Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was hospitalized this week due to a drop in blood pressure, and his condition is stable, state media reported late Saturday. Mubarak, who is suspected of involvement in the deaths of anti-regime protesters, was previously … read more
Ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s sons on Sunday were questioned on their financial activities in Cyprus and the British Isles, the public prosecutor’s office said. Alaa and Gamal Mubarak faced investigators at the Cairo prison where they are being held after … read more
Egypt’s attorney general for public funds charged former prime minister Ahmed Nazif, former finance minister Yousef Boutros Ghali, and former interior minister Habib el-Adly with wasting more than $15 million in public money and with profiteering, the official news agency … read more
Egypt’s State Minister for Antiquities Zahi Hawass on Sunday was sentenced to one year in jail, but it will be suspended until the appeal ruling, official MENA news agency reported. The decision came after Hawass refused to abide by a … read more
A high-level Egyptian court has ordered the dissolution of Egypt’s former ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), fulfilling a central demand of the protest movement that ousted the country’s former president in February. But reports of the NDP’s death may be … read more
More than two months after the Egyptian revolution that ousted former President Hosni Mubarak, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed fears that the new government in Egypt is becoming ‘anti-Israel.’ Addressing a gathering of European Union ambassadors in East … read more
An Egyptian court has ordered the dissolution of the country’s former ruling party led by ousted President Hosni Mubarak, and the confiscation of its assets. The move, which indicate that the military are working towards meeting the demands of the … read more
Former President Hosni Mubarak has been transferred to a military hospital near Cairo from the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, the Egyptian Ahram newspaper reported on its website Saturday. Mubarak was taken by a military helicopter to the International … read more
A leading activist in Egypt’s pro-democracy uprising warned the country’s stalled economy posed a risk to its new political freedoms and he called for more help from the international community. Wael Ghonim, a Google executive who emerged as a figurehead … read more
The first shock for the sons of Egypt’s former president when they arrived at Cairo’s notorious Tora prison, looking dazed according to witnesses, was having their mobile phones taken away. Then guards thrust rough regulation uniforms into their soft, manicured … read more