Egypt was set to raise mainstream fuel prices by up to 78 percent from midnight on Friday, an Oil Ministry source told Reuters, in a long-awaited step to cut energy subsidies to ease the burden on its swelling budget deficit. Food … read more
The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL) condemned the arrest of its spokesperson and leading member Magdy Qurqur, accusing authorities of exercising violence on public figures who share opposing views even when they express them through peaceful means. In a … read more
The number of injured people in a train blast that occurred in Alexandria on Thursday rose to nine. A bomb exploded late on Thursday night in a passenger car on a train on the Abu-Qir line. The bomb was planted … read more
Egypt’s Planning Minister Ashraf al-Arabi said on Wednesday the government was about to raise prices on most petroleum products, a move he said would push inflation into double digits. “We will raise energy prices within days,” he told Aswat Masriya, … read more
An improvised bomb exploded during the early hours of Thursday morning near the Air Force hospital in Cairo’s Abbasiya district, reported Al-Ahram Arabic’s news website. According to Al-Ahram, the bomb was planted in a car parked near the hospital. The … read more
Egyptian security forces dispersed on Thursday a protest staged by supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood on the anniversary of President Mohamed Mursi’s ouster. The protesters have blocked Haram road before the security forces fired teargas at them. Dozens of Brotherhood … read more
A bomb exploded near a mosque in Giza on Thursday morning, no causalities were reported, security sources told the state news agency MENA. The bomb squad moved immediately to the area of explosion to see whether it was caused by … read more
Israeli police forces arrested hundreds of African, mainly Eritrean, refugees on Sunday evening after two days of camping near the Israeli-Egyptian borders. Around 1,000 African asylum seekers had left the Holothuroidea Detention Facility in Israel on Friday, making their way … read more
Egypt’s wealthiest man, Nassef Sawiris, has been sentenced in absentia to three years in prison and fines worth LE50 million on charges of refraining from paying due checks to Egypt’s Tax Authority (ETA), sources at the authority told Ahram Online. … read more
In his speech on Monday at the opening of the Global Media Forum in the German capital Berlin, organized by Deutsche Welle, Bassem Youssef relayed his concerns for the future of Egypt under the military-led regime of newly-elected President Abdel Fattah … read more