By THE CAIRO POST CAIRO: The U.S. embassy in Cairo has ordered that all of its staff refrain from traveling to the Sinai peninsula pending the results of a plane that crashed Saturday morning, it announced Monday on its website. … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm The Secretary of the Arab Environmental Experts Association, Magdy Allam, has warned of expected earthquakes in the Mediterranean Sea which may result in tsunamis affecting Egypt. Some coastal areas, especially in the Delta, are already being threatened with … read more
A Russian aviation official said that the Russian plane that crashed in the Sinai desert on Saturday was destroyed in mid-air, as a deadline for the search operations at the site of the fatal crash nears expiry, a Russian minister … read more
A Russian airliner returning from a popular resort town in Egypt crashed shortly after takeoff on Saturday, killing all 224 people aboard, officials said. The plane, an Airbus A321 operated by the small airline Kogalymavia, crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula … read more
Emirates Airlines said it would avoid flying over Egypt’s Sinai peninsula,where a Russian-operated jet went down on Saturday, becoming the third carrier to shun that route until more is known on the cause of the crash, which killed all 224 … read more
Claims that a Russian airliner which crashed in Egypt was shot down by terrorists “can’t be considered accurate”, Russia’s Minister of Transport Maxim Sokolov told the Interfax news agency on Saturday. “Now in various media there is assorted information that … read more
A total of 19,835 Egyptian voters cast their votes abroad in the first phase run-offs of Egypt’s legislative elections, according to the Supreme Elections Commission (SEC) Thursday. This brings the turnout rate to just under 3 percent, a drop from … read more
Violations by parliamentary candidates, which marked the first and second round of elections in October in 14 governorates, seem to have increased in a series of electoral bribes, illegal campaigning and attempts to influence voters’ opinions. Four members of the … read more
Run-offs of phase one of Egypt’s House of Representatives elections saw a low turnout in most provinces inside Egypt Tuesday, and abroad where voting started on Monday. The scant showing at the polls was no surprise with the turnout barely … read more
AP Toll revenues for Egypt’s Suez Canal have fallen so far this year compared to last, dampening hopes that a newly built parallel waterway will boost the economy in the immediate future. While the canal’s much-hyped extension was one of … read more