Egypt

The French judiciary yesterday accused local company Nexa Technologies of embroilment in "acts of torture and forced disappearances." Nexa was recently reported to have sold cyber-surveillance equipment to the...

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), on Monday, condemned a visit by Israeli President, Isaac Herzog, to the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron to celebrate...

Al Jazeera calls on Egypt to release its journalist Hisham Abdelaziz who is being held "on baseless allegations, despite exceeding the legal period of pretrial detention stated in the...

"Two blows to the head hurt," says an Egyptian proverb. But what if there are three? The UAE has announced, for example, that Israel is going to sell 50...

Egyptian air strikes hit North Sinai yesterday morning, reports the New Arab, and the military carried out raids in the cities of Rafah and Sheikh Zuweid. The army regularly targets...

Egypt has banned flights from south African countries after the first case of the new coronavirus variant was detected in Belgium in a traveller returning from Egypt via Turkey....

The Egyptian army has allowed residents in North Sinai to return to their homes five years after evacuating them so that soldiers could confront "militants and terrorist operations" in...

Algeria's army chief of staff Said Chengriha on Sunday started an official visit to Egypt for talks with Egyptian military officials on issues of common interest, according to the...

The death of former Egyptian MP Hamdy Hassan, 63, inside his prison cell has caused a widescale social media campaign against the Egyptian regime led by Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi,...

The Tunisian navy rescued 487 migrants today from an overloaded boat that ran into difficulty in rough seas in the Mediterranean as they tried to reach Europe, Reuters reports. The vessel...

Egypt and Israel have signed a memorandum of understanding to increase natural gas supplies from Israel to Egypt, with the aim of re-exporting, the Egyptian Ministry of Petroleum announced...

Egypt's former presidential candidate and leader of the Strong Egypt Party, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, yesterday appeared in court for the first time since he was arrested in February...

A global human rights watchdog, on Wednesday, called on French authorities to "immediately investigate" allegations on involvement in aerial attacks against civilians in a joint "covert operation" with Egypt...

Twenty European Union (EU) diplomats arrived this morning in the besieged Gaza Strip to assess the humanitarian situation there. Shadi Othman, the spokesman for the European Union office in...

Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris is trending again on social media after warning that the government's monopoly over the economy is creating an unfair playing field in Egypt. "Companies that...

Two coronavirus patients have been killed and two injured in a fire at a private hospital in Giza's Mohandiseen district. The fire was caused by an electrical short circuit...

A passenger flying from Egypt to Russia is believed to have killed himself in the toilets leading the pilot to make an emergency landing in Cairo. According to the Daily...

Apple yesterday said it had filed a lawsuit against Israel's NSO and its parent company OSY Technologies, in an effort to stop the spyware company from using any of its devices. This comes after the...

Egypt will receive a new loan of $360 million from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the Egyptian international cooperation minister announced yesterday. Rania Al-Mashat said in a statement...

Egypt and Israel backed the military coup carried out on 25 October by army chief Abdul Fattah Al-Burhan, Foreign Minister Maryam Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi revealed yesterday. In a discussion with the Atlantic Council, Al-Mahdi said Egypt...

Egypt's president has ratified a law with amendments on divulging state secrets, which carries a fine of 5,000 to 50,000 Egyptian pounds ($238-2,380) and between six months and five years...

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry reiterated his country's "categorical rejection" of using Yemen as a platform to target Saudi Arabia and harm navigation in the Red Sea. This came...

Posters of Egypt's dictator Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi have been placed around Gaza to thank him for reconstructing part of the Strip. The display is reminiscent of 2017 when his image appeared across...

Bilateral relations between Algeria and Iran have grown ever since ties were restored 21 years ago. They were initially severed in 1993 after the North African country accused Tehran...

Disclose TV has obtained hundreds of official documents revealing a secret French-Egyptian military intelligence operation used to target and kill civilians accused of smuggling across the Libyan border. The...

Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris has warned that the government's engagement in the private sector creates "unfair" competition and an "unequal playing field". "Government-owned or military-affiliated companies do not pay...

Three human rights watchdogs have said that the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) September report includes "false and misleading claims." Amnesty International, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies...

From the middle of the 20th century until the first decade of the 21st, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was the main fortress of Arab reactionism. This was due...

Egypt's Emergency State Security Court yesterday sentenced five political activists to varying prison terms ranging from three to five years for allegedly spreading false news and "disturbing public peace"....

Qatar and Egypt have signed agreements to supply fuel and basic building materials to the Gaza Strip, which has been under strict Israeli siege for more than 15 years, the Qatari...

The Egyptian cabinet yesterday approved a draft decision submitted by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly to amend some provisions of the regulation of the Human Organ Transplant Law. The amendment...

Ten Eritrean refugees detained in the Red Sea Governorate since 2019 have been on hunger strike for four days. They have been denied contact with UNHCR and were not...