Egypt closes Rafah crossing
Egyptian authorities sealed the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the besieged Gaza Strip yesterday evening after four consecutive days of allowing Palestinians to return to Gaza from Egypt. In...
May 10, 2017
Egyptian authorities sealed the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the besieged Gaza Strip yesterday evening after four consecutive days of allowing Palestinians to return to Gaza from Egypt. In...
May 10, 2017
Egypt’s annual urban consumer-price inflation hit a three-decade high in April, adding pressure on the government to lower prices. Annual urban inflation rose in April to 31.5 per cent...
May 10, 2017
An Egyptian woman has recorded a video criticising President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and questioning his leadership. The recording comes in response to a planned bill, currently being considered by...
May 10, 2017
Egypt’s Court of Cassation yesterday overturned a life sentence previously issued by a lower court against the Muslim Brotherhood’s Supreme Guide, Mohamed Badie, and various prison sentences against 49...
May 10, 2017
An apparently mentally unstable man caused panic among passengers on a airliner heading for Cairo from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday when he threatened to blow up the...
May 10, 2017
German police on Tuesday detained a second soldier suspected of involvement in a plan by an army officer and a student to carry out an attack, possibly on politicians...
May 10, 2017
At least 9,900 of Iraq’s Yazidis were killed or kidnapped in just days in an Daesh attack in 2014, according to the first study to document the number of...
May 10, 2017
Some 17 per cent of the Jewish immigrants who came to Israel from the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s have since left, official data by Israel’s Central...
May 10, 2017
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