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Manal Bahey al-Din Hassan, wife of detained blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah, gave birth to their first child, Khaled, on Tuesday. Abd El Fattah did not witness the birth because the North Cairo Court of Appeals rejected his request to be temporarily...
The armed forces will hand over power to civilians by the end of June as military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi has promised, a prominent military official reiterated Tuesday.
Major General Hassan al-Roweiny, Supreme Council of the Armed...
An Egyptian court on Tuesday adjourned the trial of a Jordanian citizen accused of spying for Israel to 2 January.
Egyptian security forces arrested telecommunications engineer Bashar Ibrahim Abu Zeid in March. He is alleged to have entered Egypt...
Hundreds of Damietta and Sinanyah village residents on Tuesday morning blocked two roads leading to the MOPCO-Agrium factory in Damietta.
Protesters blocked the entrance to the factory and impeded workers’ movement through its front gate.
The...
Fifty Egyptian embassies abroad sent vote counts from the run-off elections to the Foreign Ministry, ministry spokesperson Amr Roshdy said Tuesday.
Roshdy told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the ministry is sending the results of the vote counts to the High...
Military police have removed a tent set up by supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) in Cairo's seventh constituency.
The constituency includes Gamaliya, Menshaat Nasser, al-Darb al-Ahmar, Bab al-Shariya...
Two people have died and 16 others wounded in battles over scarce butane gas cylinders in several governorates.
A 50-year-old man was killed in Assiut, and a 39-year-old in Aswan, when dozens of people intercepted two vans carrying cylinders.
In...
The success of Islamist candidates in the first phase of the parliamentary elections has shattered the hopes of liberals and socialists aiming to win at least 50 percent of seats in parliament.
The Brotherhood and the Salafis together won 40 percent...
EgyptAir announced Monday it will increase its number of flights to Libyan cities, starting on 7 December.
The airline will offer 21 flights per week instead of 11.
Hussein Massoud, head of EgyptAir Holding Company, told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the...
Scuffles erupted between supporters of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and the Salafi-led Nour Party at a polling station in Omar Ibn el-Khattab School in Ain Shams on Monday afternoon. Members of the army intervened to stop the disturbances,...
