A former aide to ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsy of the Muslim Brotherhood Islamist movement was released on Sunday for health reasons after 18 months in detention without charge, relatives said. Khaled al-Qazzaz, Morsy’s former foreign affairs secretary, was arrested … read more
A woman was killed and another was injured when a building partially collapsed in the coastal city of Alexandria on Sunday, the state news agency MENA reported. The ceiling of the last floor of the three-storey building collapsed, causing the … read more
An Egyptian court has sentenced a student to three years in jail for announcing on Facebook that he is an atheist and for insulting Islam, his lawyer said Sunday. Karim El-Banna, a 21-year-old whose own father testified against him, was … read more
Twenty-six Egyptian men were found innocent of debauchery after being arrested for allegedly holding gay orgies in a Cairo bath house. Police had raided the bathhouse after receiving a tip from television journalist Mona El-Iraqi who claimed on her show … read more
Unknown gunmen attacked a checkpoint in Giza on Sunday at dawn, injuring three policemen, according to the Ministry of Interior. Two other attacks took place in Giza last week. On 6 January, a bomb was found in front of Al-Talbeya … read more
Ahmed Abdel Aal, chairman of Meteorology Authority, said that Egypt would see gradual improvement in weather conditions starting Sunday. In press remarks on Saturday, Abdel Aal said amounts of clouds are expected to decline, so there would be larger intervals … read more
The Egyptian pound was unchanged at a central bank dollar sale on Sunday and slightly stronger on the black market. The bank offered $40 million at the sale and said it had sold $38.4 million at a cut-off price of … read more
The Muslim Brotherhood launched calls on Friday and Saturday for protests ahead of 25 January, which will mark the fourth anniversary of the 2011 revolution, according to their representative Freedom and Justice Party (FJP). The FJP reported Saturday that numerous … read more
Foreign Minister Sameh Shokry flew Sunday morning to Paris to attend a silent march called for by the French presidency to condemn the bloody armed attack that killed 12, mainly journalists, last Wednesday. French President Francois Hollande had called for … read more
Residents of North Sinai’s Sheikh Zuweid found on Saturday the bodies of two decapitated youths, police sources said. The sources, who preferred to remain anonymous, said the decapitated youths belong to a renowned tribe in Sheikh Zuweid. The bodies were … read more