ISTANBUL ��" Riot police with water cannons and tear gas are hitting protesters who remain defiant after authorities evicted activists from an Istanbul park.
Sunday's clampdown indicated authorities were taking a hardline stance against attempts to (...)
CAIRO - Many Egyptian men and women complain about each other's driving, especially in Cairo, where the traffic is so heavy. They accuse each other of being unprofessional and unqualified, but women come in for more criticism than men.
"Some women (...)
Local fish production has hit about 1.4 million tonnes a year, most of it from aquaculture, the major source of fish in Egypt, a country that ranks eighth in world in terms of fish production.
The development and expansion of modern aquaculture (...)
Emad Abdel-Ghaffour has announced his resignation from the post of Chairman of the ultra-Conservative Al-Nur Salafist Party, which was founded after the January 25 Revolution and in 2011 won 26 per cent of the seats in the now-dissolved (...)
CAIRO - Shell Egypt has confirmed that it is continuing to invest here, geologist Ra'ed Saba said, adding that Shell has presented a bid to the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) next February for gas exploration in Egyptian water.
“The (...)
The Constituent Assembly (CA), tasked with writing the new Egyptian Constitution, witnessed a big debate on Tuesday about whether or not the Shura Council should be retained in the new Constitution.
The Muslim Brotherhood's (MB) Freedom and Justice (...)
Members of the ‘governance committee' in the Constituent Assembly, tasked with writing the new constitution, were on Monday divided over the electoral system in the constitution.
Some want the elections to be held by lists; however, others want 50 (...)
Egyptian people aren't used to watching female presenters reading news bulletin while wearing the hijab, so they are surprised to turn on their TVs and notice a woman reading a midday news bulletin, dressed in a smart black suit and a neat (...)
President Mohamed Morsi will pay his first visit to China tomorrow, amid expectations that this tour will minimise the US hegemony on the Middle East, while Egypt will be given more opportunities for investment in China.
Morsi, during the three-day (...)
CAIRO - Egyptian activists, political powers and parties have called for a review of the peace agreement with Israel.
Following the attack in Rafah on Sunday that left 16 Egyptian soldiers dead, the call for reviewing the Camp David Accord has (...)
BEIRUT Reuters - A bomb exploded on the third floor of a Syrian state television and radio building in Damascus on Monday, state media said.
The television station, which continued broadcasting, carried an interview with Information Minister Omran (...)
CAIRO - In a real test of democracy, about 50 million Egyptians will head on Wednesday and on Thursday to the ballot boxes to pick their president.
This is an unprecedented and historic event, as the country's top post was always occupied by a (...)
CAIRO - A two-day electoral silence starts Monday and Tuesday before the presidential vote that will kick off on Wednesday and Thursday.
The runoff vote will be on June 16 and 17, if no single candidate wins an outright majority. Egypt's next (...)
CAIRO - An MP and a member of the Constitutional and Legislative Committee (CLC) revealed on Tuesday that, as yet, there has been no agreement on the formation of the 100-member Constituent Assembly (CA) tasked with writing the new Constitution, the (...)
CAIRO - Public Prosecutor Abdel-Maguid Mahmoud decided on Monday to refer the report of MP Essam Sultan against Ahmed Shafiq, a presidential candidate and former regime official, to the Supreme Public Property Prosecution, the official Middle East (...)
CAIRO - The Saudi authorities have started investigating Egyptian activist Ahmed el-Gizawi, who has been arrested, they say, for trying to smuggle into Saudi Arabia a huge quantity of the anti-anxiety medicine Xanax, which is banned in the country, (...)
CAIRO - Opposition politician Ayman Nour on Thursday said he will run in the first democratic presidential elections following Hosni Mubarak's ousting, having been pardoned by the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on Wednesday, the official (...)
CAIRO - As soon as the membership of the Constituent Assembly (CA) was announced, some of its 100 members, a number of them representing political parties, pulled out, protesting Islamic dominance and adding that the Assembly should have included (...)
CAIRO - Presidential hopefuls Mansour Hassan and Mahmoud Sherif Sunday withdrew from the first democratic presidential election race since the ousting of Hosni Mubarak, who is in jail on charges that include corruption.
The elections will be held on (...)
CAIRO - The Suggestions and Complaints Committee in the People's Assembly (PA [Lower House of Parliament]) on Tuesday agreed on a proposal presented by MP Moustafa Bakri to amend Article 20 of Law 174 issued in 2005, which organises the presidential (...)
CAIRO - The Suggestions and Complaints Committee in the People's Assembly (PA [Lower House of Parliament]) on Tuesday agreed on a proposal presented by MP Moustafa Bakri to amend Article 20 of Law 174 issued in 2005, which organises the presidential (...)
CAIRO - The People's Assembly (PA [Lower House of Parliament]) on Sunday started receiving applications from Egyptians, including members of the PA and Shura Council (Upper House of Parliament) who want to be members of the Constituent Assembly (...)
CAIRO - A Foreign Ministry delegation on Monday paid a visit to the premises of the Higher Presidential Elections Commission (HPEC), in order to co-ordinate the voting process for Egyptian expatriates in the presidential elections, which will be (...)
CAIRO - The head of the Tourism Promotion Authority on Tuesday announced that there will be an urgent plan for restoring tourism to its level before the January 25 Revolution, with the target being about 15 million tourists per annum, the official (...)
CAIRO - The Chairman of Al-Wasat Party asserted on Sunday that they don't have a candidate for first Egyptian presidential elections since last year's ousting of Hosni Mubarak's regime, the official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported.
Abul Ela (...)