CAIRO: While it remains unclear how well last minute contenders Omar Suleiman and Khairat Al-Shater will do in the presidential election, experts argue that the US is leaning towards the latter for his economic policies.
In post-Mubarak Egypt, (...)
CAIRO: Representatives of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) said Thursday that all options are open to confront the ruling military council and sack the current transitional government, including organizing mass protests.
Head of the party's (...)
CAIRO: Military police stormed Egypt's leading public hospital early Tuesday after a fight between one of the hospital guards and an army soldier, the hospital staff said.
Three guards were detained by the military, the added.
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CAIRO: On Tuesday, Talaat Rashed Mansour spent his day salvaging what is left of his spare car parts shop that was burnt down during the latest clashes between protesters and security forces.
Located on Mohamed Mahmoud St., the shop was (...)
CAIRO: A number of protesters who gathered in Sayeda Zeinab early Wednesday failed to convince the neighborhood's residents to join the march that was en route to Tahrir Square to mark the first anniversary of the Jan. 25 uprising.
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CAIRO: Parliamentarians had to push their way through protesters early Monday, as hundreds gathered to press for demands, with more pouring to the streets surrounding the parliament building throughout the day.
In front of the heavily guarded (...)
CAIRO: After news emerged Saturday that 1959 military detainees will be released including blogger Maikel Nabil, his brother told Daily News Egypt that lawyers do not expect him to be freed before Jan. 25.
Mark Nabil said the military court (...)
CAIRO: Hundreds of pensioners protested in Cairo's Attaba Square on Sunday demanding an increase in the pensions they receive every month and a solution to their problems.
The protest was organized by the Independent Union of Egyptian Pensioners, (...)
CAIRO: Representatives of political parties and politicians signed Wednesday Al-Azhar's bill of rights during a meeting aimed at discussing Egypt's future as the first anniversary of the Jan. 25 revolt approaches.
Following the meeting with (...)
CAIRO: The loss of some tribe-backed candidates is one of the main reasons for the low voter turnout in the North Sinai run-offs on Tuesday.
Three of the four candidates contesting the two single winner seats allocated to the constituency are (...)
NORTH SINAI: As North Sinai's various tribes compete for seats in parliament, they face one common challenge: Islamist candidates.
Voters in North Sinai cast their ballots in the third phase of parliamentary elections where 57 candidates and 13 (...)
CAIRO: Door for presidential candidature applications will open in April following the public referendum on the new constitution, according to a report by state-run Al-Ahram newspaper Sunday.
The report quoted Judge Mohamed Attiya, Minister of (...)
CAIRO: Liberal Cairo MP Amr Hamzawy denied Sunday reports that the Supreme Administrative Court had stripped him of his membership in parliament citing dual citizenship.
Hamzawy, who won a single-winner seat in the first phase of the elections in (...)
CAIRO: Thirty-two rights groups condemned a raid on civil society organizations Thursday, promising to continue their work.
Security forces and prosecutors raided 17 offices of rights groups and organizations on Thursday, including the offices of (...)
CAIRO: The Advisory Council's legislative committee presented its amendments to the presidential elections law to the Cabinet amid skepticism on the part of presidential hopefuls that the elections will be held by June as scheduled.
“This is all (...)
SOHAG/CAIRO: Residents of Sohag complain that their governorate is abandoned, its resources wasted and the prominent role it played in history overlooked.
The governorate, from which King Menes who unified Upper and Lower Egypt into a single (...)
CAIRO: Head of the volunteer defense team Yousry Abdel Razek said that the recent clashes between protesters and security and armed forces, prove that other authorities gave orders to shoot protesters during the January uprising and not the ousted (...)
CAIRO: The Ministry of Culture assigned Monday two committees to examine the demands of the Alexandria Opera employees, who have ended their 36-day strike.
The committees, which were formed after a delegation of the employees met the minister on (...)
CAIRO: Employees at the district authority of West Cairo complained of dire working conditions as they are forced to resume work at a partially burnt building, located next to the Scientific Complex.
Employees say that the building is not (...)
CAIRO: The Doctors' Syndicate will file an official complaint to the Prosecutor General against those behind attacks on doctors who were treating protesters during the Mohamed Mahmoud Street and Cabinet clashes, which led to the death of volunteer (...)
CAIRO: Tahrir Square was one of the 10 most dangerous places for journalists in 2011, a year that saw 66 journalists killed worldwide, 20 of whom while covering Arab uprisings, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Thursday.
The 10 places (...)
CAIRO: Twenty candidates are vying for 10 seats in the run-offs in Sohag on Wednesday and Thursday, in a showdown between Islamists and candidates associated with the now dismantled National Democratic Party.
The second of three phases of the (...)
CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party said calls to hand over power to parliament are premature.
In the wake of this week's deadly crackdown on protesters, a number of politicians and activists had called for handing over (...)
CAIRO: Twenty-nine youth and rights groups called on Egyptians Tuesday to revolt against the “tyrannical” military that killed peaceful protesters and burning state-institutions.
To counter statements made by the ruling military council a day (...)
CAIRO: The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) blamed the recent violence on provocateurs with a systematic plan to bring Egypt down, saying military forces exercised self-restraint in the deadly crackdown.
SCAF General Adel Emara promised (...)