The Arab League Secretary-General Nabil al-Araby said Saturday he has urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to take steps to put an end to bloodsheds in his country and to implement democratic reforms demanded by Syrians.
Al-Araby told reporters (...)
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyep Erdogan is set to address an Arab foreign ministers' meeting during a visit to Egypt next week that is expected to focus on regional conflicts.
An Arab League official said Erdogan's address on Tuesday is expected (...)
Two tourism officials have criticized the new government's policy of halting issuing visas for foreign travelers into Egypt.
Amr el-Ezzaby, head of the Tourism Promotion Organization said the new measure will severely harm the tourism industry and (...)
Arab League chief Nabil al-Araby will visit Syria on Saturday after a Qatari threat to launch a diplomatic campaign to further isolate the regime of Bashar al-Assad, an Arab diplomat said on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, the Syrian government postponed (...)
Declaring that stability in Syria is a cornerstone for regional stability, Arab foreign ministers called Sunday for an end to the bloodshed there and decided to dispatch Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Araby urgently to Damascus in a bid to (...)
Arab foreign ministers are assembling in Cairo for an emergency meeting this Saturday to try to forge a regional strategy on how to stop the violence in Syria, amid rising criticism of these their countries' failure to respond to the Bashar Assad (...)
Many criticisms have been leveled at Egypt's military rulers for drafting a 63-article interim Constitutional Declaration without consulting the country's revolutionary forces, just two weeks after Egyptians cast their ballots in favor of amending (...)
Arab countries are moving toward approving a no-fly-zone over Libya to stop the Qadhafi regime's air strikes on its opponents, said Arab diplomats on Friday.
The diplomats told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the emergency meeting for Arab foreign ministers (...)
A delegation representing the Libyan government is unlikely to participate in Saturday's emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers to discuss the Libyan crisis, deputy secretary-general of the Arab League Ahmed Bin Helli said on Friday.
The United (...)
Iran has offered to build an automobile and bus assembly factory in Egypt in a further sign of the Persian nation's desire to restore ties with one of the Arab world's powerhouse.
A team of visiting Iranian entrepreneurs who are participating in (...)
Arab foreign ministers held discussions on Wednesday in an effort to hammer out a joint stance on US-backed efforts to re-launch deadlocked Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations.
The talks come amid a diplomatic flurry, including intensified (...)
Egypt's polling stations closed their doors to voters at 7 PM on Sunday after an Election Day marred by at least two elections-related deaths, allegations of nationwide vote fraud, and feeble voter turnout.
Experts believe that the ruling National (...)
An Egyptian appeal court decided Saturday to go on with a retrial of the head of Egypt's small Jewish community rejecting her appeal to stop the process, judicial sources said.
Carmen Weinstein, 82, was convicted in July by an Egyptian court for (...)
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Top officials of the US President, Barack Obama have been discussing new ways to put pressure on the regime of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak including the appointment of a new ambassador committed to political change, according (...)
The White House may consider a series of proposals to address political reforms in Egypt before the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections, said US experts.
Experts in the bi-partisan Washington-based Egypt Working Group said they met (...)
An Egyptian human rights group said on Friday an activist had been abducted by members of the security forces in plain clothes but that he had been freed later.
In a statement, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) said Amr Salah was (...)
Egypt's most serious presidential challenger has accused President Hosni Mubarak's government of posting Facebook photos of his daughter in a swimsuit in an attempt to discredit him, a local newspaper reported on Saturday.
Mohammed ElBaradei, Nobel (...)
Prominent businessman and president of the liberal opposition Wafd party el-Sayed el-Badawy has expanded his media empire by buying the independent newspaper Al-Dostour, in a bid to enhance his party's chances in the upcoming parliamentary and (...)
The underground tunnel trade between Egypt and the Gaza Strip has been nearly paralyzed after Israel decided to partially allow the entry of goods previously prohibited under a longstanding blockade, merchants and local officials at the Rafah border (...)
The Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ), an international media watchdog, appealed on Thursday to Egyptian Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali to drop criminal charges against two journalists from a weekly independent newspaper.
Ghali had filed (...)
German federal prosecutors are investigating a leading German firm on charges of world-scale corruption and bribery cases of foreign agents, according to documents obtained by Al-Masry Al-Youm, that also unveil the partially UAE- owned company had (...)
Washington--The United States has never involved itself in determining who Egypt's president will be, a former White House advisor has said.
"Choosing the next [Egyptian] president is a decision entirely in the hands of the Egyptian people," said (...)
In the final review of Egypt's human rights record at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on 11 June, Egypt accepted most recommendations made during the council's Universal Periodical Review.
The final review took place in the presence of states (...)
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Wednesday that only God could know who would succeed him following his 29-year-old rule, the official MENA news agency reported.
Dogging a question on his possible successor by an Italian reporter, Mubarak (...)
Washington--The White House expressed disappointment in Egypt's decision to extend a controversial emergency law for two years and is calling for it to be replaced with a promised counterterrorism measure that would protect Egyptian civil (...)