A jihadi website circulated photos Monday of kidnapped Christians, allegedly released by the Islamic State’s branch in Libya. It is still unclear whether the captives are the Coptic Egyptians who went missing in Libya earlier this month. So-called State of … read more
British Minister for the Middle East and North Africa announced on Tuesday the launch of his country’s largest trade mission to Egypt in over 10 years, ahead of an economic conference Egypt has scheduled for March. Speaking at a business … read more
Egypt’s security forces found early Tuesday the dead body of an officer kidnapped in North Sinai two days ago, the armed forces spokesman said. Unidentified gunmen kidnapped on Sunday police officer Ayman al-Desouki, who worked at the Rafah border-crossing. Security … read more
Egypt’s Court of Cassation ordered on Tuesday a retrial for former President Hosni Mubarak over embezzlement charges for which he has been convicted last year. The case was referred to the Cairo Court of Appeals, which will schedule a retrial … read more
A former aide to ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsy of the Muslim Brotherhood Islamist movement was released on Sunday for health reasons after 18 months in detention without charge, relatives said. Khaled al-Qazzaz, Morsy’s former foreign affairs secretary, was arrested … read more
A woman was killed and another was injured when a building partially collapsed in the coastal city of Alexandria on Sunday, the state news agency MENA reported. The ceiling of the last floor of the three-storey building collapsed, causing the … read more
An Egyptian court has sentenced a student to three years in jail for announcing on Facebook that he is an atheist and for insulting Islam, his lawyer said Sunday. Karim El-Banna, a 21-year-old whose own father testified against him, was … read more
Twenty-six Egyptian men were found innocent of debauchery after being arrested for allegedly holding gay orgies in a Cairo bath house. Police had raided the bathhouse after receiving a tip from television journalist Mona El-Iraqi who claimed on her show … read more
Unknown gunmen attacked a checkpoint in Giza on Sunday at dawn, injuring three policemen, according to the Ministry of Interior. Two other attacks took place in Giza last week. On 6 January, a bomb was found in front of Al-Talbeya … read more
Ahmed Abdel Aal, chairman of Meteorology Authority, said that Egypt would see gradual improvement in weather conditions starting Sunday. In press remarks on Saturday, Abdel Aal said amounts of clouds are expected to decline, so there would be larger intervals … read more