At its weekly meeting on Friday, the Spanish government gave the green light to approve Egypt’s request to extradite businessman Hussein Salem, who holds Egyptian and Spanish nationalities. This came at the request of the Spanish Minister of Justice Francisco … read more
Hundreds of protesters spent the night in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, an AFP reporter said on Saturday, after mass nationwide rallies to press the new military rulers to make good on promises of reform. Dozens of tents were pitched in the … read more
For 30 years, the Bedouin tribes of the Sinai Peninsula threatened to bomb the pipeline that carries natural gas from Egypt’s fields to Israel, which they still consider a mortal enemy. But they never did, at least not while Egyptian … read more
Dozens of Egyptians protested on Thursday to demand the introduction of civil marriages, in order to be able to divorce or remarry. Protesters — Coptic Christians as well as Muslims — want the next parliament elected in September to adopt … read more
Egypt is braced for mass demonstrations after opposition activists called for a million-person protest on Friday. Thousands of protesters have begun gathering in Cairo’s Tahrir Square – focus of February’s uprising – to demand speedier reforms. They particularly want to … read more
Egypt’s best-organised political group, the Muslim Brotherhood, said Wednesday it would join mass rallies Friday aimed at pushing for faster reforms and swift punishment for allies of ousted President Hosni Mubarak. Activists complain that recent events, including the use of … read more
Cairo’s Criminal Court issued a judicial order on Tuesday acquitting three former ministers of corruption charges. The court ordered that the charges against Anas El-Fiqi, Youssef Boutros Ghali and Ahmed El-Maghrabi, the former ministers of information, finance and housing respectively, … read more
Four Egyptians workers reportedly died early Tuesday after part of a bridge under construction collapsed in the Cairo suburb of Maadi, a medical source said. Two of the bodies have been recovered from the Nile River and the search is … read more
A sonic boom over Cairo has caused jitters around the capital where many residents called emergency services to report what they thought were explosions. State television reported Wednesday that an airplane breaking the sound barrier was the cause of loud … read more
A court in Egypt on Tuesday acquitted three former ministers from the ousted Hosni Mubarak regime of the charges related to squandering public funds and illegal profiteering, but sentenced another in absentia to five years in prison over the same … read more