Six people- including 4 police personnel- were injured after a bomb exploded in front of a police station in El-Waraq district in Giza governorate, a security source told Al-Ahram Arabic news website. A team of explosives experts have moved to … read more
Six people- including 4 police personnel- were injured on Thursday morning after a bomb exploded in front of a police station in El-Waraq district in Giza governorate, a security source told Al-Ahram Arabic news website. El-Waraq explosion marked the fourth … read more
A Cairo court scheduled the verdict date for the trial of former president Mohamed Mursi and 130 others for May 16, during a session on Wednesday. Brotherhood politician Mursi and the rest of the defendants face charges of murder and … read more
Australia on Wednesday imposed financial sanctions on the Egypt-based militant group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said in a statement that the sanctions accorded with a United Nations Security Council resolution on preventing and suppressing terrorist acts. Breaching … read more
Egypt is projected to become one of the 32 largest economies in the next 35 years, joining a list of newly-emerging and established emerging economies, according to a new report. The February 2015 report, “The World in 2050: Will the … read more
Egypt’s Finance Minister retracted on Tuesday an earlier decision regulating the allocation of money collected from a new tax on cigarette sales to the health budget. The minister issued a decision on Monday tasking the Tax Authority to allocate 50 … read more
A Cairo court acquitted former prime minister Ahmed Nazif and former Interior Minister Habib al-Adli of charges of wasting 92 million Egyptian pounds of public funds through irregularly procuring vehicle license plates, on Tuesday. Initially, a primary court had sentenced Nazif to … read more
The Cairo Criminal Court adjourned the Al Jazeera trial, involving journalists Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy, to 8 March in the session held at Tora Police Academy Monday. Defence lawyers for Fahmy and Baher demanded the postponement of the trial … read more
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said the Egyptian army is not an aggressor and does not invade foreign territory but only responds to attacks against it – in reference to recent airstrikes it carried out against Islamic State group targets in Libya. … read more
Egypt has raised sales taxes on cigarettes for the third time in a year, according to a presidential decree published in the country’s official gazette on Saturday. The most expensive cigarettes, such as Marlboro, currently priced at LE19.75 a pack … read more