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The butane gas cylinder crisis is now over in Cairo, after several days of flooding the market with additional cylinders, Cairo Governor Abdel Qawy Khaleefa announced on Thursday. According to the governor, gas cylinders are being distributed under...
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) announced Thursday that it will not join a 50-member civilian advisory council being formed by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) but did not explain the reasons behind its...
The cabinet of recently-appointed Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri was sworn in Wednesday, but many of the faces in the “new” cabinet are familiar officials promoted from within ministries in a move that some activists find at odds with...
Islamist successes in the first phase of the parliamentary elections have raised fears among those working in tourism, especially in light of Salafi statements questioning policies and practices within the industry. “The Muslims did not...
Rashid al-Ghannouchi, president of the Tunisian Ennahda Party, which gained the majority of votes in recent parliamentary elections and formed the new government, has urged the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt to form a coalition with the liberals and...
In a press conference on Wednesday evening, high elections committee (HEC) head Abdel Moez Ibrahim said the HEC would announce the results of run-offs from the first round of Egypt's parliamentary elections soon. Abdel Moez told Al-Masry Al-Youm...
Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri’s new cabinet was sworn in on Wednesday before Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, head of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF). The new cabinet includes 12 ministers from former PM Essam...
A report has detected that security forces committed violations against monitors and candidate representatives during runoffs for the first round of parliamentary elections. The report, released on Wednesday, was conducted by the Lawyers Syndicate...
Hundreds of residents of Bergaya village blocked train traffic for two hours in Minya as they lay down on the rails during a protest over a butane gas shortage. Ezzat Hamza, the governorate's deputy minister of social solidarity, sent 300 butane...
Rebuilding Palestine's Gaza Strip will be a priority for Egypt's Engineers Syndicate, said newly-elected syndicate chief Maged Kholousy. The reconstruction of Gaza will help restore stability to the region, Kholousy, who is a member of the...