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Power went out more than once at the Cairo International Airport on Wednesday, causing some X-ray machines to go out of order. Official sources at the airport said electricity was cut twice at Arrival Hall 3 on Tuesday, prompting passengers to use...
Prosecutor General Talaat Abdallah approved on Monday the Supreme State Funds Prosecution’s decision to keep a file open regarding charges filed against Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb, who was accused of squandering public funds. The...
Deputy Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Khairat al-Shater denied that he interferes in the management of state affairs. In statements he gave at the Cairo International Airport before departing to Qatar on his way to Malaysia, Shater said,...
Hot air balloon flights resumed on Sunday morning, with Luxor Governor Ezzat Saad being one of the first passengers to go on a flight. Hot air balloons were grounded for two months following the deaths of 19 passengers, mostly tourists, in a...
  President Mohamed Morsy is heading to Russia on Thursday, marking the first official visit of an elected Egyptian president. He will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the coastal city of Sochi, where they will discuss the latest...
The Egyptian Jewish Community Council has selected Magda Haroun as its new head succeeding Carmen Weinstein, who died on Saturday aged 82. The funeral will be held on Thursday. Haroun said she was chosen after a meeting for the community, about 20...
Tourism Police in Luxor have managed to reopen the Valley of the Queens and Deir al-Madina for tourists after the governor responded to demands of local residents. Brigadier Hosni Hussein, monuments and tourism detective for the southern portion of...
North Sinai police seized on Thursday explosives in a stock in the governorate’s capital of Arish. A security source said on Friday that explosives and weapons were seized by police in Be’r al-Hefn, south of the city. The stock...
Israel’s primary airliner, EL AL, has closed its office at Cairo International Airport and halted flights between Cairo and Tel Aviv since late 2012, according to airport sources who said the company, since then, has not requested any renewal...
A mortar shell landed in the garden of the Egyptian Embassy in Damascus Tuesday evening. No injuries were immediately reported. The embassy is in the Kafr Susa district near Syria’s Interior Ministry, which was targeted by a bombing last...