A poll conducted by Egyptian polling centre, Baseera in cooperation with a program called “Yahdoth fi Misr” (Happening in Egypt), shows former army chief Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi receiving the support of over half of the population. Responding to the question concerning preference for … read more
Four people were killed and another injured when a private car flipped on Safaga-Qena highway. The bodies of the victims and the injured were transferred to Qena Public Hospital. A claim was filed with the incident and the prosecution was … read more
One person was killed in a blast that occurred near the Ahmed Orabi Metro Station in Cairo’s Ramsis on Friday evening, said Khaled al-Khatib, head of the Urgent Care Unit at the Health Ministry. The blast which happened in front of … read more
Presidential contender Hamdeen Sabahi has said that social justice and the eradication of poverty are on top of his electoral platform. Saturday marks the start of electoral campaigning after the Presidential Election Commission officially announced Sabahi and his rival Abdel … read more
A U.S. think tank has ranked 90 countries according to their levels of “misery”, with several Muslim-majority countries on the list.The Cato Institute used data from the Economist Intelligence Unit to rank countries according to unemployment, lending, inflation and economic … read more
The International Comparison Program report, released on Tuesday in the US, compares purchasing power and real expenditures of 177 countries using statistics from 2011. The lowest-cost country is Egypt, just ahead of Pakistan, Myanmar and Ethiopia. Switzerland ranks ahead of … read more
No one wants a telling off by their boss, especially not in public. But for Egypt-based news anchor Rana al-Duwaik, the nightmare became reality when the owner of the channel for which she works called into her program to tell … read more
Rolling blackouts have already been hitting neighborhoods of Cairo daily throughout the winter, when electricity usage is lower. Now summer’s heat is coming, and Egypt’s crippling energy crisis is threatening to mount, creating an immediate political liability for the new … read more
An army air strike on North Sinai’s Sheikh Zoueid killed five extremists on Thursday night, security sources said. Apache helicopters raided Karm al-Qawadis area South of Sheikh Zoueid after the army had received information of extremists activity in the area, … read more
Two police officers were reportedly killed in an explosion outside the Heliopolis Court Friday, according to Youm7, making it the third bombing to occur on Friday. read more