Security forces rescued a cruise boat carrying 87 tourists in Luxor late Sunday night morning after part of its roof caught fire. No casualties or injuries were reported. The boat was transported to shore at Armant where it underwent inspections. … read more
The office of lawyer and former presidential candidate Khaled Ali has filed a lawsuit to establish slain member of the April 6 Youth Movement Gaber Salah, also known as Jika, as one of the revolution’s martyrs. The lawsuit, lodged at … read more
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday again pressed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to make concrete progress on economic reforms and rights, warning continued US and global aid was at stake. The Egyptians vowed that they had taken some … read more
The referral of amendments to the judicial authority law by the Shura Council to its Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committee is a formality, Minister of Justice Ahmed Suleiman stated late on Saturday. Speaking to Al-Ahram Arabic news website, Suleiman further … read more
Almost three years after an uprising fuelled by the old regime’s venality, Egypt’s cash-strapped Islamist government is making amends with businessmen who offer to pay their way back into the fold. The presidency, strapped to a free falling economy, has … read more
Libyan authorities on Wednesday deported 238 Egyptian workers, including 28 fishermen, claiming that they had entered the country illegally. Elanani Hammouda, head of security in Egypt’s Marsa Matrouh governorate (adjacent to the Libyan border), said he had received a complaint … read more
Amnesty International has criticised what it describes as the continuity of torture in Egypt and a failure to punish those responsible for abuses. In its annual Egypt report, the human rights group that said torture policies, discrimination and impunity from … read more
Egyptian resentment toward US government policies may be justified – but this doesn’t make Egypt a dangerous place for Americans, Christopher Stone, the American scholar stabbed outside the US embassy in Cairo earlier this month, told Ahram Online. His attacker, … read more
Assiut Criminal Court has sentenced five to death and another to 10 years prison for killing a priest and stealing his money and golden jewelry. The five were accused of intentionally killing the priest in his home using a knives … read more
Following a long established rapport, Egypt-US relations have increasingly come under the spotlight in the post-revolution period. Ahram Online gains further insight in an exclusive interview with US Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson. Hidden behind high concrete walls in Cairo’s … read more