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Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Araby embarked on a tour of Arab countries on Wednesday, starting in Beirut, Lebanon, where he will discuss the situation in Syria.
The tour will also include Qatar, Kuwait and Iraq, which Araby will be...
A clean-up effort is underway as authorities try to contain an oil leak at five exploration areas in Gamsha Bay, north of Hurghada.
Environment officials have filed two reports against the General Petroleum Authority (GPA), which has the concession...
Security forces on Monday put an end to the Ashura celebrations of nearly 3000 Shias inside Cairo's Hussein Mosque.
The event, which marks the death of the Prophet Mohamed's grandson Imam Hussein, was attended by senior figures from Egypt...
The Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) leads this week's run-offs for the first phase of the parliamentary elections, judges overseeing the elections have said of the initial results.
The FJP has won 22 of the 52 seats contested in the run-offs,...
Fragmentation, alienation from voters, propaganda, and a lack of electoral experience are behind the underwhelming performance of liberals and young revolutionaries in the parliamentary elections so far, according to political experts.
Hossam al-...
Candidates in the current parliamentary elections are making use of poor children to distributing campaign literature, paying them in cash for their work.
Mohamed Hassan, 10, and his brother Wael, 9, have spent the past few days distributing...
The High Elections Commission (HEC) will annul the parliamentary candidacy of anyone using religious slogans if he or she is officially reported and the commission can verify the allegations, said the commission's head on Tuesday.
Abdel Moez...
Some 77,119 Egyptians living abroad cast their votes in the run-offs for the first phase of the parliamentary elections, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. It said it received voting results on Tuesday morning.
Al-Masry Al-Youm obtained a list of...
Egypt's new prime minister, Kamal al-Ganzouri, said on Tuesday that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) will amend the Interim Constitution, granting presidential powers to the prime minister.
Amendments will be made to Article...
French energy company Total is on the verge of signing a contract with the Egyptian Petrochemicals Holding Company to establish a US$3 billion plant for the production of olefins by steam cracking of natural gas, said a Petroleum Ministry official....
