A prosecutor has ordered the release of Khaled Mansour, a member of the team behind Egypt’s most-watched satirical show, on L.E. 5,000 bail ($720). Egypt’s prosecutor-general had ordered the interrogation of Khaled Mansour to question him over a segment titled … read more
Initial lab results have revealed that dirty cutlery was behind Monday’s second mass poisoning in Al-Azhar University in Cairo, which left 180 students hospitalised. According to Ahmed Hosny, deputy head of the Al-Azhar University, the food poisoning resulted from dirty … read more
“I stopped watching television. Now I watch cartoons with my children, movies and religious sermons only,” said Qutb Sayed, 40, a driver who lives with his wife and four children in a small one-room flat in Cairo’s industrial city of … read more
A US embassy car crashed in the 6th of October district of Cairo, injuring three, including the military attache who was driving the vehicle, and killing the driver of the other car. The corpse and the injured were transferred to … read more
Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court’s State Commissioners Authority on Thursday ordered that President Mohamed Morsi’s son and daughter attend the hearing on a lawsuit demanding the revocation of their US citizenship. This comes as part of a lawsuit filed in 2012 … read more
Egypt’s cabinet reshuffle will see six ministers replaced, Al-Ahram Arabic news website has reported, citing a government source. President Morsi had intended to replace ten ministers, the source added, but the number was trimmed to six because he could not … read more
The first district attorney in East Cairo’s prosecution office has announced that ten defendants accused of culpability in a mass outbreak of food poisoning at Al-Azhar University on 1 April will stand trial on 15 May. On 1 April, over … read more
Egyptian security forces arrested Sheikh Abdullah Badr on Wednesday, upholding a December 2012 court verdict against him for insulting an Egyptian actress on television. Acid-tongued Badr was sentenced on 17 December to a year in jail, with bail set at … read more
Hundreds of Egyptian workers and political activists have joined a march from Cairo’s Sayyeda Zeinab district to the Shura Council headquarters to voice workers’ demands on Labour Day. Protesters waved red flags as they shouted the famous slogan of Egypt’s … read more
State security prosecutors have started interrogating an Egyptian national accused of spying for Israel, Judge Hisham El-Qarmouty, general attorney of the State Security High Prosecution, said on Tuesday. This month, an Israeli spy jailed in Egypt began a hunger strike … read more