UK travel company Thomas Cook has announced it has a number of flights planned to Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh in November 2017, raising hopes for the revival of the Red Sea tourism sector which has been hit … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm Egypt ranks third place among Arab countries on the Global Hunger Index for 2016 and in 59th place among 118 countries surveyed, according to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization And Statistics (CAPMAS). On the Global Food Security Index, Egypt … read more
MENA The eight-meter statue of Ramses II and other relics unearthed in Matariya arrived at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square early on Thursday. State-run Nile News TV channel aired the transfer of the statue, which was carried out by the … read more
Egypt’s Hurghada governorate will host its first ever edition of the Somabay Egyptian Solar Challenge (SESC) where a number of domestic as well as international teams will race solar cars, state news agency MENA reported. The competition will take place … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm Meteorologists expect mild weather to prevail on Friday across most of the country to be hotter in southern Upper Egypt; temperatures will drop overnight across all parts. Visibility will decrease in the morning due to dense mist throughout Lower … read more
By Emad Omar “Everything has an end, even dreams”, whispered a friend saying goodbye to me at Beirut airport on the last day of three weeks I spent in Lebanon in the mid-nineties. Quoted from a song of Fairouz, the … read more
AP A senior official with Italy’s oil and gas company Eni says the discovery of a huge natural gas deposit in Egyptian waters has boosted hopes of other such finds in the eastern Mediterranean that could help meet Europe’s energy … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has instructed the necessity to provide citizens with their shares of subsidized bread. During a meeting on Monday attended by the prime minister and ministers of defense, foreign affairs, interiors, justice, finance, domestic trade … read more
The Russian Defence Ministry said on Tuesday it did not have special forces in Egypt after U.S., Egyptian and diplomatic sources told Reuters it appeared to have deployed such forces to an Egyptian airbase, the Interfax news agency reported. The … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm Former president Hosni Mubarak returned to his home in Heliopolis on Monday, after Attorney General Nabil Sadeq approved a prosecutor’s decision to release him. “The release decision was issued by North Cairo district attorney Ibrahim Saleh,” Mubarak’s advocate … read more