An Egyptian court sentenced three persons to death, including the senior aide of Hisham Al-Ashmawy who was executed last year, after finding them guilty of terrorism charges over their...

Egypt's Hedaya Malak has won her country's first medal at this year's Olympic Games in Tokyo, in the women's 67kg taekwondo event, earning a bronze after defeating Paige McPherson...

Another apartment block has collapsed in Egypt after a demolition order was ignored, killing one person and injuring others. The six-storey building was in the Warraq district of the...

Dismissed Fatah leader Mohammad Dahlan has officially asked local and regional sides to allow him to attend meetings being held by Palestinian factions in Cairo, Lebanon's Al-Akhbar newspaper has revealed. Egypt...

The Egyptian government has started implementing the law stipulating the dismissal of Muslim Brotherhood members from public and private positions, Arabi21.com reported on Tuesday. Egypt's Supreme Council for Universities,...

Tunisia is the answer. This is, and has been, what we've been saying and believing all along. Even before writing this article, Tunisia was the answer to all possible...

On Sunday Tunisia's President, Kais Saeid assumed emergency powers to sack the prime minister, suspend parliament and the immunity of parliamentarians, and assume authority of the government. The birthplace...

Egypt's Supreme Council for Universities has asked university deans to make lists of "terrorist" employees so they can be expelled. At the end of June Egypt's parliament approved a draft...

An Israeli District Court in Jerusalem has fined the Palestinian Authority (PA) one million shekels ($306,000) in case of the kidnapping of two Jewish women in the 1980s, local...

A landmark deal between Israel and the UAE that has the potential to transform the transportation of oil across the Middle East has hit a major snag, delaying efforts...

Prominent Egyptian opposition leader and former presidential candidate, Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, has suffered a heart attack in jail, his son Hudhayfa said on Facebook. Hudhayfa said prison guards...

Hundreds of Egyptian journalists have called for the release of all political prisoners, local media reported yesterday. In an official note, the Journalists Syndicate called on the country's public...

An Egyptian court yesterday requested that Interpol issue an arrest notice for prominent contractor Mohamed Ali and two others for "inciting violence and spreading fake news, and joining a...

The Russian Foreign Ministry has rejected attempts to link Moscow's techno-military cooperation with Addis Ababa on the issue of the Renaissance Dam, RT Arabic reported on Friday. Moscow has...

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry voiced deep concerns on Wednesday about a planned change in the abandoned resort of Varosha in Turkish Cyprus, Egypt Today has reported. Varosha contains derelict...

Pressure is building on Egypt from human rights organisations to halt the execution of 12 men on death row who could be hung at any time. Over the weekend...

The Biden administration is drawing up arms deals with at least three human rights abusers including Egypt, despite pledging to put human rights at the centre of its foreign...

Egypt announced Tuesday the release of more than 2,000 prisoners on instructions from President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, according to state media, Anadolu Agency reported. Al-Sisi issued a pardon for 2,075 prisoners to...

Over 600 people, including clergymen, MPs, political figures, and army officers, have attended the swearing-in ceremony of Bashar Al-Assad at the presidential palace in Damascus. He is now serving...

Egypt opened its Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip yesterday, allowing stranded Palestinians to return home and celebrate the Muslim holiday of Eid with their families, according to...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has tightened his grip on the military establishment through a package of parliamentary and government decrees. The process dates from mid-2013 when he took...

The Sudanese Ministry of Irrigation yesterday called on residents living on the banks of the Blue Nile to take precautions due to an expected rise in the river's water...

The Egyptian Public Prosecution issued orders to imprison Abdel Nasser Salama, the former editor-in-chief of Al-Ahram newspaper, for 15 days pending an investigation into claims he financed terrorism. Salama was charged...

Egypt yesterday condemned "renewed Israeli violations against Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of the Israeli forces." "Egypt categorically rejects these violations," the Foreign Ministry spokesperson said in a statement,...

Israel rejected Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's request to mediate with Ethiopia over its Renaissance Dam, Israeli Maariv newspaper reported. Jacky Hugi added that although every now and then someone in...

On the North Bank of the River Thames stands London’s most ancient monument. Older than the British capital itself, Cleopatra’s Needle dates back nearly 3,500 years.

Two months after the end of the last Israeli aggression on Gaza, Israel admitted that there is no simple solution to the situation in the strip. The instability of...

Egypt's former Minister of Irrigation Mohamed Nasr Allam has announced that Egypt is currently suffering severe water shortages, RT reported on Friday. Allam cited that Egypt faces a problem...

This came during Hamdok's meeting with the President of the Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, in the capital, Abidjan, on the sidelines of the meetings of the International Development Agency...

An Egyptian court has ordered the release of 130 defendants held in political cases this week, according to a human rights lawyer, Anadolu Agency reports. Opposition website Darb cited...

An Egyptian official revealed that his country was not waiting for the UN Security Council to find solutions to the Renaissance Dam crisis, stressing that the international body did...

The United States said yesterday that it had warned Egypt not to crackdown on civil society activists, saying this could affect arms sales. US Department of State spokesman, Ned...