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Official statistics in Egypt have revealed that the number of tourists who visited the country in September is down by 69.7% over the previous year, when ousted President Mohamed...

Around 320 students are reported to have been wounded by the Egyptian police and army when they broke into the halls of residence at Cairo's famed Al-Azhar University and...

Cairo's Criminal Court refused on Monday the appeal filed by Muslim Brotherhood leaders against their detention on charges of violence, a judicial source told mass media. The defendants who...

A senior leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, Salah Bardawil, said he was disappointed with the third Arab-African Summit in Kuwait and the Arab Peace Initiative Committee which...

Cairo's Criminal Court refused on Monday the appeal filed by Muslim Brotherhood leaders against their detention on charges of violence, a judicial source told mass media. The defendants who...

The Secretary General of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Dr Mahmoud Hussein, has denounced the recent statements by US Secretary of State John Kerry, who described the Muslim Brotherhood as the...

A senior member of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Saad Al-Husseini, revealed in court that the coup leaders have offered to release Muslim Brotherhood leaders and members of Egypt's Anti-coup alliance...

Fekri Nabil, a member of the Misr Al-Qawiya party, said the Committee of 50 to rewrite Egypt's constitution has drafted articles about the armed forces' mandate that signal a...

VIDEO In a new leaked audio tape, the Egyptian coup leader Gen. Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi has called for an end to subsidies on bread and energy in Egypt, as well...

The Egyptian coup authorities have today ordered the Turkish ambassador to leave the country saying that Turkey has blatantly interfered in Egypt's internal affairs, a foreign ministry statement said....

About 50 Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Egyptian prisons started a hunger strike on Friday in protest against the inhuman conditions of their detention, an official for the UN...

Egypt's National Salvation Front (NSF) and Coalition of the Youth of the Revolution have denounced a new constitutional article which allows civilians to be tried before martial courts. Egypt's...

Despite Egyptian official denial of all forms of normalization with Israel, Israel's Institute of Technology (Technion) announced that thousands of Arab students; including 600 Egyptians have applied to join...

A senior member of the Egypt-Turkey Business Council has called to keep political disagreements separate from economic relations following the Egyptian foreign ministry's decision on Saturday to expel the...

The 6 April Youth Movement has condemned a new law restricting public protests that was signed by interim President Adly Mansour on Sunday. According to the movement, the "police"...

The deputy leader of Egypt's Al-Nour Party has criticised the new protest law approved on Sunday by Interim President Adly Mansour. Tal'at Marzouq, the party's legal advisor, said that...

The Orthodox Church representative on the so-called Committee of 50 charged with drafting Egypt's new constitution has threatened to withdraw for the second time in protest at the drafting...

Egyptian coup leader General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has called for his supporters to unite in order to protect the coup roadmap for the future. He warned them of its...

Egyptian coup authorities detained on Monday the veteran judicial activist and former parliamentarian Mahmoud Al-Khudairi. The first deputy of the Egyptian Interior Ministry, Brigadier Ameen Ezzidin, issued the detention...

Egypt's Stock Market has incurred at least 5.4 billion Egyptian pounds in losses due to a new law which bans demonstrations without police approval that sparked anger across Egypt...

A special report released today by Middle East Monitor on negotiations by the Egyptian military backed government to purchase Israeli gas through Cyprus has raised a number of important...

The European Union's Delegation to Cairo has issued a statement noting that the EU's Ambassador to Egypt, James Moran, was misquoted in an interview with the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper,...

Middle East Monitor's report published today on Egypt negotiating Israeli gas via Cyprus highlights how the role of Egypt and Israel, and their supply of gas, has been reversed. Read...

Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkol Karman has condemned an Egyptian court's decision to imprison female minors for 11 years, pointing out how the decision coincides with the International...

Fifty-two Palestinian and Syrian refugees detained in Egypt are on hunger strike in protest at the conditions in which they are being held. As the group's health deteriorates after...

Sources in Libya have claimed that the government in Tripoli is seeking assistance from Saudi Arabia to prevent armed groups infiltrating its borders. Saudi Arabia has expertise in blocking...

The Egyptian army has confiscated fuel which was supposed to go to the Gaza Strip. A local activist said that the fuel was being stored in a field ready...

Egyptian women who were sentenced to 11 years in prison on Tuesday for taking part in a protest against the coup have sent a letter of defiance and hope...

The conviction and imprisonment of 21 female protesters, including seven girls, after they participated in a peaceful pro-Morsi demonstration in Alexandria shows the Egyptian authorities' determination to punish dissent,...

In an editorial published on Wednesday, the New York Times newspaper asserted that opposition voices against Egypt's interim government and Defence Minister General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi are on the...

24th November marked one hundred days since the demonstrations in Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahda Squares were violently dispersed, resulting in what Human Rights Watch described as the largest mass...

Egyptian coup leader General Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi said that the state institution has received a "strong attack" because of hostility to the police and the interior ministry. In a...