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The Egyptian Railways Authority has lost about LE70 million from 28 January 2011 to 10 January 2012, according to an official authority report on the impact of railroad strikes and sit-ins since the 25 January revolution began. The number of trains...
Court rulings have invalidated the results of various elections around Egypt for the third round of elections for the lower house of parliament, delaying the conclusion of the first half of Egypt's first post-Mubarak parliamentary polls. The...
An Egyptian court issued a ruling on Thursday for the release of 60 people arrested during clashes outside the cabinet building in December last year, pending investigations into charges against them. On 16 December 2011, military forces violently...
An official on Thursday warned the Islamists of oppressing the people should they come to power. “Muslims and Christians suffer from the behavior of some extremists from both sides,” Deputy Minister of Religious Endowments Mohamed Abu...
The Sufi orders, on Thursday, announced they would participate in the 25 January celebration to mark the first anniversary of the Egyptian revolution that toppled the ousted President Hosni Mubarak. Abdel Hadi al-Qasby, head of the Sufi orders, told...
The ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), in a statement on Thursday, renewed its pledge to hand over power to civilian rule not later than 30 June. The statement came in response to statements from former US President Jimmy Carter...
Supporters of Mahmoud Nabih, a candidate affiliated with the dissolved National Democratic Party (NDP), set the Daqahlia Governorate headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party on fire early Thursday morning, after they...
Abdel Moneim al-Shahat, a senior figure in the Salafi-oriented Nour Party and the official spokesperson for the Salafi movement in Alexandria, said in a television interview on Wednesday that giving festive greetings to Copts on their occasions is...
Egypt's three major churches and the Maspero Youth Union have come out in support of Al-Azhar's proposed basic freedoms document, which lays out a basic framework for respecting freedom of belief and expression in Egypt. The Orthodox,...
Activists on Wednesday called on all Egyptians to declare a day of mourning on 20 January, calling it “Friday of the Martyr's Dreams,” after the victims of the 25 January revolution that began last year. The Free Front for Peaceful...