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A prominent Egyptian blogger has begun a hunger strike in protest at his detention and to raise awareness of what activists say is a widening crackdown on dissent by President Mohamed Morsy and his Islamist-led government.
Ahmed Douma was sentenced...
ISTANBUL - An Egyptian tourist is in a critical condition after being hit by a police gas canister in a crackdown on anti-government protests in Istanbul on Friday, a doctors' association said.
The 34-year-old woman was undergoing an operation...
A law drafted by the Egyptian presidency for regulating non-governmental organizations dashes hopes for a free civil society after the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.
President Mohamed Morsy has said the...
Egypt's main state wheat buyer, the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC), said on Thursday it had at least five months' worth of wheat stocks and expected an additional two months' supply once the local harvest season ends....
Egypt's central bank sold $38.5 million to banks in a foreign exchange auction on Wednesday, with the cut-off price weakening to 6.9731 Egyptian pounds to the dollar from 6.972 at Monday's auction.
The central bank introduced the auctions...
Egypt's presidency will soon unveil a new draft law on civil society and NGOs that should ease Western and opposition concerns over proposals seen as a threat to the new democracy, a presidential adviser said.
The opposition condemned an...
Egypt's central bank sold $38.4 million to banks in a foreign exchange auction on Monday, with the cut-off price unchanged at 6.972 Egyptian pounds to the dollar for the second auction in a row.
Currency dealers say the government may be...
Presidential spokesperson Ehab Fahmy refused to comment on news circulating that, during their meeting on Saturday, US Secretary of State John Kerry called on President Mohamed Morsy to swiftly carry out economic reforms in order to secure a loan...
Egypt's highest court ruled on Saturday that parts of a revised election law setting out terms for a parliamentary vote were unconstitutional, casting fresh doubt over a poll that has already been delayed.
The Islamist-dominated upper house of...
The $3 billion in aid that the United Arab Emirates pledged for Egypt in 2011 will "take time" to be transferred, the UAE Finance Minister and Dubai Deputy Ruler said on Friday.
"We are going in the right way but it will take time. I...
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