo's Tahrir (...)
The US State Department released Monday its 10th annual Trafficking in Persons Report. The report puts Egypt in the second of three categories of countries in terms of efforts made to combat human trafficking.
Egypt is a source, transit, and (...)
Washington--The United States has never involved itself in determining who Egypt's president will be, a former White House advisor has said.
"Choosing the next [Egyptian] president is a decision entirely in the hands of the Egyptian people," said (...)
Egyptian Ambassador to the United States Sameh Shoukry has stated that the purpose of establishing the Mubarak Trust Fund, a special endowment to be set up by the US government for Egypt, is to utilize American aid more effectively within a (...)
The National Association for Change (NAC) has announced the opening of a new branch in Canada. The branch is co-established with other Egyptian organizations such as Egyptian Canadians for Democracy and The Egyptian Canadian Foundation for Human (...)
Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif has provided Attorney-General Abdel Maguid Mahmoud with information obtained from a US court about the Daimler-Benz bribery case, so that the latter could take the "necessary steps."
The court has charged Daimler-Benz with (...)
Mohamed ElBaradei, leader of the pro-reform National Association for Change and possible presidential candidate, has launched a fierce attack against the Egyptian regime describing it as "vicious" and asserting that he will not participate in a (...)