The day before he officially recognised the Armenian genocide, which is commemorated on 24 April, US President Joe Biden called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to notify him. That was the first official phone call he made to his Turkish (...)
Thousands of people participated in the Friday funeral of Haj Mahmoud El Araby, the self-made businessman known for his philanthropic activities. Images of the funeral were widely shared on social media, accompanied by posts from employees at his (...)
A Cairo court sentenced on Thursday a sacked judge and two others to 15 years in prison each for kidnapping and raping a woman at a private villa on the country's North Coast.
The woman, who was working at a real estate financing office owned by the (...)
Veteran radio presenter and media specialist Hamdy El Konayessi was born on 19 March 1941 in Shubra Al-Namla village, Gharbiya governorate, and graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, in 1961.
El Konayessi worked as an English (...)
Policy U-turns are among the fortes of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP); and the AKP government has exhibited them, once again, in Afghanistan. Only a week ago, no one would have questioned its resolve to (...)
Egyptian prosecutors ordered on Sunday evening the release of famous Egyptian YouTuber Shady Srour pending investigation into charges of spreading false news and misusing social media.
Srour, who was arrested in December 2019, also faces charges (...)
The Turkish government's condemnation of a spate of attacks on "our brothers and sons", the Syrian refugees in Turkey, and its vow to hand down the harshest penalties against "the thugs and inciters" to violence have elicited diverse reactions. Some (...)
Fredrika Meijier is the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Egypt country representative. Meijier took office in 2021 after previously holding the post of deputy regional director. Across 25 years with UNFPA, she held several posts extending from (...)
Some weeks ago, after over a decade of arctic temperatures between Ankara and Tel Aviv, the former began to grope for ways to sidle up to the latter. This was prompted at least in part by the fact that Israel was developing much closer relations (...)
An Egyptian court requested Interpol issue a notice to arrest and extradite fugitive contractor Mohamed Ali and two others on Sunday, who are charged with spreading fake news, endangering national peace and joining an illegal group.
The court also (...)
Egypt's Prisons Authority ordered on Tuesday the release of 2,075 inmates on the occasion of Eid Al-Adha and the 59th anniversary of the 1952 revolution.
The prisoners were released with a presidential pardon in accordance with presidential decree (...)
Egypt's Public Prosecution ordered on Sunday the release of activist Mahienour El-Masry, and journalists, Motaz Wadnan and Mostafa El-Asar, pending investigation into charges of publishing false news, a statement said.
Legal sources said the release (...)
Egypt's investigating authorities have released journalist Gamal El-Gamal, politician Abdel-Nasser Ismail and activist Esraa Abdel-Fattah after months in pre-trial detention over charges that include joining a terrorist group, a statement said.
The (...)
A famous dentist accused of harassing male patients while providing dental care at his clinic was sentenced to 16 years of rigorous imprisonment by an Egyptian criminal court on Thursday.
The official charges levelled against the dentist is (...)
Egypt's prosecution annulled the asset freeze on Alaa and Gamal, the sons of late ousted president Hosni Mubarak after being exonerated of charges of illicit gains.
The decision renders Alaa Mubarak, his wife, and son, as well as Gamal Mubarak, (...)
During the Diplomacy Forum held in the Turkish Mediterranean coastal town of Antalya last month, Afghan Foreign Minister Haneef Atmar expressed his government's appreciation for Turkey's offer to assume responsibility for securing Kabul (...)
An Egyptian court on Monday sought the religious opinion of the country's grand mufti on preliminary death sentences handed down to 10 people over drug smuggling offences.
The case involves 7 Pakistanis, one Iranian, and two Egyptians who were (...)
Egypt's Prosecutor-General Hamda El-Sawy received on Wednesday in Paris 114 Egyptian artefacts that had been smuggled into France.
According to the office of the prosecutor-general, the Egyptian prosecution's investigations, in cooperation with (...)
Even in the corridors of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), one can hear grumbles echoing what the country's opposition parties are saying out loud: that Turkey's foreign policy is confused and contradictory.
If there is one (...)
Amr Osman is director of the National Fund for Drug Control and Treatment of Addiction, and assistant to the minister of social solidarity. Osman has long been involved in drug prevention. He is a former director of the Drug Prevention Programme at (...)
At least four people were killed and 26 were injured in Egypt after a train smashed into two buses carrying workers in Cairo's Helwan district.
A number of ambulances, civil protection personnel, and police officers have bee dispatched to the (...)
An Egyptian court on Sunday postponed a hearing in the case filed by the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) against the owners of Ever Given vessel, which blocked the waterway for six days in March, for further negotiations to "amicably" settle the (...)
Egypt's prosecution referred a Cairo International Airport employee to a criminal court for stealthily taking photos of a woman.
The assaulter was arrested shortly after the victim had gone on a live stream, accusing him of taking a photo of her (...)
An employee at Cairo International Airport has been convicted of taking non-consensual photos of a woman at the airport and has been sentenced to three years in prison and an EGP 20,000 fine.
The Cairo misdemeanour court convicted the defendant of (...)
Egypt's Public Prosecution said on Tuesday it handed documents to the Italian side that refute alleged involvement of Egyptian officers in the disappearance and murder of Italian researcher Giulio Regeni in Cairo in 2016 amid an ongoing trial in (...)
