The National Population Council (NPC) received a notice from the Attorney General on Tuesday about the case of 13-year-old Suhair al-Bata’a, who died after being circumcised last June in the Dakahlia governorate, Youm7 reported. Raslan Fadl, 57, the doctor who … read more
Seven militants were killed in an army crackdown on a farm west of the Al-Madfouna Al-Shamaliya village in North Sinai, and three militants classified as “most dangerous” and 33 other suspects were arrested. Sources said the army recovered 1,250 kg … read more
Gunmen shot dead a military officer and injured three soldiers near Al-Zaytoun hospital in east Cairo early Thursday morning, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported. Two assailants on a motorcycle attacked an armed forces’ bus transporting the soldiers. read more
Religious Endowments Minister Mohamed Mokhtar decreed on Tuesday that all mosques in Egypt are to be supervised and administered by the ministry, however small they may be. He assigned the ministry to implement the decision within a month. read more
A doctor in Egypt will face trial for performing a female circumcision operation that killed a teenage girl, a judicial official said on Tuesday. The 14-year-old girl’s father who took her to the doctor for the procedure will also face … read more
Egyptian forces killed a suspected insurgent in a shootout in the streets of Cairo on Tuesday, the interior ministry said. The man was suspected of involvement in the bombing of a security compound in central Cairo in January in which … read more
A homemade bomb has exploded in front of the Israeli embassy in Cairo, security sources and the website of the state-run Al-Ahram newspaper has said. Security sources said the explosion on Tuesday targeted a police car, rather than the embassy … read more
Twenty-one people were killed and 24 were wounded when a bus and truck crashed into each other in Suez’s Ayun Moussa power station early on Tuesday, a medical source said. Ten of the injured are in poor condition while four … read more
Electricity prices for consumers have not increased since January 2013, Minster of Electricity Mohamed Shaker said Sunday in a statement. Parliament must approve any increase in electricity tariffs, he said, adding that the government is conscious of country’s different economic … read more
With summer fast approaching, the fear of power outages has returned to Egypt’s population amid increasing spells of darkness during the month of March, adding to speculation that power outages will last for longer periods and increase as fuel shortages … read more