Nearly two dozen male school pupils were arrested Tuesday in the southern city of Sohag for sexually harassing female classmates, Al-Ahram’s Arabic website reported on Tuesday. The 23 pupils harassed the girls during end-of-year examinations taking place at their secondary … read more
Unidentified assailants fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a police installation early on Tuesday in the restive Sinai Peninsula, Al-Ahram’s Arabic news website reported. Residents of Al-Arish border city in the North Sinai Governorate heard an explosion as gunmen attacked the … read more
Spanish archeologists discovered a new tomb in South Aswan, believed to date back to the era known as the Late Period in Ancient Egyptian history, circa 664-332 B.C., Minister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim announced Sunday. The tomb contains nine coffins … read more
Egypt‘s elections committee rejected on Sunday a defeated presidential candidate’s appeal against voting results that gave former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi a landslide victory, judicial sources said. Leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi only got 3 percent of the votes in … read more
The Presidential Elections Commission (PEC) will review appeals against the electoral process by leftist contender Hamdeen Sabahi on Sunday. PEC received challenges against the presidential election’s provisional results from the legal advisor for Sabahi’s campaign on Saturday. Sabahi questioned the … read more
Egypt’s Health Ministry said on Saturday that eleven Aswan residents have been diagnosed with Malaria but are in stable condition. The ministry added that the cases are receiving treatment at an Aswan hospital and will be released starting Sunday, the … read more
The Meteorological Authority expected hot weather in Egypt Saturday except for the northern shores where a gentle weather was predicted. Low and medium clouds are expected on the norther shores. Light rain might fall on South Sinai and the northern … read more
In a few days interim President Adly Mansour will leave the presidential palace to his residence after a one-year tenure, to be Egypt’s first president to leave office not through assassination, ousting or imprisonment. Mansour, a Menoufia native, is the head of … read more
Ten people were wounded in clashes that erupted across Egypt on Friday, the Health Ministry has said. Two people were wounded in Cairo, two in Fayoum and six in Suez, the ministry said, adding that they were taken to a … read more
Bomb squads defused two home-made bombs found in Cairo’s Nasr City on Friday morning, the Middle East News Agency reported. Civil Defence received a notification from residents on Abdel Razek al-Sanhouri Street saying that two unidentified objects were found on … read more