Do you think you’ve seen it all? Well, you’re mistaken. Normally, news organisations do keep a consistent, logical and meaningful line of thought that results in coverage that keeps the public well informed and entertained. It seems that Al-Jazeera begs … read more
An Egyptian prosecutor decided on Tuesday to release Refaa al-Tahtawi, head of the deposed president’s office on account of being excluded from investigations regarding the violence that erupted near the Ittihadiya presidential palace last December, reported the state-owned news agency. … read more
Egyptian authorities will bar 55,000 unlicensed clerics from preaching in mosques in the latest move against sympathisers of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, the minister of religious endowments said on Tuesday. Egyptian authorities have been cracking down on Mursi’s Muslim … read more
Fifteen people were arrested for their alleged involvement in an armed car hijack on cofounder and spokesman of Tamarod (Rebel) campaign Mahmoud Badr, a security source told state news agency MENA early on Tuesday. Badr, who also currently sits on … read more
Egypt’s annual urban headline inflation fell to 9.7 percent in the twelve months to August 2013, down from 10.3 percent a month earlier, figures from the Central Agency for Statistics and Mobilisation (CAPMAS) showed on Tuesday. The overall inflation rate … read more
Egypt’s military says it has seized caches of weapons in a Sinai operation including a mortar apparently belonging to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group in neighboring Gaza. The military has launched a sweeping offensive in the north of the peninsula … read more
Qatar agreed on Monday to convert a $2 billion deposit with Egypt’s central bank into bonds within a week, Youm 7 newspaper quoted central bank governor Hisham Ramez as saying. The conversion was thrown into doubt last week when a … read more
The Nour Party has said that former Muslim Brotherhood leader Kamal El-Helbawi, who is a member of the constitution-drafting committee, does not speak for Islamists. The Salafist party announced on Monday that it will demand that El-Helbawi not be defined … read more
Justice Minister Adel Abdel Hamid on Monday granted the president of the Petroleum Authority and his aides the legal power of arrest in order to tighten control of gas stations and reduce smuggling of diesel and gasoline. Petroleum Minister Sherif … read more
Mahmoud Badr, the founder of Tamarod, the Egyptian youth movement that rallied street protests against ousted President Mohammad Mursi, survived assassination attempt on Monday: Al Arabiya correspondent reported from Cairo. Tamarod’s official website reported that gunmen opened fire at his … read more