AMMAN, Jordan: The continual disruption in Egyptian natural gas flow to Jordan is reducing the electricity production in Amman, said Amin al-Zoughl, the director of the production planning department in the Jordanian Electricity (...)
The supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamene, urged the Iranians to buy all Syrian products in support of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, according to sources.
Sources said that such a demand made by the highest religious authority in Iran (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian Minister of Religious Affairs and numerous Imams said it is unacceptable Egypt, where Al-Azhar is situated, become a host of the Shia doctrine, adding it will always host the Sunni doctrine.
The Shia doctrine cannot be spread in (...)
CAIRO: April 6 Youth Movement has decided to move its Tahrir Square sit-in to the Council of Ministries because their demands were not met and the National Salvation Government was not formed according to their vision.
Members of the movement (...)
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt: Officers and security members of the governorate of Alexandria took their positions along the different runoff polling stations to secure them in cooperation with the military forces, the deputy Minister of Interior in Alexandria (...)
U.S. president Barrack Obama decided to postpone of transferring the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel-Aviv city to Jerusalem for six months.
President Obama took the decision, supported by a report regarding the topic and according to the (...)
BRUSSELS, Belgium: High representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy in the EU Catherine Ashton said Europe is ready to cooperate with the Islamic parties in the Middle East and Egypt.
The EU is keen to launch ties with all (...)
WASHINGTON: The White House gave a statement Monday saying that the Egyptian parliamentary elections process is long and it is working well, and Washington welcomes this development.
"Barack Obama is concerned only with the genuine shift to (...)
CAIRO: A physician in one of Tahrir's field hospitals Mohamed Rifat said approximately 20 people were shot in their faces with rubber bullets.
Rifat said two of the injured were transferred to governmental hospitals because of the lack of (...)
The Egyptian Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf, affirmed that the parliamentary elections would proceed on schedule Sunday, in a statement after an emergency meeting to discuss clashes in Tahrir that began Saturday.
The cabinet said (...)
KHARTOUM, Sudan: The Sudanese Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said his government is ready to launch negotiations with the newly-declared state of South Sudan and it is expecting the South's answer to be delivered by mediator Thabo (...)
CAIRO: The elections for the People's Assembly and the Shura Council will be held in three stages, beginning on November 28 and concluding in March, said Judge Abdel Moaiz Ibrahim, the head of the Egyptian Supreme Electoral Committee.
“The (...)
A delegation from the Hungarian ministries of the interior and foreign affairs will visit Egypt on Monday to check the condition of the wounded Hungarians who suffered injuries in a traffic accident in Hurghada, an official source in the Hungarian (...)
The General Director of Al-Jazeera, Mustafa Sawak, said that some parties provided the satellite channel with false news about the Arab revolution to harm the channel's credibility.
Sawak said that most of the criticisms Al-Jazeera received are (...)
The high dam port administration managed to arrest a Sudanese with packages of artifacts with him.
The head of the high dam administration General Kamal al-Maghraby was notified a Sudanese citizen coming from Wadi Halfa was arrested for having (...)
Iranian Minister of Defense Ahmed Vahidi said his country is ready to develop military cooperation with recently liberated countries such as Libya, Tunisia and Egypt.
Vahidi added that these states are currently witnessing a transitional period. (...)
CAIRO: The Syrian community in Cairo and representatives of the Syrian opposition demanded on Saturday to impose a no-fly zone in Syria, to protect Syrian civilians from being killed by the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
They also demanded to dismiss (...)
Italian police today launched an investigation into the identities and circumstances surrounding the 151 undocumented Egyptian immigrants who were arrested yesterday in the city of Bari, Italy.
Italian police captured the immigrants' boat after a (...)
Head of the Supreme Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces (SCAF) Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi today flew to Saudi Arabia with a delegation to offer condolences on behalf of Egypt on the occasion of Sultan Abdel Aziz's death.
The (...)
CAIRO: Candidate submissions for Egypt's upcoming parliamentary elections have reached 5,693 individuals and 302 party lists, according to Judge Abdel Moez Ibrahim, head of Egypt's Supreme Elections Committee.
Ibrahim also said that 289 (...)
France encouraged the Egyptian anti-discrimination decree against religious, racial and sex discrimination. French FM's official spokesman Bernard Valero said this decree is considered a positive initiative. It follows with the Egyptian (...)
Amos Gilad, director of policy and political military affairs in the Israeli Ministry of Defense, said Egypt is in a strong position after its role in negotiating the release of captured Israeli soldier Shalit.
The Israeli newspaper Jerusalem (...)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his gratitude Thursday to Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, head of Egypt's ruling military council, for his help in arranging a Palestinian-Israeli prisoner swap.
Captured Israeli soldier Gilad (...)
Sudanese Vice President Ali Osman Taha and a ministerial delegation arrived in Cairo Tuesday to discuss three main strategic issues, reported the Sudanese newspaper al-Raed.
According to the paper, Taha will discuss weapons smuggling from Sudan (...)
CAIRO: Security forces intensified their presence today in the area around Maspiro, the Egyptian television and radio building, as a precaution after last night's deadly clashes.
At least 24 people were killed during hours of violent clashes (...)