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Presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi has said he would support resistance in Lebanon and Palestine against Israel if he became president. “I will support Hamas and Hezbollah in their endeavor,” he said. “The fate of the peace...
More than 600 workers at Tanta railway station in the Gharbiya Governorate have entered their second day of protests. They demand that their bonuses be equal to those of their colleagues who work on long-distance rail transit. After a similar...
The military broke up a sit-in in front of Gharbiya Governorate headquarters on Saturday afternoon. The sit-in was staged by various political groups including the 6 April Youth Movement and the Freedom and Justice Party. Protesters...
A number of political parties and human rights groups are attempting to destabilize Egypt by utilizing grants estimated at LE1 billion, which had been allocated by the United States and the European Union (EU) to support the country, an Egyptian...
Novelist Alaa Hamed, representative of the Egyptian Secular Party, accused Salafi leaders of destroying the fence around his house with bulldozers on Tuesday. He said the reason for the destruction, which took place in the village of Zefta, Gharbiya...
Hundreds of Sufis reached Tanta Thursday evening to celebrate the birthday of revered Sufi al-Sayyid Ahmad al-Badawī. They staged marches throughout the city and some distributed leaflets attacking Salafis and calling them the enemies of Islam. One...
Ousted President Hosni Mubarak has so far escaped investigation in connection with the killing of demonstrators during the 25 January revolution because none of the suspects in the case have implicated him in their testimonies, according to a...
A Public Prosecution investigation has revealed that former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly placed five snipers at the window of his office in the interior ministry, and that some of them shot at people who were demonstrating around the building on...
Authorities at the city of Mahalla, an Egyptian laborers hub west of Cairo, beefed up security at the city's entrances on Tuesday in anticipation of labor protests. Meanwhile, political groups in the city circulated leaflets urging citizens to...
More than 350 horse cart owners on Wednesday staged protests in the Nile Delta city of Mahala against being banned from the city’s main streets under the pretext that they obstruct traffic. Demanding that authorities revoke the decision, they...