Egypt’s GB Auto aims to invest $1.5 billion to build two new factories, its chief executive said, in a vote of confidence for the country’s political stability. Political turmoil has hammered Egypt’s economy since an uprising toppled Hosni Mubarak in … read more
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has attended the Coptic Christmas mass to mark the first attendance ever made by an Egyptian president to the religious occasion. El-Sisi arrived at Saint Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo’s Abbasiya district during the mass … read more
The Sohag Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced the former deputy sheriff of the Saqalta Police Station to three years in prison, another police officer and two police corporals to life imprisonment in absentia, and eight other policemen to 10 years, … read more
The trial of Irish teenager Ibrahim Halawa, of Egyptian descent, will take place on Monday in a court at Tora Prison, the Irish Times reported. Halawa, a student at the Institute of Education in Dublin, according to the newspaper, has … read more
Business activity in Egypt expanded at its fastest rate in three months in December, a survey showed on Tuesday, with rising output and export demand bolstering a fragile economic recovery. The HSBC Egypt Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) for the non-oil private sector rose to 51.4 points … read more
Unknown gunmen shot and killed, on Tuesday, two Egyptian policemen guarding a church in southern Egypt, Al-Ahram’s Arabic news website reported. The incident took place just a day before Egyptian Coptic Christians are due to celebrate their Christmas. Security sources told Al-Ahram that the two men were … read more
Cairo (AFP) – Czech archaeologists have unearthed the tomb of a previously unknown queen believed to have been the wife of Pharaoh Neferefre who ruled 4,500 years ago, officials in Egypt said Sunday. The tomb was discovered in Abu Sir, … read more
Four Egyptian policemen were wounded on Monday by a bomb in the volatile Sinai Peninsula, security sources said. The explosive was planted at the entrance of an apartment building in the provincial capital of al-Arish, said the sources. Security forces face a … read more
The US Embassy in Cairo confirmed Sunday the reported death of an American woman in the city of Mahalla in the northern Egyptian governorate of Gharbeya. “We have been informed by the police that she has been found dead. The … read more
TV host Mahmoud Saad showed on Saturday a video that he described as ‘catastrophic’ showing unclean kitchens in restaurants with insects, flies and mice everywhere. In his talk show aired on privately-owned Al-Nahar TV channel, Saad said he obtained the … read more