Three civilians were injured Monday evening after a bomb exploded in Aswan, state media reported.
The improvised explosive device (IED) was located close to a security camp in Aswan, causing the injuries, one of whom was a four-year-old child. The (...)
The Drug Control and Addiction Treatment Fund strongly criticised the proposal submitted to the cabinet to legalise the hashish trade in Egypt on Sunday.
In response to the proposal produced by Osama Salama, head of the Cairo and Giza Tobacco (...)
Egypt's Illicit Gains Authority (IGA) appealed Tuesday over the acquittal of former interior minister Habib Al-Adly on corruption charges.
In a meeting held on Tuesday, the IGA described Al-Adly's acquittal as a "legal flaw". In a memorandum of (...)
Egypt "has been notified" that Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad will attend the Arab League Summit, said Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry to private TV channel Sada El-Balad Tuesday.
Shoukry stressed that the Arab League needs to "further unite its (...)
The new statute for the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox church of Alexandria's election, set by the Holy Synod, states the age of voters during papal elections should at least be 25 years old.
In the previous set of regulations issued in November 1957, (...)
Security forces in Alexandria arrested Ashraf Al-Shimy, a leading member in the Socialist Popular Alliance Party's (SPAP) Alexandria branch Monday morning, with "no legal support" for doing so.
"We do not know why he was taken," said lawyer Anas (...)
A conscript was injured in Suez during an exchange of fire after an unidentified armed group attacked a police patrol in Suez on Monday, state media reported.
Suez security directorate head Major General Tarek El-Gazzar confirmed the incident, (...)
On the sixth day of student strikes at the German University in Cairo (GUC), students have announced they will be boycotting midterm examinations due to their demands not being met.
Following the death of Yara Tarek after a bus ran her over on (...)
US TV channel Fox News aired an exclusive interview with President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi Monday, in which they discussed the US position regarding Egypt in the ongoing fight against regional threats.
Al-Sisi welcomed the US's support towards the (...)
Minister of Social Solidarity Ghada Waly issued a decision Sunday to dissolve 112 more non-governmental organisations (NGOs) affiliated with the now "terrorist" Muslim Brotherhood, state media reported.
The dissolved organisations include 39 in (...)
Egyptians returning from Libya through the Salloum border in the past 24 hours have numbered 2,140, state media reported.
Cairo International Airport also received several flights transporting Egyptians from Libya, through the Tunisian city of (...)
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry started a foreign tour Tuesday, which will include Tunisia, France, Russia, and China, state media reported.
During his visits, Shoukry will hold talks with the foreign ministers of Tunisia, Russia, China, as well as a (...)
The US Department of State released a joint statement Tuesday by the governments of France, Italy, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and the US on the current situation in Libya.
The statement condemned the ongoing acts of terrorism and called for (...)
The Cairo Criminal Court postponed Wednesday the "Wadi El-Natrun" trial against ousted president Mohamed Morsi and 130 more Muslim Brotherhood members to 21 February, state-media reported.
While the defence tried to explain that the telephone that (...)
"The government healed our wounds; their reaction was unexpected," Maher Yousef, brother to a victim of the attacks on the 21 Coptic Christians in Libya, told Daily News Egypt.
Families of the victims were satisfied with the compensations given to (...)
One conscript was killed and three police personnel were injured Sunday morning when unknown gunmen attacked a checkpoint in Banha, state media reported.
Anonymous armed men fired at a security checkpoint in the governorate of Qaliubiya while they (...)
Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb arrived in Dubai Wednesday morning for a two-day visit for the Dubai Government Summit, where he delivered a keynote speech in its concluding session, state media reported.
Upon arrival, Mehleb was received by Sheikh (...)
Pearson in collaboration with the British Council handed 55 students the Edexcel High Achievers award on Tuesday for their outstanding achievements in higher education.
Awards were presented to students who obtained a minimum of 7A grades in (...)
The ‘Port Said Massacre' retrial was postponed from Sunday to 9 February, state media has reported.
According to state-run newspaper Al-Ahram, the defence argued that the investigations were affected by the "coverage of Medhat Shalaby's programme" (...)
The Ministry of Religious Endowments organised a demonstration Tuesday, in front of Abbasiya's Al-Noor Mosque, in solidarity with the armed forces and the police, state media reported.
The ministry added that the demonstration is to emphasise its (...)
Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry met with the President of the International Peace Institute in the United Nations, Terry Larson, in Cairo Tuesday, according to a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The meeting discussed the (...)
The European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) will monitor the 2015 parliamentary elections, EU sources confirmed.
The parliamentary elections are believed to be the third and final step of the roadmap that was announced after the removal (...)
The Ministry of Health announced Tuesday the death of a 31-year-old woman from Giza due to bird flu, according to state media. This is the tenth death resulting from bird flu in Egypt this year.
Two new cases were also confirmed positive in the (...)
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry announced that Egypt did not attend the opening meeting session of the International Contact Group for Libya Wednesday morning in Addis Ababa, state media reported.
Shoukry explained the decision came in (...)
The Giza Criminal Court postponed the trial of 31 defendants charged with killing prominent Shi'a cleric Hassan Shehata and three others to 10 February, due to the absence of some defendants, state media reported.
On 23 June 2013, Shehata, two of (...)