A high school student was shot dead Wednesday night when supporters and opponents of toppled Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi clashed in the city of Suez, east of Cairo, security sources said. Eyewitnesses told state news agency MENA pro-Morsi demonstrators initiated … read more
The Egyptian cabinet passed on Wednesday a law, proposed by the presidency, that criminalizes disrespecting the national flag and not honoring the national anthem. read more
Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou has said that 13 countries have now lifted travel bans to Egypt. The latest two countries, Austria and Ireland, lifted bans to holiday destinations in the Red Sea and South Sinai on Wednesday. A number of … read more
A Cairo prosecution office on Wednesday ordered the arrest of former information minister Salah Abdel-Maqsoud. He is accused of involvement in the theft of two TV broadcast vehicles during the pro-Morsi Rabaa Al-Adawiya sit-in in Cairo’s Nasr City that took … read more
Egypt’s national council for childhood and motherhood filed a complaint on Wednesday asking the general prosecution to investigate the case of a schoolgirl allegedly beaten by her teacher, Egypt’s state news agency Mena reported. Last week, 12-year-old schoolgirl Marina Guirguis … read more
Eight Egyptian school children and their teacher were killed in a Cairo road accident on Wednesday when their vehicle collided with a truck, police said. The truck flipped over in the high speed crash and landed on the vehicle transporting … read more
Clashes erupted on Tuesday between Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated students and anti-MB protesters in Mansoura University. The two groups hurled stones against each other due to conflicts over an exhibition on 6 October war. Sources from the university said the student hospital … read more
Egyptian workers who mobilised during the 2011 uprising that toppled the regime of Hosni Mubarak have used the past two and a half years to organise into unions, press for labour reforms, and strike for better wages and working conditions.But … read more
A leftist faction in the National Salvation Front (NSF) has proposed supporting a presidential bid by Hamdeen Sabbahi, but the front as a whole has not decided on a candidate, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported on Tuesday. At a meeting … read more
European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton arrived in Cairo late on Tuesday, in a visit to promote reconciliation between Egypt’s interim administration and the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported. On previous visits, Ashton and other Western envoys … read more