The Central Administration of Preventive Medicine affiliated with the General Organization for Veterinary Services discovered during last week six infection spots of the foot-and-mouth virus in Gharbia, Asyut and Sharqia governorates. read more
Egypt’s police has apprehended seven suspects it says are Muslim Brotherhood members accused of administrating anti-police and anti-military Facebook pages. Al-Ahram’s Arabic news website reported that the interior ministry electronically tracked the subjects who are now facing charges that include … read more
Major General Ibrahim Abdel Aaty, the doctor heading the team that invented the device, which supposedly cures patients of AIDS and Hepatitis C virus, said he was offered US$2 billion to sell it abroad but he refused. In a TV … read more
Broadcaster Al Jazeera called for vigils outside Egyptian embassies across the world on Thursday to press Egypt to free four of its journalists, three of whom have been charged with aiding a “terrorist organization”. The three from al Jazeera’s English-language … read more
An Egyptian female student who has recently been released from prison said she was subjected to sexual harassment at the hands of the security personnel. Ayat Hamada, who had been arrested over her participation in a protest at Al-Azhar University, … read more
An Egyptian court sentenced 26 people to death on Wednesday for plotting attacks on ships passing through the Suez Canal, judicial source said. The defendants were tried in absentia. An Islamist insurgency has gained momentum since the army overthrew president … read more
Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi was reappointed on Wednesday as Minister of Defence by new Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb, who was tasked with forming a new cabinet by interim President Adly Mansour. Mehleb met with each minister and they addressed … read more
Germany’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday it strongly advised against travel to all regions of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Previously the ministry had made a warning against travel in the north of the Sinai peninsula and the Egyptian-Israeli border area as … read more
Last October, political scientist Hassan Nafaa sent a proposal to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) detailing how the government could broker a truce with the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist allies and put a stop to the … read more
The Muslim Brotherhood in Shubra el-Kheima issued a statement early Wednesday threatening the bombing of the Shubra el-Kheima Second Police Station if security does not release detained girls and women arrested late Tuesday. read more