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The fishing boat "Sayed Abu Ali" arrived at the port of Suez Tuesday, bringing five fishermen--detained by Saudi Arabian authorities last week for entering the kingdom's territorial waters--back to their native Egypt.
According to the...
Veterinarian doctors staged a protest Monday in front of the Egyptian Medical Association's Cairo headquarters, demanding that President Hosni Mubarak form a new ministerial portfolio devoted exclusively to animal resources and veterinary medicine....
Coptic Bishop Kirolos of the southern city of Naga Hammadi said Monday that he had been the main target of last week's shooting spree at a local church in which seven people were killed. "I was shot at while leaving the church just before...
Seven cars, including a van carrying containers filled with natural gas, collided Sunday just outside the canal city of Ismailia. The accident, in which five people were seriously injured, closed the Ismailia-Cairo road for more than five hours.
The...
Egyptian authorities have resumed building a steel wall on the Sinai-Gaza border yesterday, after work was put on hold for three days as Palestinian snipers targeted construction equipment. In a related development, Egypt has proposed making...
Egypt’s local public debt has exceeded LE689 billion for the first time in the country’s history, a report by the Ministry of Finance has revealed. Government debt represents 58.5 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), compared to...
More than 300 participants in the Mubarak Social Housing Project protested Tuesday in front of the Beni Sueif Municipal Council south of Cairo. Protesters demanded that the government rescind a recent decision to increase the price of single housing...
The delta city of Damanhour now looks more like a military encampment, with tight security measures being put in place for some 600 Israelis coming today to celebrate the anniversary of the death of Abu Hasira, a 19th-century Jewish Rabbi whose...
The campaign to vaccinate school students against H1N1, commonly known as swine flu, was launched Sunday in six different governorates.
In Alexandria, some parents refused to vaccinate their children. They feared the vaccine could cause cancer, they...
Parliament members from the ruling National Democratic Party and the opposition Muslim Brotherhood clashed on Sunday over the construction of an underground steel wall along the Sinai-Gaza border.
Arguments started when the Brotherhood bloc...
