CAIRO: Parliament members continued discussions of the proposed law concerning implementing a minimum and maximum wage amid continuous labor sit-ins and protests in different sectors.
The proposed law presented by the planning and general budget (...)
CAIRO: For long street children have been subject to abuse, humiliation and immense poverty. They also face greater risks of illegal detention and are the most subjected to police brutality, experts say.
Street children make up around 8 percent (...)
CAIRO: Twenty-three workers at the Nasr Oil Company were injured after new explosions were reported at the company's site in Suez Tuesday dawn, officials said.
The injured were taken to the General Suez hospital with injuries to the spine and (...)
CAIRO: Rights groups and lawyers representing the victims of the Maspero crackdown said Wednesday they withdrew from the ongoing military trial of the soldiers accused of running over protesters by armed personnel carriers last October.
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It's after sunset on a Friday night. A few weeks after clashes took place in Mohamed Mahmoud Street, a group of young artists enter Tahrir Square and observe the scene ahead. Their eyes set on the street where hundreds faced death and suffocation — (...)
CAIRO: Bahraini political and Rights activist, Maryam Alkhawaja, was allowed into Egypt Monday after being held for over 12 hours at the Cairo International Airport, while another Palestinian journalist was deported to Gaza.
Palestinian Majed (...)
CAIRO: Egypt once again ranked among the world's worst violators of religious freedom by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom's (USCIRF) in its annual report.
The report said that Egypt's transition government has continuously (...)
CAIRO: As Egypt's presidential election nears, political activists are launching several campaigns to bring attention back to the forgotten goals of the revolution.
One of these was at first understood to be a political awareness campaign to urge (...)
CAIRO: Mo'mena Badawy is a middle-aged woman who has been her family's sole breadwinner since her husband was left crippled from an accident in 1993.
Despite the social and financial hardships she faces daily, she manages to support her family, (...)
CAIRO: Fourteen months after Hosni Mubarak was ousted, university students are still on the frontlines battling against remnants of the old regime.
After Mubarak's removal, students debated the idea of reviving an inclusive body to represent (...)
CAIRO: The Salafi Al-Nour Party said Monday that MP Anwar El-Belkemy resigned from the party and the People's Assembly after investigations revealed he had falsely claimed to have been attacked, while he had undergone surgery, believed to be a nose (...)
CAIRO: In a bid to offer solutions to Egypt's challenges, a new German university in El-Gouna will open its doors this year with three specialized Master's programs that encourage students to take science to their communities.
The Technical (...)