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A delegation from the International Monetary Fund arrived in Cairo on Monday led by Massoud Ahmed, director of the IMF's Middle East and Central Asia Department, to discuss granting Egypt a loan of US$3.2 billion.
Abdel Shakour Shalaan, Middle...
Cairo and Alexandria witnessed a fresh wave of strikes and protests on Sunday, blocking roads and causing disruption to the work of the Ministry of Transport.
In the Cairo district of Nasr City, truck drivers blocked the entrance to the Ministry of...
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-orthodox Shas Party, has called on Israelis to pray to God to give judges the wisdom to find ousted President Hosni Mubarak innocent.
Yosef said on Saturday that he prays to God to bless...
Fugitive policeman Mohamed Ibrahim Abdel Moneim, known as Mohamed al-Sunni, turned himself in on Sunday to be tried on charges of killing protesters in front of Zawya Hamra, sources from the Cairo Security Department said.
Major General Hassan...
December's security raid on the National Democratic Institute (NDI) offices in Egypt were “extremely dangerous” and “shocking,” Les Campbell, director of the US-based NDI's democracy programs in the Middle East, has...
Some pharmacists working at public sector pharmacies in Alexandria and Kafr al-Sheikh will strike on Sunday because their bonuses have not been paid. They are also demanding salary increases.
Mohamed Fattouh, a member of the Pharmacists Syndicate...
The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) does not support calls for accelerating the transfer of power to a civilian government and insists on following the plan in which parliamentary elections will be followed by constitution drafting and then...
Khartoum is hosting a two-day meeting of the tripartite technical committee that will evaluate Ethiopia’s Millennium Dam on Sunday. Four international experts from different specializations will be chosen to join the committee.
At some point...
Dozens of protesters marched around Tahrir Square after Friday prayers, demanding retribution for protesters killed since the 25 January revolution began, social justice, halting natural gas exports to Israel, and a swift transition to civilian rule...
Two judges investigating the violent clashes outside the cabinet last December ordered activist Ahmed Doama detained Thursday for 15 days pending investigation, judicial sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm Friday.
In response, activists on Facebook and...
