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Security forces seized 40 pieces that make up the top parts of Pharaonic Shawabti figurines, an Egyptian security source said on Thursday. The artifacts were stolen from the Cairo University excavation warehouses located in the archeological Saqqara...
Sinai police have been attacked about 50 times by armed Palestinian jihadi groups and a local branch of Al-Qaeda since the 25 January uprising, according to security sources. The attacks have been carried out particularly in the mountains of central...
  The head of the Illicit Gains Authority on Sunday called on the media to be accurate about the presumed wealth of former President Hosni Mubarak and other officials from his regime. “The media claims they have billions abroad whereas...
Resuming football match play in the country will be impossible as police will be incapable of securing the matches, said the interior minister on Sunday. Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said the situation in Port Said has calmed down, but...
A committee of 11 parliamentarians visited the Tora prison hospital on Wednesday to see what preparations are being made to receive ousted President Hosni Mubarak, sources at the prisons department of the Interior Ministry told Al-Masry Al-Youm. The...
Egypt's Interior Ministry announced on Monday it had arrested two people for alleged involvement in stealing equipment from Dabaa, the site of the country's planned nuclear power station, northwest of Cairo.  Security sources told Al-...
The Interior Ministry’s Prisons Department released blogger Maikel Nabil from Tora prison on Tuesday. Nabil has been in detention since March 2011 and was sentenced to two years by a military tribunal. Head of the ruling military council,...
The Spanish National Court (SNC), or Audiencia Nacional, located in Madrid held its first hearing Thursday to consider Egypt’s demand to extradite Khaled Salem, son of Hussein Salem, who faces charges of money laundering. A Spanish legal...
Assem al-Gohary, head of the Illicit Gains Authority (IGA), has received an official letter from the Swiss prosecution saying it is undertaking an extensive investigation into allegations about former President Hosni Mubarak, his wife Suzanne, and...
Egypt’s military leader Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi has ordered the formation of a committee of high-ranking army generals tasked with ensuring the Egyptian armed forces are given positive media coverage. The new body — to be called...