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Egypt's trade deficit rose in June by about 62.5 per cent to reach 26.3 billion Egyptian pounds ($3.36 billion) compared to 16.2 billion Egyptian pounds ($2.06 billion) during the...

Mexican Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu arrived in Egypt yesterday and demanded a "thorough" and "transparent" investigation into the incident in which the Egyptian army killed eight Mexican tourists...

The UN envoy to Libya, Bernardino Leon,  on Wednesday called on Libyan parties to return to the negotiating table of peace talks taking place in the Moroccan town of...

An Egyptian court sentenced eight defendants to death on Tuesday on charges of belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group and handed 77 others life terms, a judicial source...

French authorities cleared more than 500 refugees from two makeshift camps in Paris on Thursday, moving them to temporary homes, local media said. Social workers and charity staff escorted...

Libya's internationally-backed Tobruk government yesterday accused the Libya Dawn Air Force Commander Brigadier General Saqr Jeroshi of giving orders to militants to prevent Prime Minister Abdullah Al-Thani's airplane from...

Egypt's electoral committee has excluded a steel tycoon close to former President Hosni Mubarak from contesting next month's parliamentary polls. Ahmed Ezz was excluded from the initial list of...

"No to despotism and reconciliation with corruption!" chanted demonstrators in the heart of the capital of Tunisia last weekend. Many demonstrators held signs with similar messages or waved pictures...

An Egyptian court yesterday adjourned the trial of 213 defendants accused of being affiliation with Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis, which recently announced its affiliation to Daesh, the Anadolu Agency said....

Gaza Electricity Distribution Company yesterday denied reports that Egyptian electricity lines had been reconnected to supply parts of the Gaza Strip, the company said in a statement. The statement,...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas asked his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi to host the Palestinian National Council (PNC) emergency meeting in Egypt, senior Egyptian sources revealed yesterday. The...

Egyptians living in Syria, Yemen and Libya will not be able to vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled for 17-18 October, Turkey's Anadolu Agency reported. A spokesman for...

Egypt may be unique in modern history as an example of a state governed by a corrupt elite and tyrant authority. Corruption has struck almost every state institution, from...

Egypt has seen seven death sentences carried out and 246 overturned, with a further 433 still subject to appeal, out of a total of 1,695 death sentences referred to...

Deputy Chief of the Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas Mousa Abu-Marzouk arrived in Cairo yesterday evening after a visit to Beirut, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported. According to Hamas sources, Abu-Marzouk is...

Egyptian journalist and writer Mostafa Al-Bakri said that the former Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab was paid a million Saudi riyals a month when he worked in the kingdom,...

Egyptian authorities have accused Israel of abducting four Palestinians in the Sinai last month, Palestinian sources told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. The four Palestinians from Gaza were kidnapped just 200 metres...

In an interview with Anadolu new agency, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muiznieks, said that the EU delayed its response to the refugee crisis. The...

Egyptian forces mistakenly killed 12 Mexican tourists and injured ten others in the Western Sahara because they thought they were "terrorist militants", authorities admitted yesterday. The interior ministry said...

Algeria is committed to supporting the Palestinian cause and a solution that is based on political dialogue and national consensus to resolve the crises in Syria, Libya and Yemen,...

Nearly 200 billion Egyptian pounds ($25.5 billion) has been lost through corruption since the January 2011 revolution until the end of 2014, the former deputy chief of the Central...

Egyptian citizens, including some holding masters' degrees and doctorates, took to the streets in two marches in the centre of Cairo on Thursday, protesting against low wages and unemployment,...

Egypt has denied sending 800 ground troops to Yemen, Jordan's Al-Sabeel newspaper reported on Friday. The Egyptian government stressed that only its air force and navy are taking part...

The Israeli embassy has reopened, but in a new building; a fancy building in New Cairo. It was reopened during the time of Al-Sisi's Egypt, the time of intellectual...

Senior members of the Egyptian Freedom and Justice Party arrived in Geneva, Switzerland, this week to urge the UN to establish a commission of inquiry into the human right...

A right-wing US magazine said that the Egyptian army may spread alligators in the moat it is constructing along the border with the Gaza Strip. Israeli website Arutz Sheva reported:...

The number of Palestinian pilgrims who departed from Cairo airport heading towards Saudi Arabia over the past three days has reached 2,363. The worshippers travelled through the Rafah Crossing...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Egypt yesterday for talks on the latest Palestinian developments. Abbas discussed developments in the Palestinian territories and crises facing the Palestine Liberation...

Israel has thanked Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi for permitting the reopening of the Israeli embassy in Cairo after it was closed for four years. In a statement today,...

Nine anti-government defendants were sentenced to death in Egypt on Monday, bringing the number of those handed the death penalty to 680 since 3 July 2013, the Arab Organisation...

At least four civilians were killed by the Egyptian army in the third day of military operation in Sinai, tribal sources told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed yesterday. The Egyptian army announced...

Egyptian lawyer Ali Taha filed a complaint against the country's Justice Minister Ahmed Al-Zind over allegations of corruption, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported yesterday. The compliant included accusations of selling land...