Al-Masry Al-Youm Opinion in parliament has split over a Citizenship bill presented by MP Alaa Abdel Moneim containing an article abolishing the listing of citizens’ religion on national ID cards, to be discussed next Saturday. Parliamentary sources said that Ossama … read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent tour of the Nile Basin provoked a storm of comments which ranged between shock by the obviousness of the successful Israeli encirclement in the Nile Basin to feelings of astonishment, indignation and perplexity towards … read more
A delegation from the British House of Commons — the lower house of parliament — arrives in Sharm el-Sheikh on Friday to support tourism in Egypt and stress the return of stability and security, Youm7 reported Friday. Sir Gerald Howarth, … read more
Egypt’s official statistics agency said on Tuesday that the Egyptian poverty line stands at an income of LE5,787.9 annually and LE482 monthly, 48 per cent higher than in 2012/2013. About 27.8 per cent of the Egyptian population is currently living … read more
By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday praised warming relations with Egypt and its president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who ousted an Islamist government seen as hostile to ties between the neighbours. Egypt was the … read more
Former top auditor Hisham Geneina was sentenced to one year in prison by the Cairo Misdemeanour Court on Thursday. Geneina did not attend the session on Thursday, for the third time in a row. The court ordered him to pay … read more
(Reuters) – Egyptian investigators said on Thursday they had raided 10 foreign exchange bureaus in Cairo after an inquiry found they were illegally trading foreign currency at black market rates. A statement from the Public Funds Investigation unit said it … read more
Two Ethiopian asylum seekers allegedly set themselves on fire Tuesday in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office located in 6th October City. While information surrounding the situation remains unclear, the incidents reportedly took place as … read more
Israel has handed over materials that it claims are probably wreckage from an EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on May 19, with the loss of 66 lives. The materials arrived at Cairo International Airport on Thursday in … read more
Informed sources disclosed Monday that a five-member British parliamentary delegation will visit Egypt between 25 and 30 July to discuss a number of security and economic issues. The delegation, led by Gerald Howarth — a member of the UK House … read more