Cairo - Egyptian news agency MENA announced Tuesday night that Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj and Libyan General Khalifa Haftar, in indirect meetings in Cairo, "have agreed to hold parliamentary and presidential elections" in Libya "in (...)
Cairo - Egypt's Central Bank Governor Tarek Amer said on Friday that foreign investors would be able to repatriate profits and capital "in the coming period" now that hard currency reserves were recovering, state news agency MENA reported.
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Egypt has referred two maritime inspection officials to trial for their role in the capsizing of a migrant ship that led to the death of over 200 earlier this year, state news agency MENA reported on Saturday.
A boat carrying about 450 people (...)
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has said that it plans to hold a march in Cairo on Thursday, one day after security forces mounted a violent crackdown on its members, leaving hundreds dead.
"Marches will launch this afternoon from Al-Eman mosque to (...)
The Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr office fire in Tahrir Square was carried out by a mob that had been chanting slogans against the Qatari-owned station, according to a studio employee.
The first-floor office used by the station, set up after the uprising (...)
South Korean electronics giant Samsung will invest LE1.7 billion ($279.3m) building its first Egyptian plant in Beni Suef in a move that will create 1,400 new jobs.
Samsung signed a contract with Egyptian officials at a Tuesday conference held by (...)
A Kurdish party that is extending its power in northern Syria as President Bashar Al-Assad battles an insurgency raging elsewhere, warned Turkey not to interfere in the region where it fears rising separatist militancy along its border.
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A Spanish court has ordered the extradition of Magda, the daughter of Mubarak-era business tycoon Hussein Salem, according to Egypt's ambassador to Spain, Ayman Zein Eddine.
The verdict was returned a few days after the Spanish government reportedly (...)
One Egyptian is missing following a building collapse in the Ashrafiyeh district of Beirut. The missing person is Hani Ibrahim Abd El-Younis, while Egyptians Tamer Abu El-Azm Hemeda, Badr Abu El-Azm Hemeda, Mesbah Mohamed Nour El-Din and Mohamed (...)
Israeli ambassador Yitzhak Levanon returned to Cairo on Sunday, around two months after the embassy was stormed by protesters furious after Israel killed five Egyptian border guards.
According to the state-run news agency MENA, Levanon, whose (...)
The Arab League on Sunday condemned Israeli air assaults on the Gaza Strip and said the United Nations must take action to end the attacks, in which at least 15 people have died.
"We issued a statement condemning the Israeli offensive on Gaza ... (...)
CAIRO-President Hosni Mubarak has accepted an invitation from US President Barack Obama to attend a summit in Washington next month to kick-start Palestinian-Israeli direct talks, reported the official Middle East News Agency late Friday.
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CAIRO - Egyptian security said Wednesday that Gaza militants may be behind rockets that hit Israel and Jordan on Monday, Egypt's official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported.
"The preliminary information that the security has received indicates (...)
CAIRO (Update) - Gaza factions may be behind rockets that hit Israel and Jordan Monday, Egypt's official news agency quoted a security source as saying Wednesday, but Hamas said there was no evidence to support the claim.
Rockets from Egypt's Sinai (...)
ABUJA - Eight developing countries are mulling Wednesday means to reduce trade barriers, protect migrant workers' rights and support the peaceful use of nuclear energy in their meeting in the Nigerian capital.
Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif (...)