The head of Egypt's National Council for Women Mervat al-Tallawy met Wednesday with members of a new special unit of female police officers formed by Interior Ministry to combat violence against women.
Tallawy praised the Interior Minister...
Meteorologists project the beginning of a heat wave on Thursday, with temperatures expected to rise by eight to nine degrees Celsius. The peak of the heat wave will be on Friday, with a high of 39 degrees Celsius in Cairo.
Experts advise citizens to...
The North Cairo Criminal Court on Wednesday acquitted seven policemen accused of killing one protester and injuring 11 others in the Cairo neighborhood of Marg during the 25 January revolution.
It was the second time for the case to appear in that...
The Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip reopened on Wednesday morning after five days of closure, following the release of seven Egyptian soldiers kidnapped last week in Sinai.
Border police working at the land crossing ended the...
On Monday, the Republican Guard started to increase security measures in the area surrounding the Ettehadiya Presidential Palace, in anticipation of mass protests planned by revolutionary groups who oppose President Mohamed Morsy of the Muslim...
For the second time, Information Minister Salah Abdel Maqsoud has created controversy when he answered Nahar TV reporter Dalia Ashraf’s question on the development of television by saying, “Come, and I’ll show you where the...
Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim on Wednesday visited Pope Tawadros II at St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Abbasseya to offer his condolences for the victims of the Khosous clashes.
The deadly 5 April clashes between Muslims and...
US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Wednesday the US effort to determine whether Syria has used chemical weapons is a "serious business" that cannot be decided in a rush just because several countries believe evidence supports that...
Head of the Judges Club Ahmed al-Zend has said that the General Assembly decided to nullify the draft law submitted by the Wasat Party to the Shura Council and prevent the council from discussing it.
The assembly prevented discussion on the bill by...
Several political parties and forces protested in front of the High Court Wednesday, in solidarity with judges during their public assembly meeting, shouting slogans against what they called “schemes to demolish judicial institutions,”...