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Four Coptic Egyptians detained by Libyan authorities for several weeks over charges of spreading Christianity have returned home. According to a statement Tuesday, the Egyptian Embassy in Tripoli had worked closely with its Libya counterparts to...
Hot air balloon tours are set to resume in Luxor on Wednesday after a hiatus of nearly six weeks following a deadly accident that killed 19 tourists. The announcement was made by Civil Aviation Authority Chairman Mohamed Sherif on Tuesday. “...
Pope Tawadros II called on Al-Azhar to expand its Family House initiative as part of efforts to boost patriotism and reconciliation between Muslims and Christians. According to state-run MENA news agency, the pope's remarks came during a...
Mohamed Omar Wahby, head of the Cabinet’s Administrative Control Authority, has said that frozen assets in Switzerland and England amount of a value of US$934 million associated with more than 200 figures affiliated to the former regime....
Bilateral trade between Egypt and Saudi Arabia grew by 20 percent last year in transactions worth US$30 billion, said Egyptian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Afifi Abdel Wahab on Monday. The trade balance is in favor of Saudi Arabia, as Egypt imported...
All Nile Basin countries should unite around the issue of sharing the Nile’s water, instead of fighting over it, said Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr in a meeting with his Eritrean counterpart Othman Saleh and the Eritrean ambassador in...
Information Minister Salah Abdel Maqsoud decided to grant 10 percent of the revenues of advertising, which are broadcast on television and radio stations, for the channel’s own workers. Those working in the sectors of main channels,...
The Christian family accused of sparking the sectarian violence in Khosous surrendered to police Monday out of fear they would face assaults. Samir Iskander, his son Naguib and Nasim Farouk Awad were referred to the public prosecution for...
The Wafd Party would neither run in the upcoming parliamentary elections nor participate in the planned national dialogue unless the regime responds to the opposition’s demands to replace Cabinet ministers and appoint a new prosecutor general...
The Cairo Court of Appeals set Monday as the date to consider a grievance former President Hosni Mubarak submitted, in which he requested his release pending retrial. Mubarak’s lawyer, Farid al-Deeb, said in the petition that Mubarak has been...