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The president’s office rejected the proposal of the National Salvation Front and other opposition groups to form a national salvation government, presidential spokesperson Yasser Ali said. “There is only two months or less left before...
The Muslim Brotherhood lost 55 percent of syndicate subcommittee seats in the Doctors Syndicate elections that took place on Friday, announced representatives from the Independence list, which is a list of independent candidates supported by liberal...
Hundreds of Egyptian doctors arrived at the headquarters of the doctors' general election committee at Al-Azhar Conference Center Friday morning to participate in the first Doctors Syndicate election since they were suspended 20 years ago. The...
Ahmed Atef, the coordinator of Doctors' Youth Coalition, mysteriously disappeared while on duty at Nile Hospital in Shubra, said Engy Abdallah, a doctor and one of the coordinators of an ongoing doctors strike, on Thursday morning. The Doctors...
Amnesty International described a video of police and army officers torturing detainees that was recently released online as “deeply unsettling” Thursday and expressed concern that the detainees might still be subjected to torture and...
Egypt ranks 73 on the Global Peace Index 2011, published on Wednesday by the Vision of Humanity Foundation, a non-profit organization comprising a group of advocates for world peace based in Australia. Iceland ranks in first place as the most...
A Spanish court has rejected a request by fugitive Egyptian business tycoon Hussein Salem to reduce his bail of five million euros. An Egyptian source said Salem will remain under house arrest until a verdict is issued against him. The source also...
BARCELONA - At its weekly meeting on Friday, the Spanish government gave the green light to approve Egypt's request to extradite businessman Hussein Salem, who holds Egyptian and Spanish nationalities. This came at the...
Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Ahmed Fathallah on Tuesday flew to Spain to attend the inauguration of the new secretary general at the Union for the Mediterranean. Sources said Fathallah discussed the case of wanted Egyptian business tycoon Hussein...
Spain's attorney general has asked that Egyptian business tycoon Hussein Salem be kept under house arrest, event after he pays his bail of 27 million euros, fearing he might escape from Spain, according to Spanish judicial sources. The sources...