CAIRO: A seven-hour time difference did not stop Egyptians from closely following the voting process in the United States that went on until 6 am Cairo local time, as they watched America's first black president-elect Barack Obama make history with (...)
CAIRO: Halfway through the time set for meeting its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the United Nations released a report discussing the progress made thus far in Africa and Western Asia, with North Africa making significant strides towards the (...)
CAIRO: Minister of Electricity and Energy Hassan Younis adamantly denied reports of Israeli experts working in the High Dam.
In a statement sent to Daily News Egypt, the minister confirmed that there are no Israelis working in the high (...)
CAIRO: Two days after the rockslide in the shantytown of Duweiqa, numerous charity organizations are supplying the survivors and their relatives with food, water, juice, blankets and more.
Food and water top the list of demanded items in the (...)
CAIRO: Hisham Talaat Moustafa, Egyptian billionaire and real estate tycoon, charged with hiring a hitman to murder Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim, is making headlines in the local press.
Some papers dedicated several pages to covering details of (...)
CAIRO: The total number of graduates from universities and institutes both public and private recorded 116 percent increase in the last 10 year, a recent study by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics revealed.
In 2007, (...)
CAIRO: The judicial committee supervising the Lawyers' Syndicate elections has postponed the elections from Oct. 10 to Nov. 14, giving candidates an extra month and four days to promote their campaigns.
According to Refaat El-Saeed, head of the (...)
CAIRO: Food prices in state-run shops, known as gamiyat estehlakia, increased just days before the start of Ramadan, despite government efforts to curb inflationary pressures and stabilize prices ahead of the consumer-heavy month.
The Holding (...)
CAIRO: An official report from the Egyptian Cotton Council revealed that the production of cotton went from 6 million kantars last year to only 2 million this year.
The statement also revealed that the decrease in productivity is due to the (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian censorship authority approved a play criticizing the government after its director agreed to delete scenes depicting President Hosni Mubarak as well as other controversial scenes of a political nature. The play, Kolo Fel Balala (...)
CAIRO: Teachers continued to voice their complaints through the second day of the teachers' assessment exam stipulated by the Education Ministry.
Teachers expressed their feelings of humiliation and outrage at the irrelevant questions, the lack (...)
CAIRO: The judicial committee supervising the Lawyers' Syndicate elections received Tuesday 10 applications for the chairman position along with 78 applications for other seats.
The applicants represent a wide array of ideologies and (...)
CAIRO: Following a two-year investigation into corruption allegations leveled against the state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper's former editor-in-chief Ibrahim Nafie and director of advertising Hamdy Hassan, Chief Prosecutor at the Court of Appeals Ahmed (...)
CAIRO: Grand Mufti Sheikh Ali Gomaa has renewed his request that all organizers of free public eateries for the poor in Ramadan, known as mawaed el-rahman, to cooperate and coordinate amongst each other, to spread the benefits to the poor in (...)
It usually takes 15 minutes to drive from Marina to Golf Porto Marina on the North Coast, but on the day of pop star Amr Diab's concert, we were lucky to make it in two hours.
With the highway completely jammed patrol officers closed off the (...)
CAIRO: Head of the Doctors' Syndicate Hamdy El Sayed refuted claims made by human rights activists that the proposed organ transplant law discriminates between Muslims and Christians.
The draft law that would regulate organ donations and (...)
CAIRO: The defense team of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders who received jail sentences in a military court filed an appeal Monday before the Higher Court for Military Contests, they said in a press release.
Last April a military court (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian construction guru Hisham Talaat Moustafa, chairman of Talaat Moustafa Group (TMG), called for the drafting of legislation criminalizing rumor mongering in the Egyptian stock market to protect Egypt's economy, according to Egyptian (...)
CAIRO: As more upscale residential developments spring up around Cairo, the shortage in low-income housing supply becomes more obvious.
The newest addition to the list of affordable housing initiatives was announced by the Ministry of Housing (...)
CAIRO: The Iranian documentary "Execution of the Pharaoh, which portrays former Egyptian president Anwar El-Sadat as a traitor, is still making headlines, this time about the identity of its producers.
The media advisor in the Iranian diplomatic (...)
CAIRO: Naguib Gabriel, head of the Egyptian Human Rights Union, denied reports in Al-Gomhuria state-owned newspaper Sunday claiming that he has published his book "Contempt for Religions despite an Al-Azhar ban.
"What was published in Al-Gomhuria (...)
CAIRO: "Shaaban [the month before Ramadan in the Islamic calendar] is 30 days and Ramadan will begin Sept. 1, Dr Salah Mohamed Mahmoud, head of the National Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, told Daily News Egypt.
Mahmoud said that they will (...)
CAIRO: In the continuous feud between the ruling party and the Muslim Brotherhood, Ali El-Din Helal said the idea of a revolution over the constitution is rooted in the group's ideology.
In his latest interview with Rose Al-Youssef newspaper, Ali (...)
CAIRO: For the second time in less than three months, the first line of the underground in Cairo (Marg-Helwan) suffered a ventilation malfunction between the Tora El-Balad and "Dar El-Salam stations.
The Egyptian Company for the Management and (...)
CAIRO: The four university students affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood that disappeared in Alexandria are now facing charges of belonging to a terrorist cell.
Their lawyer claims they were tortured.
"All the students were tortured, they (...)