Egypt will pump the full amount of natural gas to Jordan as specified in a previous agreement by mid-December, according to Egypt’s petroleum minister. On Sunday, Petroleum Minister Osama Kamal said now that demand for gas from Egypt’s electricity sector … read more
Months-old internal divisions and ideological disagreements among the 100-member Constituent Assembly – the body tasked with writing Egypt’s new constitution – have reached a crescendo on Sunday as more than 30 non-Islamist members have decided to withdraw from the Assembly’s … read more
Ismailia security authorities foiled an attempt to break four imprisoned drug smugglers out of a police station Monday after the prisoners’ relatives attacked the station. The prisoners’ relatives, armed with firearms, bladed weapons and Molotov cocktails, reportedly stormed the station … read more
A convoy organised by several Egyptian political parties, revolutionary groups and independent activists has crossed into Rafah border Sunday night to show solidarity with the Palestinian people, currently suffering under fierce Israeli airstrikes that have killed at least 65 Palestinians … read more
The Interior Ministry warned against what it claimed were calls to break into government buildings Monday, when activists plan to memorialize last year’s clashes on Mohamed Mahmoud Street. So far there have been no calls to enter government buildings, but … read more
Two citizens were killed and ten people were injured, five of whom were security personnel, Sunday morning in clashes between security forces and residents of Qarasiya, Giza in a dispute over a plot of land. The Armed Forces had set … read more
A Palestinian delegation headed by Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal met with an Egyptian delegation on Saturday and demanded Egypt ease the blockade on Gaza via the Gaza-Egypt border and that Israel must stop assassinating Hamas leaders as conditions for cease-fire. … read more
A group of technical advisers helping to write Egypt’s new constitution resigned on Saturday, saying they would draw up a draft of their own because their voices were not being heard, state news agency MENA said. The resignations further complicate … read more
Militant rocket fire into Israel subsided during the night but resumed in the morning with three rockets fired at the nearby coastal city of Ashkelon, the Israeli army said. “As of now we have struck more than 1,000 targets, so … read more
Acting Coptic Orthodox Pope Bishop Pachomius announced Saturday that the Egyptian churches were officially withdrawing their three members from the Constituent Assembly. Speaking at a press conference, Pachomius said that “the Egyptian churches [have] sensed discomfort at the trends that … read more