CAIRO: Voter turnout during this week's runoff elections was 39 percent, according to Judge Abdel Moez Ibrahim, head of Egypt's Supreme Electoral Committee. Voter turnout during last week's first round elections was 60 percent, he (...)
CAIRO: Head of the Supreme Electoral Committee Abdel Moez Ibrahim said the first phase parliamentary election results' announcement has been postponed.
The results were supposed to be announced today, but have been moved to Friday, December (...)
MADRID, Spain: Egyptian Ambassador to Spain Ayman Zien said the embassy in Spain has been in contact with Egyptian expatriates via the embassy's official Facebook page, through various organizations and unions of Egyptians in Spain and by (...)
Irato Kozakou Marcolis, Cyprus's Foreign Minister, confirmed that Cyprus is ready to coordinate with Egypt to locate and return illegal funds belonging to former regime figures in Cypriot banks, at a press conference Wednesday.
Marcolis said a (...)
The families of those injured and killed during the January 25 Revolution protested outside the Revolution Care Fund to call for quick sentencing of those accused of killing or injuring their relatives.
Protesters called for reform, a change of (...)
CAIRO: Over 4,000 individual candidates and 35 party lists have submitted their nomination for Egypt's upcoming parliamentary elections, according to Judge Abdel Moez, head of the Supreme Election Committee.
Moez said 4,348 independents have (...)
Rod al-Farag police station was attacked by two families, who opened fire on police officers.
Policemen tried to break up a violent altercation between the two families that injured two policemen, Ahmed Abdel Wahab and Ahmed Abdel Moaty. The (...)
Foreign ministries from Geece, Holland and Portugal will visit Egypt soon to discuss a number of bilateral negotiations with Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Amr, about democratic change in Egypt and the latest updates in the regional (...)
Sweden will grant U.S. $1 million (5.96 million EGP) to treat a number of those injured during the January 25 Revolution.
Two of the injured arrived in Stockholm for medical treatment.
Egyptian ambassador to Sweden Osama El-Maagdoob, embassy (...)
On the Egyptian television show “Trends,” Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Amr denied reports that the Egyptian ambassador in Tel Aviv said relations between Israel and Egypt were “eternal.”
Amr Roshdy, the Ministry's spokesman said (...)
Assem el-Gohary, Assistant Minister of Justice for Illicit Gains, froze assets belonging to fugitive businessman Hussein Salem and his family Monday.
Salem, his wife Nazzima Abdel Megeid Ismail, his son Khaled, and his daughter Magda had their (...)
The Ministry of Justice did not give permission to Kuwaiti lawyers to either defend or prosecute ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during his trial, said Minister of Justice Mohamed Abdel Aziz el-Gendy.
The Ministry isn't responsible for (...)
Presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh has announced that he intends to run independently in the presidential elections.
“I would not run on behalf of the Brotherhood even if they asked me to,” said Fotouh, who was until recently a senior (...)
The Monufiya Family Court has granted the divorce of Abir Talaat Fakhry, the woman at the heart of sectarian violence in Imbaba in May, which left 15 people dead.
The 25-year-old Fakhry had filed a lawsuit on 20 March, requesting divorce on the (...)
Thousands of Sufis celebrated the birthday of Sidi Mohamed Shebl Ben al-Fadl Ben al-Abbas, known as Sidi Shebl, in Monufiya Friday.
The celebrations come as Sufis have accused members of the Salafi movement for demolishing the shrines of revered (...)
A security source said two Egyptian employees of Textile Indroma set themselves on fire Thursday, protesting management's decision to transfer them to other departments.
The workers were transferred to a hospital in Monufiya Governorate in critical (...)
The misdemeanor appeals court in Tanta yesterday postponed until 5 September the delivery of a verdict in the appeal hearing of the two lawyers accused of assaulting a chief prosecutor. Mustafa Fattouh and Ihab Saei Eddin will remain behind bars (...)