Since before the revolution, the drivers of the white taxis have staged more than 20 demonstrations. Things recently took a turn for the worse, when one of them ran over two protesters outside the Ministry of Finance; one of them … read more
Scuffles broke out between lawyers and security officers in a Cairo court on Saturday, disrupting the trial of Egypt’s reviled former interior minister and six other ministry officials on charges of killing protesters. A witness told Reuters police lined up … read more
A group of Egyptian Christians ended a sit-in early Saturday in central Cairo, about two weeks after they began their protests against violence targeting the country’s religious minority. They were protesting in front of the State Radio and Television building … read more
Despite a challenging legal environment for investors in Egypt, Al-Futtaim Group will pour in about two billion Egyptian pounds (Dh1.2337 billion) next year to continue construction of its Cairo Festival City project, IKEA and Marks & Spencer stores, a senior … read more
The exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mish’al on Thursday said that Egypt renewed its efforts to release Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. Mish’al, the head of Hamas politburo, said that the Egyptian mediators are making … read more
The United States has designated a Gaza Strip-based group responsible for attacks on Israel and Egypt as a foreign terrorist organization. The State Department said Thursday that the “Army of Islam” has fired numerous rockets on Israel and kidnapped two … read more
Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Elaraby, who has been named as the Arab League’s next secretary general, reiterated a commitment to his country’s peace treaty with Israel yesterday but said Egypt reserved the right to maintain an independent foreign policy. Speaking … read more
When President Obama appeared on the big-screen TVs at a Pizza Hut overlooking the Nile, the upscale dinnertime crowd shoved aside their slices to hear what he had to say about their revolution and subsequent developments in the Mideast. By … read more
Long lines of cars stretched outside petrol stations nationwide, as the State-subsidised diesel is the main fuel by which transport vehicles are operated. The crisis started with a black market when farmers could not find supplies at local petrol stations … read more
Once they were the main opposition to dictators from Egypt to Tunisia to Syria. Banned and exiled they could position themselves as opponents of leaders propped up by Western paymasters, carrying the scars of imprisonment and torture like badges of … read more