Egypt ranks second among the Arab world as a destination for international students, according to UNESCO statistics. Coming after the United Arab Emirates within the Arab world, Egypt ranks the 19th among the top 20 destinations for international students. The … read more
The Administrative Court decided on Monday to issue a verdict in 10 lawsuits demanding the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) on 6 August. A number of lawyers had filed lawsuits demanding the FJP’s dissolution. They … read more
Egyptian troops on Sunday killed 11 militant fighters in shoot-outs in the border Sinai Peninsula, where an Islamist insurgency is burgeoning, the army said on Monday. On Sunday, a six-year-old child was killed and four others wounded when a mortar … read more
Up to 100 British tourists have fallen ill after a sickness bug swept through an Egyptian holiday resort. Several were still on intravenous drips in their hotel rooms last night at the four-star Coral Sea Waterworld complex. Angry holidaymakers blamed … read more
Air Sina, a subsidiary of EgyptAir, on Sunday resumed flights between Cairo and Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv after a 10-day hiatus due to clashes between the Palestinians in Gaza and Israel. Flight 054 took off with 36 passengers after … read more
Security forces raided an orphanage in the Haram neighborhood in Giza Sunday, following a video on social media showing a man beating children, which activists condemned while accusing the orphanage director of child abuse. The two-minute video showed a man … read more
The foreign ministry described a comment by a United States State Department spokeswoman as “sheer fantasy” after she said that Egypt used US weapons “against their own people”. Deputy Spokeswoman for the state Department Marie Harf was asked during a … read more
The Health Ministry has declared Egypt free of any cases of the deadly Ebola virus. In a statement on Saturday, the ministry said, “The rate of deaths of patients infected with the virus have reached 60 percent.” It added that several … read more
Egypt has increased the amount of electricity it provides to Gaza and urged Israel to repair power lines damaged during Israeli bombardment that has left at least one million people without electricity, an Egyptian official said on Saturday. The official … read more
