A British airliner traveling from Britain to the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheikh made an emergency landing at Athens airport on Monday after receiving a bomb threat. All 213 passengers and crew aboard the Thomson Airways Boeing aircraft are safe … read more
Egyptian authorities are probing a football match riot which left nine people injured on Saturday night in the Cairo Stadium, Egyptian media reported on Monday. Egypt’s ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has ordered a probe into the accident, … read more
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s largest Islamist group, is facing a generation gap. Repressed and jailed during President Hosni Mubark’s regime, the movement now has the freedom to organize a legal political party. But a youth wing is challenging the … read more
Egypt has frozen the bank accounts of several former officials and their families, as part of the anti-corruption campaign since the ouster of president Hosni Mubarak. The officials include former speaker of the Shoura Council Safwat el-Sherif, former speaker of … read more
Gunmen kidnapped a grandniece of Anwar Sadat and demanded a ransom. In one southern city, robbers didn’t bother to wait until dark to target pedestrians. In another, a brawl between two school children led to a gunbattle that killed five. … read more
Traffic through Egypt’s Suez Canal resumed Sunday evening; it had been partially disrupted for a period of three hours due to a grounded ship. The blockage occurred when a 42,000-ton container ship ran aground due to engine failure. The ship … read more
Officials of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s leading Islamic group, have called for the establishment of a Saudi-style modesty police to combat “immoral” behavior in public areas in what observers say in another sign of a growing Islamic self-confidence in the … read more
Egyptian prosecutors opened their most high-profile corruption trial yet yesterday, charging the country’s former housing minister with sponsoring a corrupt land deal, worth hundreds of millions of dirhams, that was allegedly brokered by an Emirati businessman. The opening day of … read more
World-renowned Egyptian archeologist and former head of the country’s Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass has been renamed Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities, Press TV reported. Hawass resigned earlier in March saying that he was leaving because the Egyptian Army could … read more
Egypt’s ousted president Hosny Mubarak had not left for Germany despite a media report to the contrary, an official Egyptian source told the German Press Agency dpa on Sunday. The Qatar-based Al Jazeera broadcaster had earlier reported that Mubarak had … read more