Al-Masry Al-Youm The Tourism Promotion Authority said in a statement Monday that Luxor airport received the first Japanese flight on a Boeing 338 b777 aircraft, carrying 230 passengers to visit the cities of Luxor, Aswan and Cairo. The flight is the … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) has declared that the number of Egyptian children below the age of 18 years has reached 33.3 million children, representing 36.6 percent of the total population by the end … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm First Lady Intisar al-Sisi led a campaign on Sunday to collect donations for the “Tahya Misr” (Long Live Egypt) Fund to support the financing of projects carried out by the fund. The first lady was accompanied by Minister … read more
A child was killed and another was seriously injured on Saturday after a football rigged with an explosive device detonated in an apartment in Cairo’s Manshiyat Nasser, Egypt’s interior ministry said in a statement. The ministry said the improvised explosive … read more
The German Embassy in Cairo on Saturday launched “German Week in Upper Egypt” in Luxor with the attendance of German ambassador in Cairo Julius George Luy and Local Development Minister Ahmed Zaki Badr. The launch began with the inauguration of … read more
AP Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has praised U.S. President-elect Donald J. Trump, saying that his inflammatory statements from the campaign trail do not necessarily reflect the actions he will take as president. Sisi, in an interview with Portuguese news agency … read more
AP An international rights group has warned of a new Egyptian bill to regulate civil society, saying that the proposed law amounts to a “death warrant” for relevant organizations. In a strongly-worded statement, London-based Amnesty International urged President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi … read more
Islamic State (IS)-affiliated militant group “Sinai Province” published on Friday evening photos that allegedly depict the beheading of two elderly men, which they claim are priests, in an unknown desert area in North Sinai. The photos were released on the … read more
(Aswat Masriya) – EgyptAir announced that the ticket prices of its international flights will be pegged to the dollar, its chairman Safwat Mosallam said in a press conference on Thursday. “The cost of international flights is paid in US dollars, which will be … read more
(Aswat Masriya) – Egyptian ambassador to the UK Nasser Kamel blamed Prime Minister Theresa May for obstructing the resumption of flights to Sharm El-Sheikh. Kamel told BBC Radio 4 programme on Friday that Egypt has done its part in upgrading … read more