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The Egyptian Journalists Syndicate said on Wednesday that it has resolved the problem between al-Shorouk newspaper’s administration and its online journalists. Khaled al-Balshy, a member of the Journalists Syndicate council, said al-Shorouk...
Protesters continued their sit-in for a third day outside Monufiya's local governorate office on Wednesday, demonstrating against the appointment of Muslim Brotherhood member Ahmed Sharawy as the new governor. Demonstrators blocked the main gate...
Calm returned to Gharbiya governorate Wednesday morning following clashes that erupted in Tanta and Mahalla on Tuesday between protesters and Brotherhood supporters. Mahalla City, a stronghold of Egypt’s labor movement, has been witnessing...
Suez police forces on Tuesday seized a truck loaded with explosives bound for South Sinai. The truck, which was seized by police forces at the Ahmed Hamdy tunnel, was reportedly carrying half a tonne of mortar, an explosive material used in the...
Finance Minister Fayyad Abdel Moneim said Monday that customs revenues hit LE14.15 billion between July 2012 and May 2013. LE1.019 billion of that figure had been accumulated in May alone, he said in a statement, with sales taxes on imports...
The Saudi health authority in the city of Medina on Monday sentenced an Egyptian doctor accused of performing male circumcisions without a license to six months in prison and ordered him to pay a fine of 100,000 Saudi riyals. The doctor's...
A recent survey conducted by the Egyptian Centre for Public Opinion Research, Basira, has shown that 54 percent of Egyptians are in favour of early presidential elections. Forty-two percent approve of President Mohamed Morsy, and 46 percent...
Egypt's Foreign Ministry has confirmed it has not received any complaints alleging ill-treatment or discrimination from Ethiopians living in the country. “We welcome our Ethiopian brothers,” said assistant Foreign Minister for...
The Cairo Criminal Court is convening on 27 July for the first session of the new trial of Mohamed Ibrahim Suleiman, former Housing Minister, Samir Abdel Qawy, chairman of the Sixth of October Company for Agricultural Reclamation and Reconstruction...
United Nations and Arab League Special Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi left for Paris Sunday morning after a short visit to Egypt. Brahimi discussed the Syrian crisis with a number of Egyptian officials, including Arab League Secretary General Nabil...