The Ministry of Religious Endowments reputedly closed a small mosque in Alexandria which was scheduled to host Salafist preacher Abdel Moneim Al-Shahat, spokesperson for the ultraconservative Salafist Call organisation, to give the Friday sermon and lead the prayers. The Endowments sector … read more
Egypt’s Minister of Defence Sedky Sobhi met on Thursday in Cairo with General Joseph Votel, the head of the US Central Command, to discuss the latest efforts to fight terrorism and restore order, stability and security in the Middle East … read more
(Aswat Masriya) – President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi praised and congratulated on Friday Egyptian champions who earned medals at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Egyptian athletes won three bronze medals at the ongoing Olympic Games in Brazil; Sara Samir clinched a bronze in the … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm The Administrative Control Authority in New Valley governorate announced on Tuesday the arrest of the head of the governorate’s construction authority on corruption charges. Abdel Badie Ahmed Suleiman was arrested while allegedly taking a bribe of LE320,000 from … read more
Egypt’s Hedaya Malak won the bronze medal in the women’s Taekwondo -57kg category after beating Raheleh Asemani of Belgium by the golden kick early on Friday. After three scoreless two-minute rounds, Malak won by a golden kick in the fourth … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm Ninty percent of male and female presenters with Maspero’s Regional Channels Sector are overweight and have been granted a three-month deadline by which to slim down, according to the sector’s chairman, Hany Gaafar. The department includes eight state-run … read more
Reuters Desperate to elude roving financial police and fearful of new jail terms for black-market money-changing, Egypt’s currency traders are driving with bags of cash to meet clients in discreet locations around the vast capital Cairo. “The company I used … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm A team of Egyptian doctors from the Southern Egypt Cancer Institute have removed a cancerous tumor weighing 38 kg from the belly of a 70-year old woman. Surgeons operated on Wednesday after the woman presented with a three-year … read more
Gold’s Gym, the world’s leading authority on health and fitness, has moved to terminate the contract of an Egyptian franchise after the latter posted online what was deemed a body-shaming ad. A sub-franchise of the popular international gym in Cairo, … read more
Prosecutors appealed on Tuesday a verdict acquitting former president Mohamed Morsi of espionage in the so-called “Qatar espionage case,” Aswat Masryia reported. Although Morsi was found innocent in June of espionage, he received 40 years in prison on charges of … read more