The Egyptian government has formed a committee to set standards for importing coal and it is due to finish its work within a month, Environment Minister Layla Eskander told Aswat Masriya on Tuesday. The cabinet approved the use of coal … read more
A child was killed and three people were injured while demolishing an unlicensed building behind the Supreme Constitutional Court in Maadi. Maj. Gen. Mamdouh Abdul Qadir, director of Emergency Response in Cairo, received a communication of the incident and rescue … read more
Arab Spring women activists spoke dramatically of their role in the Middle Eastern uprising on Friday at a New York panel moderated by top U.S. political satirist Jon Stewart. “People think of the Arab Spring as a singular event, but … read more
Kuwait’s state oil group has signed contracts to supply Egypt with 85,000 barrels of crude oil per day and 1.5 million tonnes of diesel and jet fuel per year, state news agency KUNA reported on Tuesday. read more
Twenty human and children’s rights NGOs called on the Ministry of Interior to speed up the process of arresting a 28-year-old man charged with raping his nine-year-old niece, at least 20 times over a period of eight months, in a … read more
The men were accused of attending or arranging “deviant” sex parties, and dressing in women’s clothes and wearing make-up. Egyptian law does not explicitly ban homosexual acts, but prosecutors have used legislation banning debauchery to try homosexuals. The verdict has … read more
A week after British Prime Minister David Cameron announced an investigation into the Muslim Brotherhood’s terror ties, leaders of the Islamist group warned that banning the organization would have dire repercussions for the UK The leader of the Brotherhood in … read more
Egyptian security forces have stormed a university in the capital Cairo to quell student protests against the military-backed government. On Sunday, police stormed the campus of Ain Shams University in eastern Cairo to disperse students protesting the persecution of Muslim … read more
A controversial lawyer and critic of activists who spearheaded Egypt’s 2011 uprising announced Sunday he will run for president, in an election expected to be won by the ex-army chief. Mortada Mansour, who was elected last week as head of … read more
GCSE and A-level examinations could be brought forward for hundreds of thousands of pupils to avoid a clash with Ramadan under controversial proposals. Teachers and lecturers in England and Wales are pushing for the summer exam timetable to be altered … read more