Runoff of the first phase of the parliamentary elections will be held in nine Egyptian governorates today December 5. Cairo, Alexandria, Damietta, Port Said, Red Sea, Kafr el- Sheikh, Asyut, Luxor and Fayoum will have polling stations ready for the (...)
Female Iranian activists today published a video on social networking giant Facebook in which they warn the women of the Arab Spring of Islamic movements.
The video shows pictures of Iranian women before and after the Iranian (...)
Activist Alaa Abdel Fattah
CAIRO: Youm7 has obtained copies of the investigations with political activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who is accused of participation in the deadly October 9 Masprio clashes that left 27 dead.
Abdel Fattah's father, (...)
CAIRO: Security forces attacked revolutionary youth outside the Egyptian cabinet building, in an attempt to end their sit-in.
They used tear gas to try and disperse protesters by force and as they retreated, a security forces truck ran over one (...)
Thousands of Egyptians headed to Tahrir Square today November 25 to join protestors and participate in the million-man demonstration, entitled Friday of Last Chance.
Different political forces agreed on the demands of this demonstration, however (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian presidential candidate Mohamed el-Baradei left Tahrir after the Friday Prayer with protestors on the Friday of Last Chance.
El-Baradei tried to wander around Tahrir Square and check up on field hospitals, however it was too (...)
Protestors in Cairo's Tahrir Square rejected the appointment of Kamal el-Ganzouri to lead Egypt's next government, instead demanding a national salvation government.
Banners could be seen opposing Ganzouri, who was Prime Minister under former (...)
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Many Egyptian governorates were affected by Tahrir events and protestors in different Egyptian (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian cabinet announced they could reach an agreement with protestors in Tahrir Square and the clashes in Mohamed Mahmoud St. ceased since 3:00 A.M.
The cabinet sent a short message through its Twitter account, announcing the calm (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian protestors remaining in Tahrir Square this morning carried banners demanding a civilian body replace the military council in ruling Egypt's transitional government.
They also urged the military council to step down and deliver (...)
Egyptians across Egypt arranged protests in solidarity with the “Friday to Protect Democracy” demonstration in Tahrir Square.
Protestors in Tahrir led by Islamists called on Egypt's ruling military council to hand over authority to an elected (...)
Egypt press reported the Supreme Electoral Committee's statement about political forces receiving foreign funds to hold electoral campaigns. The Bella ferry captain statements about refusing Israeli help to rescue the ferry and Sheikh Abdul Hamid (...)
Egypt's Grand Mufti, Ali Gomaa, received an ecclesiastical delegation in his office in Eftaa House yesterday.
The delegation included bishops Armia Yoanis, Morcos and Boutros, Pope Shenouda III's secretarial group.
The delegation met Al-Azhar (...)
CAIRO: A roll was found inside the intestine of Essam Ali Atta, a young man who was supposedly tortured to death last night, during his autopsy.
According to one of the forensic doctors who participated in Atta's autopsy, the roll – which was not (...)
CBC channel issued a leading media initiative, the administrative announced allocating advertising space for free to revolution youth parties and masses, which will run for parliamentary election. This initiative aims to enable youth candidates to (...)
Tens of demonstrators participated today in the March of National Unity and prayed in front of a Coptic cathedral after joining with two other marches.
The march included many political movements that condemn the Maspiro clashes.
The protestors (...)
CAIRO: Nominations for Egypt's upcoming parliamentary elections opened today. Elections for the People's Assembly, the lower house of Egypt's bicameral parliament, will begin on November 28 and will be held in three rounds.
The elections will be (...)
A group of Coptic Christian protesters marched from Shubra towards Maspiro in front of the Egyptian Radio and Television headquarters on the Nile Corniche in Cairo resulted in bloody clashes, deaths and injuries on Sunday October 9.
The events (...)
Dozens of Egyptian protestors spent Thursday night in Cairo's Tahrir Square to prepare for protests planned for Friday entitled “Thanks, Return to Barracks.”
Egyptian political movements and coalitions called for the protest demanding the repeal (...)
CAIRO: Approximately 3,000 protestors demonstrated in Cairo's Tahrir Square after Friday prayers, refusing a statement by the ruling military council and singed by political parties.
Protestors held pictures of chained persons with closed eyes, a (...)
Egypt celebrates the 38th anniversary of the glorious October 6 victory during the 1973 October War when the Egyptian army defeated the Israeli army and regained Sinai.
Cairo airport authorities closed down Cairo air space for an hour until the (...)
Egyptian reported Egypt's ruling military council met the demands of political parties and forces and cancelled the Emergency Law during the upcoming elections. The military council also cancelled article no. 5 of the election (...)
CAIRO: Supreme State Security Criminal Court in Giza, headed by Hassan Radwan, decided to postpone the trail of those who are accused in the resulting incidents of sectarian strife between Muslims and Coptic Christians in the Egyptian neighborhood (...)
CAIRO: The State Security Criminal Court for Emergencies adjourned the trail of Jordanian spy Ibrahim Abu Zeid and Israeli spy Ofeer Harari, who is being tried in absentia, until October 9 to review evidence.
The session started at 11:00 am in (...)
EGYPT: The Democratic Alliance for Egypt, which includes 43 political parties, announced the alliance plans to boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections.
The alliance opposes holding the elections under the system of allowing two thirds of (...)