Cairo appeals court reduced on Saturday the sentence of 8 men, accused of “debauchery”, to one-year in prison instead of the three-years they were given in November. The men convicted were shown in a video appearing to take part in a … read more
A policeman was killed and another was injured when unidentified assailants shot at security forces outside a police station in Alexandria on Sunday, a security source said. The source told Aswat Masriya that the two policemen were “combing the area … read more
Egyptian prosecutors referred Friday journalist and writer Fatima Naoot to a misdemeanors court on charges of disdaining religion, after she was critical of the Muslim Eid Al-Adha tradition of slaughtering sheep. The trial will start 28 January. In October, Naoot … read more
Five workers were killed on Saturday when a scaffold collapsed in the Sinai Cement factory in central Sinai, state-run MENA quoted health ministry deputy in North Sinai as saying. Ambulance cars rushed to the collapse site to transfer the injured workers, … read more
Eight people were killed Friday morning in a road accident involving multiple vehicles near the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, a health ministry spokesperson has said. Twenty eight others were wounded in the accident, Hossam Abdel Ghaffar told Ahram Online. … read more
Two armed men were killed, three police personnel and two civilians were injured in a crossfire on the outskirts of Cairo early Friday, a security source said. The incident took place between a security partol and the assailants in Madinat … read more
At least two people were killed and 11 others were injured in a major accident on a highway near Cairo on Thursday morning. Ten vehicles crashed around 40 kilometres outside the capital on the Cairo-Alexandria desert highway, Al-Ahram Arabic news … read more
A five-year-old Egyptian child died from bird flu on Wednesday, the tenth death from the virus in the country out of 22 identified cases this year, the Health Ministry said. Ministry spokesman Dr Hossam Abdel Ghaffar said the boy came to a hospital in … read more
Tattooing is a practice that dates back to the birth of civilisation – the mummy of Amunet from Ancient Egypt is said to have be inked. Fast forward several thousand years to the present, and the ever-changing personality that surrounds … read more
An Egyptian jihadist group released video footage on Tuesday that it said showed the execution of two army informants in the insurgent flashpoint of the Sinai Peninsula. Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the country’s deadliest militant group which has pledged allegiance to … read more