The family of Egyptian victim Saleh al-Gebaly, who was killed during last Friday’s Paris attacks, has complained of the Egyptian government and Foreign Ministry’s disregard to their demand to return Gebaly’s body to Egypt for burial. “No official has offered … read more
A bomb that downed a Russian plane in Egypt last month had been placed in the aircraft’s main cabin not in the cargo compartment as reported earlier, the daily Kommersant said on Wednesday citing an unnamed source. The newspaper, citing … read more
Two airport workers have been arrested in Sharm el Sheikh on suspicion of helping those responsible for the attack on Metrojet Flight 9268. Egyptian security officials say they have detained two employees of Sharm el Sheikh International Airport accused of … read more
The Kremlin said for the first time on Tuesday that a bomb had ripped apart a Russian passenger jet over Egypt last month and promised to hunt down those responsible and intensify its air strikes on Islamist militants in Syria … read more
The Kremlin said for the first time on Tuesday that a bomb did bring down a Russian passenger plane that crashed over the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt on Oct. 31, killing all 224 people on board. “One can unequivocally say … read more
Egyptian citizen Salah Emad al-Gebaly was killed in one of the six coordinated attacks that shook Paris Friday night, said Egypt’s Consul in France Serenade Gamil late Sunday. It is believed that Gebaly was among the victims of the Bataclan … read more
A total of 77 international and domestic flights are scheduled to land at Hurghada airport Sunday, official source at the airport told Youm7 Sunday. As many as 3,500 tourists will arrive Hurghada airport on board of 23 flights from Germany, … read more
Egypt‘s revaluation of the pound this week has raised expectations of a major shift in how it manages a long-running currency crisis, with evidence growing that the central bank may be preparing for a more flexible exchange rate mechanism. Economists, especially those … read more
Part of the Cockpit Voice Recorder content of the ill-fated Russian plane will be moved abroad for an analysis of the sound heard in the last second of the recording before the crash, Aviation Minister Hossam Kamal told Al Ahram … read more
The ramifications on Egypt’s tourism sector of the Russian jet crash late October have been colossal politically, but the economic toll of the incident is a more immediate concern with projections of billions of pounds in lost revenue. Tourism was … read more