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Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr's recent tour of Nile Basin countries reflects Egypt's interest in continuing political dialogue with these countries, said spokesperson for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry Amr Roshdy. It also shows a desire...
Cairo's Tahrir Square grew calm Wednesday morning after clashes broke out the night before between protesters and a group of attackers, who used knives, other weapons and live ammunition to disrupt a protest march in the square. After the...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will not impose conditions on Egypt in exchange for a loan of US$3.2 billion, Massoud Ahmed, head of an IMF delegation currently visiting Egypt, told Al-Masry Al-Youm on Tuesday. Egyptian government officials...
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) is to meet on Wednesday with the Salafi Nour Party, the Jama’a al-Islamiya’s Construction and Development Party, the Reform and Development Party, Karama Party and the...
Egypt’s military rulers and the Interior Ministry have devised plans to confront protesters during 25 January anniversary celebrations, security sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm on Tuesday. The plan will employ various techniques against those...
A former security official, who was a witness in the trial of deposed President Hosni Mubarak has said, he was “pressured” to change his testimony before the Cairo Criminal Court in September. Hassan Abdel Hamid, who served as assistant...
Between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2011, there were 335 labor protests in Egypt, said a report issued by the Egyptian Ministry of Manpower on Tuesday. The report said that during the same period, the ministry received 4,460 individual and group...
The Egyptian State Council’s Administrative Court has postponed a hearing in a case where plaintiffs are requesting an end to the use of weapons, live ammunition or teargas in dispersing demonstrations. The court hearing will take place on 28...
National Bank of Egypt's total revenues for the fiscal year ending 30 June 2011 stood at LE4.2 billion, with a net profit of around LE2.1 billion. The bank gave loans totaling LE71 billion, up LE22 billion from the year before. The bank also...
Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority engineers have begun to dismantle equipment and machinery from a nuclear power plant construction site in the north coast city of Dabaa, preparing to move them to a safer location after the station was looted this...