Amr al-Shobky wins court battle to replace Mansour in parliament
Egypt
July 21, 2016
Amr al-Shobky wins court battle to replace Mansour in parliament
Amr al-Shobky has won the right to represent the Dokki and Agouza constituency in parliament, replacing MP Ahmed Mortada Mansour,…
Amr al-Batanony, naval officer of 1970 Eilat bombing, dies at 73
Egypt
July 20, 2016
Amr al-Batanony, naval officer of 1970 Eilat bombing, dies at 73
Amr Ibrahim al-Batanony, one of the Egyptian soldiers who implemented the blowing up of Eilat port during the war of…
Contracts for Dabaa nuclear reactor to be signed soon
Egypt
July 20, 2016
Contracts for Dabaa nuclear reactor to be signed soon
Russia's nuclear corporation Rosatom and the Egyptian government will sign contracts for the Dabaa nuclear power station soon, according to…
Ethiopia will not stop building dam regardless of impact study results: Minister
Egypt
July 20, 2016
Ethiopia will not stop building dam regardless of impact study results: Minister
Ethiopian Irrigation and Water Minister Motuma Mikasa has stated that neither tripartite talks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam nor…
Spiritual head of Shia sect offers LE10 million to Tahya Masr Fund
Egypt
July 19, 2016
Spiritual head of Shia sect offers LE10 million to Tahya Masr Fund
Mufaddal Saifuddin, spiritual head of the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community, made a LE10 million donation to the Tahya Masr Fund…
Young Egyptian inventors make final of Google Science fair
Science
July 19, 2016
Young Egyptian inventors make final of Google Science fair
Three young Egyptian women have qualified for the final of the Google Science Fair competition, representing the MENA region with…
Miss Earth Netherlands attends Red Sea UN forum on biological diversity
Egypt
July 19, 2016
Miss Earth Netherlands attends Red Sea UN forum on biological diversity
Talisa Wolters, the winner of the pageant Miss Earth Netherlands 2014 and runner up Miss Eco 2015, attended a four-day…
Parliamentary committee discusses Regeni and Italian military exports halt
Egypt
July 19, 2016
Parliamentary committee discusses Regeni and Italian military exports halt
Major General Kamal Amer, head of the parliamentary committee formed to address the crisis over the murder in Cairo of…
A week on: Al-Azhar scholars’ objections to scripted Friday sermons
Egypt
July 18, 2016
A week on: Al-Azhar scholars’ objections to scripted Friday sermons
A week ago, government authorities announced the decision to make all mosque preachers deliver an identical, government-approved sermon during Friday…
Egypt purchases 300,000 tonnes of wheat from Russia, Romania
Business
July 18, 2016
Egypt purchases 300,000 tonnes of wheat from Russia, Romania
Egypt's Supply Minister Khaled Hanafi announced in a statement Sunday plans to buy 300,000 tonnes of wheat from Russian and…