An Egyptian armed group on Monday claimed responsibility for a deadly tourist bus blast in the Sinai resort city of Taba and gave tourists in the country four days to leave or they would be targeted. “As we promised, what’s … read more
“We cannot curb the feelings of resentment,” said a Monday statement by the South Korean Foreign Ministry in connection with its three dead and 14 injured nationals on the tourist bus targeted Sunday by a terrorist attack in the south … read more
Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat referred several leading Muslim Brotherhood figures including former deputy governor of Alexandria Hassan al-Brens and ex-parliamentarian Sobhi Saleh to Alexandria’s criminal court. The two were charged with murder, sabotage, violence, rioting and demonstrating. read more
Beyond the headlines of Sunday’s bomb blast on a bus carrying 33 tourists in the Red Sea resort town of Taba, which killed three South Koreans and the Egyptian bus driver, is the fact that the attack was the first … read more
The United Nations has strongly condemned the bombing of a bus carrying South Korean tourists which killed four and injured 15 others. The terrorist attack, which took place on Sunday near the Egyptian resort town of Taba, adjoining Israel, killed … read more
At least three people have been killed in an explosion on a tourist bus in Egypt’s Sinai region near the Israeli border, reports have said. read more
A Port Said criminal court sentenced two men to 15 years in prison on Sunday for the murder and sexual assault of a five-year-old girl. According to Article 122 of Egypt’s Child Law, the defendants, Mahmoud Mohamed Mahmoud, 17, and … read more
Death toll of the swine flu virus, known as H1N1, has reached 52 since December, out of 424 cases of infection, Health Ministry announced. In a statement on Saturday, the ministry said four patients have died from swine flu over … read more
Leading leftist figure Hamdeen Sabbahi, the only candidate so far in Egypt’s presidential elections, has invited army chief Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to take part in a live debate should the latter decided to run. Sabbahi, during his participation in Tahrir Salon … read more