A 10-year-old girl was killed on Wednesday when an explosive device detonated outside her school in Fayoum south of Cairo, a top security official said. Fayoum Security Director Younis Omar el-Gaher told Aswat Masriya that he was notified of the … read more
The number of tourists arriving in Egypt in January stood at 677.5, marking a 5.5 percent increase from those who landed in the country during the same time last year, the state’s Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) … read more
Street cleaners from the AMA Arab company have been on strike for two weeks, protesting against the layoffs and salary reductions, leaving piles of garbage in the streets of the northern and western parts of Cairo, particularly in Shubra and … read more
Ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi will face court on May 23 alongside 24 others for the charge of insulting the judiciary, an appeals court announced on Wednesday. Mursi and the 24 other defendants were referred to criminal court in January … read more
In an alleged leaked document from the Egyptian Cabinet entitled “urgent-top secret,” the government asks the minister of agriculture to hunt down “sleeper-cells” of the Muslim Brotherhood at the ministry and to train staff on security tasks “to overcome the … read more
Hours after interviewing Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the Wall Street Journal’s deputy chief editor said it was wrong to describe the Egyptian leader as a dictator, but rather a man with wide-scale popularity. “He (Sisi) is not a dictator, … read more
The Egyptian Meteorological Authority is expecting moderate weather on Wednesday on the north coast and Cairo, and hotter weather in the rest of the country during the daytime, cool at night. Mist is expected in the morning on the north … read more
An IED, planted by unidentified assailants, exploded Monday in front of the house of one of the judges who acquitted Mubarak-era Interior Minister Habib al-Adly from illegal gains charges. The bomb exploded outside the house of judge Fatehy Bayoumy in … read more
Egypt has agreed to pay Germany-based DEA 40 percent more for the natural gas it extracts in the Nile Delta Desouk region, the oil ministry said on Monday. The agreement marks the latest move by Egyptian authorities to improve terms … read more
An Egyptian leftist activist shot by police with birdshot in January died “because she was too slim,” a spokesman for the forensic medicine authority said on Saturday. Hisham Abdel-Hamid said that the 33-year-old Shaimaa El-Shabagh had “no fats, so [birdshot] … read more