US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel spoke with Egyptian Defense Minister Colonel General Sedki Sobhy on Saturday to confirm the United States plans to deliver 10 Apache helicopters to Egypt to support Cairo’s counter-terrorism efforts, the Pentagon said. The United States … read more
A number of pharmaceutical companies have stopped the production of several varieties of drugs due to the high cost of production prices compared to the drugs’ selling prices on market, said former President of the Pharmaceuticals Export Council Awad Gabr. … read more
The cabinet’s economic committee has studied and revised the tariffs for electricity generated by renewable energy, Egypt’s Electricity Minister Mohamed Shaker said on Saturday, announcing the awaited tariff. The tariff was divided into five segments, Shaker said, starting from 84.8 … read more
Egypt will end daylight saving time (DST) on Thursday 25 at midnight, the cabinet said in a statement on Saturday. The clock will be moved one hour backward on Thursday midnight, marking the beginning of winter time as previously scheduled, … read more
A major power outage hit all of Hurghada city, one of Egypt’s top tourist destinations, on Friday two weeks after the country had witnessed a nationwide power outage. The blackout has affected tourist resorts as well as vital institutions, Al-Ahram Arabic … read more
The security forces arrested five of the 15 fugitive prisoners who escaped earlier on Friday, Gharbia Security Director Osama Bedeir said. The prisoners escaped from a police station in Gharbia, 90 km north of Cairo, on Friday morning. “The prisoners … read more
Egypt Independent The media center of the Ministry of Interior denied news circulated by a number of websites on Thursday about a contract between the Ministry of the Interior and a company to monitor Internet activities and social networking websites … read more
At least 15 prisoners escaped from a police station in Gharbia, 90 km north of Cairo, on Friday morning, a security source told Aswat Masriya. “The prisoners managed to escape when the guards opened their cell to take out the … read more
Egypt has contacted a sister company of a US-based online security firm to monitor the country’s cyber communications a few months after authorities unveiled a new campaign to keep social networking sites under surveillance. See Egypt, the sister company of … read more
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Thursday that the maximum efforts to counter threats and challenges facing national security must be exerted, reported the state-owned news agency MENA. Sisi’s comments came during an inspection of training activities for rapid … read more