Alexandrian officials reopened the city’s main port on Sunday following two days of closure due to bad weather, the port authority spokesman said. In statements to state-owned MENA agency, spokesman Reda El-Ghandour said the port’s main section was open for … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm MP and filmmaker Khaled Youssef has said “drugs found [in his luggage] were not Tramadol, but Xanax, which treats headaches. It is for my wife Mayar al-Sharbatly.” Security services arrested MP and filmmaker Khaled Youssef at Cairo International … read more
Cairo Criminal Court sentenced on Sunday former presidential candidate Hazem Salah Abu Ismail to five years in jail over charges of inciting the siege of Nasr City Court when former president Mohamed Morsi was in power, state-affiliated newspaper Akhbar Al-Youm … read more
By Aswat Masriya CAIRO, Jan 29 (Aswat Masriya) – EgyptAir received a request to prevent U.S. immigration visa holders from seven countries from boarding flights to the U.S., an official at the Cairo-based carrier told Reuters. Hossam Hussein, who is … read more
Hend El-Behary In the wake of the current unprecedented wave of price increases, Egyptians are faced with budget shortfalls, especially due to salaries that haven’t been increased for the last few years which cause stress, over thinking and depression. According … read more
Egypt Independent The House of Representatives’ Religious Committee will prepare a draft law regulating verbal divorce in a few days, Amr Hamrouch, secretary of the parliamentary committee, told Youm7. This comes in response to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s call for a law … read more
Aswat Masriya President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has issued a decree approving the memorandum of understanding signed between Egypt and Saudi Arabia over developing the Sinai Peninsula. The decree published on Thursday in the official government gazette states the “approval of … read more
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi told Egypt’s foreign minister Sameh Shoukry on Wednesday that “Egypt is in safe hands” under the government of President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi. Shoukry discussed with the Tunisian president bilateral relations between Egypt and Tunisia as well … read more
By Aswat Masriya CAIRO, Jan 25 (Aswat Masriya) – Quiet loomed over Tahrir on Wednesday noon as police vehicles and a few cars circled the Square on the sixth anniversary of the January 25 uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak. … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm Rights activists maintained almost identical views when asked by Al-Masry Al-Youm: What is the situation of human rights and freedoms in Egypt six years after the January 25 Revolution, a period which also witnessed the 30 June uprising? … read more