King Abdullah II of Jordan arrived on Tuesday afternoon in Cairo in an official one-day visit, aiming to discuss several regional issues and cooperation with Egypt. Abdullah was received by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi at Cairo International, state-run newspaper Al-Ahram … read more
Hundreds gathered on Wednesday at Aswan’s Abu Simbel Temple to watch the bi-yearly phenomenon of the sun illuminating a statue of King Ramsses II — this month, to mark the pharaoh’s birthday — Ahram Arabic news website reported. The 3,200-year-old … read more
Three days have passed since the swearing in of five new Egyptian governors, with Beheira’s Nadia Abdo appointed as Egypt’s first female governor. Although Abdo’s post as the governor is only two working days old, she is well seasoned for … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm Central Bank of Egypt governor (CBE) Tarek Amer approved an agreement with investors to restructure their debts owed to banks in US dollars. A bank chairman who attended the meeting on Monday told al-Masry al-Youm on condition of … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm Pharos Holding Investment Bank projected four factors to decide the future of the Egyptian pound exchange rate against the US dollar in the short term. A research paper by the company said the weeks heading up to the … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm EFG-Hermes on Sunday projected the US dollar exchange rate to further decline to LE14.5 over the next few weeks. Ahmed Shams el-Din, head of research at EFG-Hermes, said Sunday that he expects the US dollar exchange rate to … read more
Human rights lawyer Khaled Ali announced on Saturday that he, along with other lawyers including Tarek El-Awady, Malek Adly, has filed a case in an administrative court calling for the barring of “foreign settlements” in Sinai. Ali said on his … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm Security services besieged on Sunday al-Balabeesh village and Naga al-Sheikh Embader in Sohag to arrest criminals and weapon smugglers. Huge number of troops in 30 armored vehicles took part in the raid to storm houses at … read more
By Reuters Islamic State published a video on Sunday threateningEgyptian Christians and showing the last statement of a man it said was responsible for the deadly bombing in December of a Coptic cathedral in Cairo. The masked man in battle-dress, … read more
Veteran Islamist preacher and theorist of Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya group, Omar Abdel Rahman, died on Saturday, after 24 years of imprisonment in a US prison. Abdel Rahman was spending a life-sentence after being accused in 1993 of being involved in the … read more