The El Nadeem Centre for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture could become the next in a series of NGOs that have seen their closure in recent years.
El Nadeem Director Aida Seif El-Dawla confirmed on Wednesday a Reuters report, (...)
Arsenal star Mesut Özil has been voted Germany's National Team Player of the Year for the fourth time in his career.
The 27-year-old played in all but one international match for the world champions in 2015, missing the recent friendly encounter in (...)
Negotiators and activists are getting increasingly serious about the prospects of finalising a carbon-cutting deal here in Paris. No doubt if they are successful, we will see much back-slapping and exhortations of "success" in seven days. But the (...)
Jordanian security forces announced Saturday the arrest of three suspects who were accused of stabbing two Egyptians in Jordan a week earlier, state-run news agency MENA reported.
The third suspect was arrested the day following the stabbings, which (...)
The Ministry of Health in Luxor denied an outbreak of meningitis in the Upper Egypt city, following the death of a citizen and reports of numerous infections across the governorate.
Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in Luxor Nahed Mohamed (...)
The Cairo Court for Urgent Matters ruled that the case filed by Mortada Mansour against the Ultras White Knights, designating them as a "terrorist organisation," does not fall under its jurisdiction, referring the case to the administrative court in (...)
Online dating app Grindr is now warning users in Egypt against giving out their personal information and setting up meetings with other Grindr users due to the threat of arrests against users in the LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender] (...)
Since the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood from power in July 2013, the role of the military institution in Egypt has witnessed a major upsurge in its already dominant role in the state, posing itself in the place of various state authorities, from (...)
Saudi Arabia, Montenegro, and the Ivory Coast will be leading the review of Egypt's human rights track record in the United Nations Human Rights Council's upcoming Universal Periodic Review, set to take place on 5 November.
The Universal Periodic (...)