A Chinese man was found alive under the rubble of a three-storey building that partially collapsed in the Cairo district of El-Daher on Sunday. The man was found during a six-hour rescue operation by the Egyptian Civil Defence Authority following … read more
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has arrived at court to hear if he will be released from prison. Defence lawyer Fareed El-Dib submitted a memorandum stating his client had already spent two years in provisional detention, which is the maxium … read more
Forty-one student movements from public and private Egyptian universities protest Saturday against the ministry of higher education after several crises arose in universities across the country. Hundreds of students began marching from Cairo University and reached the ministry of higher … read more
An Egyptian faculty of education graduate worked as a doctor at Mansoura University’s Emergency Hospital for four months. Police found out that he is not actually a doctor after a female patient accused him of sexually molesting her. The true … read more
Unidentified attackers fired at policemen manning a checkpoint on the Ahmed Hamdy Tunnel-Sharm el-Sheikh Road near Wadi Feiran, 50 kilometers west of St. Katherine and 60 kilometers away from Tor in South Sinai, a police source told MENA. Police exchanged … read more
Judge Mostafa Hassan Abdullah of the Cairo Criminal Court overseeing Mubarak’s murder retrial has recused himself on Saturday and referred the case to the Cairo Appeal Court. “This is in line with the demands of the Lawyers’ Union Lagnat Horreyat … read more
Farid El-Dib, lawyer to deposed president Hosni Mubarak, expressed he has not heard any words of hostility spoken by Mubarak against current President Mohamed Morsi, adding that he rarely comments on current events in Egypt. In an appearance on “60 … read more
Military police arrested a 22-year-old man in Mansoura on Thursday on charges of impersonating an officer of the Armed Forces. The youth allegedly dressed up in an army lieutenant’s uniform in an attempt to persuade his love interest to marry … read more
President Mohamed Morsy issued a decree in late March that increased custom duties on 100 luxury products, an unsurprising move as the country struggles to boost revenues and shrink its widening budget deficit. Food products such as pineapples, caviar, shrimp, … read more
Armed Bedouin tribesmen freed a Hungarian peacekeeper in Egypt’s Sinai after briefly detaining him on Thursday to press for the release of a jailed relative, police officials said. The Bedouin set the soldier free after tribal leaders intervened, and the … read more