Egypt
Egypt makes progress in curing Hepatitis C by reducing drug price: WHO
October 27, 2016
Egypt makes progress in curing Hepatitis C by reducing drug price: WHO
Egypt, one of the countries with the highest prevalence of hepatitis-C virus, treated more people infected by the virus than…
Egypt jumps up 56 ranks in World Bank Electricity Production list
October 27, 2016
Egypt jumps up 56 ranks in World Bank Electricity Production list
Egypt ranks 88 for electricity production in the World Bank's 2017 Doing Business report, progressing 56 places up the rankings…
Foreign Ministry slams analyst for ‘shallow’ article in Foreign Affairs
October 27, 2016
Foreign Ministry slams analyst for ‘shallow’ article in Foreign Affairs
Egypt's Foreign Ministry has slammed Middle East analyst Steven Cook for his article published in Foreign Affairs journal criticizing Egypt’s…
Egyptian media unwittingly harms the national interest: Sisi
October 27, 2016
Egyptian media unwittingly harms the national interest: Sisi
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has accused Egyptian media outlets of unintentionally causing harm to Egypt's interests and relations with other…
Italian student’s murder in Egypt is ‘open wound’: Italian minister
October 27, 2016
Italian student’s murder in Egypt is ‘open wound’: Italian minister
The case of Italian student Giulio Regeni, who was murdered in Egypt in February, is an "open wound" for Italy,…
Four policemen remanded into custody over Ismailia prison break-out
October 27, 2016
Four policemen remanded into custody over Ismailia prison break-out
Ismailia prosecutors ordered Thursday the detention of another four low-ranking police officers in relation to al-Mostakbal Central Prison break-out on…
Court confirms life sentence for Mohamed Badie over 2013 violence
October 27, 2016
Court confirms life sentence for Mohamed Badie over 2013 violence
Mohamed Badie, the Muslim Brotherhood's former Supreme Guide, has lost his appeal against a life prison sentence for involvement in…
Floods hit Red Sea governorate, traffic blocked on some roads
October 27, 2016
Floods hit Red Sea governorate, traffic blocked on some roads
Flooding caused traffic disruption on some roads in the Red Sea governorate on Wednesday as metorologists warned that heavy rain…
Married couples detained over alleged wife-swapping Facebook page
October 27, 2016
Married couples detained over alleged wife-swapping Facebook page
South Cairo Prosecution has renewed the detention of several people on charges of running a Facebook account promoting wife-swapping activities.
November 11 protests: popular uprising or damp squib?
October 26, 2016
November 11 protests: popular uprising or damp squib?
A social media campaign called “Haraket Ghalaba” (poor people's movement) has emerged in the past month, calling on Egyptian citizens…