The death toll in violence on Monday at the Cairo headquarters of the Republican Guard rose to 42, Egyptian state television said, after the Muslim Brotherhood accused the security forces of attacking protesters there.
The Egyptian military said "a (...)
A Coptic priest was shot dead Saturday on al-Sentral Street in the North Sinai neighbourhood of al-Masaeed.
Gunmen shot dead a Coptic Christian priest in Egypt's lawless region in the third recorded instance of sectarian violence against Christians (...)
President Mohamed Morsy agreed to suspend the controversial Judicial Authority Law and keep Justice Minister Ahmed Mekky in place in order to diffuse tensions with the judiciary, senior sources in the justice system said on Monday.
These decisions (...)
President Mohamed Morsy will call parliamentary elections to start in April, a presidential source told Reuters Thursday, adding that the vote would be held in three or four stages.
"The president will issue a decree soon. It could be tonight, (...)
Finance Minister Morsy Hegazy said that with the government's economic reform program the Egyptian economy will be able to overcome the current financial crisis.
The ministry's estimates indicate that the tax amendment package and measures taken to (...)
The Egyptian pound hit a record low on Tuesday after weakening again at a Central Bank US dollar auction designed to stem a decline in the country's dwindling foreign currency reserves.
The Central Bank said the cut-off price at the Tuesday auction (...)
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 (...)
Egypt's net foreign reserves fell to US$15.12 billion at the end of March from $15.72 billion a month earlier, the Central Bank said on its website on Monday.
A source with the Central Bank, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Al-Masry Al-Youm (...)
The International Monetary Fund has received a document outlining Egypt's proposed economic program to be supported by IMF financing and will schedule a mission to Cairo later in March, a fund spokesman said on Thursday.
"We have now received a (...)
The United States and Egypt are moving toward resolving an impasse over US-funded pro-democracy groups that has cast a shadow over Washington's security ties with Cairo, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday.
"We've had a lot of very (...)
Presidential hopeful Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh is in stable condition after being assaulted and robbed late Thursday night, family sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm.
The family sources said Friday that Abouel Fotouh was attacked at around 11 pm (...)
Egypt said on Wednesday it will not be swayed by aid to change course in a probe of foreign-funded pro-democracy groups and NGOs, a case that has strained ties with the US, a major aid donor to the country.
The government says the case is a judicial (...)
Egypt announced on Monday that it will offer several unprecedented incentives through Egyptian hotels to attract tourists. Egypt's Ministry of Tourism hopes to see tourism recover to between 12 and 13 million visitors this year and total revenue of (...)