Fifteen Egyptian military personnel were killed or wounded in a clash on Saturday in North Sinai in which seven militants were also killed, the Egyptian military said. The breakdown...

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Palestinian passengers travelling through Egypt’s Cairo airport are being blackmailed by corrupt Egyptian officials, the Khaleej Online has found. The Arab newspaper exposed the systematic abuse faced by Palestinians...

Egypt’s General Intelligence Service has earned around five billion Egyptian pounds (about $2.9 billion) from a recent consulting deal signed between the government and the Egyptian Media Group. Well-informed...

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The Egyptian parliament on Thursday approved in principle draft constitutional amendments that would allow President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to stay in power until 2034 and tighten his control of...

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Egypt’s parliament yesterday began preliminary deliberations over constitutional amendments, which included extending the country’s presidency term to six years instead of four, as well as allowing the incumbent president...

The Egyptian security services have been working to replace Chairman of Zamalek Football Club, Mortada Mansour, with a less controversial figure. The New Khaleej news site reported informed sources...

Egyptian authorities executed yesterday three defendants on charges of killing a policeman on 19 September 2013. The executed defendants include Mohammed Saeed Faraj, Mohamed Abdel Samie Hamida and Salah...

US organisation Freedom House has ranked Egypt 126th out of 195 countries when it comes to public freedoms. According to a new report by the organisation based on 2018...

The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) has transferred $60 million to the Palestinian finance ministry’s account, the Saudi ambassador to Egypt and the kingdom’s permanent representative to the League...

An Egyptian criminal court has adjourned the trial of former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi until 19 February so as to listen to the testimony of a security officer who...

Chief of Hamas’ Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh has said that Gaza will remain a guard for Egypt’s national security. Speaking to the editorial staff of Egyptian newspaper Al-Masri Al-Youm...

Egyptian billionaire businessman Naguib Sawiris said on Tuesday he sees opportunities for mining, telecoms and hotels in North Korea if a summit between its leader Kim Jong Un and...

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Hundreds of young Egyptians, including actress Mai El Gheity, trudged through the mud on the banks of the River Nile to collect tonnes of old plastic bags, bottles and...

I do not care whether the Egyptian Constitution is amended or not, or even whether it exists or not, given that Egypt is a military state under tyrannical fascist...

The leaders of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan agreed yesterday on the need to support technical talks on Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam. According to a statement by the Egyptian presidency, this...

Egypt’s Prosecutor-General has referred two defendants to criminal trial on charges of embezzling 19 million Egyptian pounds ($1.08 million) from the state-owned Egyptian Electricity Holding Company. The investigation has...

Human rights researcher at the Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms, Ahmed Attar, has revealed that the government has executed three members of the opposition on the charge of...

Egypt’s annual inflation rate has reached 12.2 per cent in January, with an increase of 0.8 per cent compared to 11.1 per cent in December 2018. These figures were...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday condemned the Egyptian authorities’ execution of three coup opponents, stating that they were tortured into confessing. The three men – two of whom were...

Former foreign minister and presidential candidate Amr Moussa has called for national dialogue on proposed amendments to Egypt’s constitution. “I call for a wide national dialogue on the amendments,”...

Twenty-four-year old Ayatollah Ashraf was arrested from her home in the Qalyubiyah governorate of Egyptian capital Cairo on 3 October 2018. Egyptian security forces broke into the family’s home...

A Cairo criminal court ordered the re-trial for Habib Al-Adly, who was interior minister prior to the 2011 uprising that ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak, and other defendants in a...

Fatah is reported to have rejected official invitations extended by Egypt and Russia to host Palestinian reconciliation meetings, Resala.net has reported. According to informed sources, Egypt has proposed a...

Egypt yesterday denied reports that the government will lift bread subsidies in response to International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditions for loans which Cairo has obtained. The Ministry of Supply and...

Egypt is reported to have led covert efforts to support Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in the upcoming presidential elections in Libya slated...

Egypt has received the fifth instalment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan programme, worth $2 billion, official MENA reported yesterday, quoting an official source at the country’s Central...

Egyptian social media users have circulated images of a teenager who has been locked up for ten years by his mother. According to local reports, the 17-year-old was held...

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