Saudi Arabia will not halt its economic support of Egypt, Saudi Ambassador to Cairo Ahmed Qattan said Tuesday.
The kingdom coordinated with the Egyptian government to pledge economic aid, Qattan said in a statement.
Earlier press reports said Egypt (...)
In an emergency meeting on Sunday, the Arab League condemned the recent Israeli attacks along the Egyptian border in Sinai, which resulted in the deaths of several Egyptian border security personnel.
The meeting, which was attended by permanent (...)
Fatah and Hamas have agreed to meet in Cairo in the first week of September to resume reconciliation efforts, said Fatah secretary Amin Maqboul on Wednesday.
Hamas Political Bureau Chief Khaled Mashaal met with Egyptian chief of intelligence Mourad (...)
Wagih Hanafy, manager of Arab League Secretary-General Nabil al-Araby's office, said Tuesday that Araby will meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Wednesday before flying to Doha, Qatar to attend a meeting of the Arab Peace (...)
Presidential hopeful Amr Moussa has renewed his call for holding presidential elections in Egypt before parliamentary elections, provided that the new president supervises the drafting of a new constitution for the country.
The constitutional (...)
The meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas Political Bureau Chief Khaled Meshaal, which was scheduled for Tuesday in Cairo, has been postponed for an indefinite period, according to Palestinian sources.
A senior Hamas source (...)
Egyptian prisoners in Tel Aviv have sent a letter to the Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil al-Araby demanding their release in a prisoner swap for Ilan Grapel, the alleged Israeli spy arrested in Egypt. Meanwhile, dozens of Palestinians in the Gaza (...)
Fatah and Hamas on Tuesday resumed talks at the headquarters of the Egyptian intelligence service in order to reach a reconciliation and form a national accord government.
A high Egyptian official said Egypt and all Arab countries support (...)
Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar has said the Palestinian faction fears that Egypt might be in the process of reversing its earlier decision to permanently open the Rafah border crossing.
Speaking with Al-Masry Al-Youm, Zahar urged Egyptian (...)
Presidential candidates Amr Moussa and Hisham al-Bastawisy are traveling to Europe to present their electoral programs to the Egyptian communities living there, in an attempt to win their votes in the coming presidential elections.
“I suggest (...)
The families of Egyptians detained in Libya demonstrated before the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday, demanding that officials intervene with the Libyan authorities to release their relatives and bring them back home.
The demonstrators tried to break the (...)
The government announced on Wednesday that it is to reapply the pre-2007 procedures for Palestinians crossing to and from Egypt by land, sea and air.
The procedures exempt Palestinian women of all ages, as well as men under the age of 18 and over (...)
At the request of Egypt, the permanent delegates of the Arab League held an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday to discuss ways of supporting the implementation of the Palestinian reconciliation agreement and providing financial support to the (...)
Members of various Arab and African communities in Cairo held protests on Sunday against their regimes and calling for increased democratic rights.
Syrians and Yemenis held protests before the Arab League headquarters, condemning the use of force (...)
Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), directed a message of thanks and appreciation to King Abdullah Abdel Aziz and the government of Saudi Arabia for supporting the Egyptian economy with nearly (...)
Member states of the Arab League will choose a new secretary general by ballot during Sunday's emergency meeting of foreign ministers, due to differences between Egypt and Qatar over the preferred candidate, according to sources at the (...)
An official source from the Arab League has sharply criticized the League Secretariat's decision to postpone the Baghdad Summit to March 2012, instead of May 2011. He said the move was “an unprecedented action”.
The source, who requested anonymity, (...)
The Arab League announced an urgent meeting for Arab foreign ministers on May 15 at the headquarters of the League in Oman to choose a successor for current chief Amr Moussa, whose term ends that day.
A discussion of the situations in Libya, Yemen (...)
A committee led by the undersecretary of Egypt's General Intelligence Service, Mohamed Ibrahim, will head to Gaza next week to help restructure its security apapratus, Palestinian sources said.
The move is part of agreements reached through an (...)
The Arab League plans to hold an emergency meeting of foreign ministers on 8 May to discuss recent acts of violence against demonstrators in various Arab countries, and to decide whether the next Arab summit, slated for 11 May, is to go ahead as (...)
Secretary General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, will commence his campaign for Egypt's presidency in Upper Egypt. Moussa will start his bid with a five-day tour. Setting off from Aswan, he will visit Luxor, Qena, Souhag, Assiut, Minya, and Beni (...)
Egyptian Arab League Permanent Representative Afifi Abdel Wahab on Wednesday said that the Foreign Ministry does not intend to withdraw Mostafa al-Fiqqi's nomination for secretary general of the league. He would be succeeding Amr Moussa in the (...)
The Arab League's permanent delegates decided to convene an urgent meeting on Sunday to discuss the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.
"We will discuss Israel's escalating steps and aggressions against the Palestinian people in Gaza, and the Israeli (...)
Arab League member states agree that the body's next secretary general should be an Egyptian national, according to high-level Arab diplomatic sources.
They added that Arab leaders say the new candidate, who would succeed Amr Moussa on 15 May, (...)
Arab diplomatic sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the ruling Supreme Council for the Armed Forces in Egypt has not notified the Arab League or Arab countries of any Egyptian nominees to succeed Amr Moussa, Secretary-General for the Arab League. (...)