The detention of Esraa El-Taweel, the young photojournalist who disappeared in June and later appeared in Qanater prison, was renewed by Cairo State Prosecution on Wednesday. The next session on her case will be held on 25 October.
El-Taweel, who (...)
Four Egyptians have been identified among the bodies of 10 migrants who were on a boat that capsized this Saturday attempting to cross the Mediterranean.
A rescue team recovered the 10 bodies and rescued 25 others from the boat, which reportedly (...)
The armed forces apprehended 2,215 migrants and 1,067 weapons in September, the spokesperson said Monday in a round-up of military campaigns to secure Egypt's borders and target illegal smuggling activities.
Brigadier General Mohamed Samir said (...)
The head of the team tasked with restructuring the operation of Egypt's leading newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm said that he will not negotiate with the workers protesting a slew of sackings as the outlet seeks to cut costs.
In comments to Daily News (...)
The Ministry of Antiquities has suffered a 90% drop in its funds and is operating with a large budget deficit, Minister Mamdouh Damati said Saturday, posing a risk to its ability to function effectively.
The severe reduction in the ministry's annual (...)
Tunisian and Sudanese authorities released a total of 24 fishermen on Sunday after the individuals were detained for breaching territorial waters, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Sudan released 15 Egyptian fishermen who were detained (...)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that preparations have been undertaken to allow next week's parliamentary elections for Egyptians voting abroad to be carried out smoothly.
In a press conference on Sunday, Minister Sameh Shoukry said that (...)
A Wednesday article by the New York Times has once again provoked the ire of Egypt's Foreign Ministry, whose spokesperson has said the paper tried to "obfuscate reality" in its coverage about Gazan border smugglers.
In a post published on the (...)
Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry spoke with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov to "coordinate" over the Syrian crisis, as Russia's military involvement in the conflict continues to garner criticism.
The two ministers agreed on the (...)
A long-time Egyptian fugitive, accused of the misuse of vast amounts of public funds, has been arrested in Lebanon by the Interpol, the Ministry of Interior said in a Tuesday press release.
The Lebanese division of the International Criminal Police (...)
The United Nations in Cairo has called out a local organisation that has pretended to be an official body of the international organisation, awarding titles in the UN's name.
The ‘International Goodwill Club' claims to belong to the Economic and (...)
Egypt is publicly backing the Russian military intervention in Syria, which it says will curb the spread of terrorism in the war-torn country and encourage a political resolution – despite the policy being a direct challenge to the involvement of (...)
Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry said that there is "no room for further procrastination" among Libyan parties to come to agreement on a national unity government, after the signing of a UN-backed deal was postponed for the third (...)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip has shown no signs of softening his attitude towards the Egyptian government, telling Al Jazeera Arabic in an interview published Friday that he "will not engage in normalisation regime", until the crackdown on former (...)
The Egyptian consulate in the Tunisian city of Djerba is following up on the case of 11 Egyptian fishermen who were detained on Tuesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' spokesperson said.
Spokesperson Ahmed Abu Zeid stated that Tunisian authorities (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's comments on press freedom during his trip to the United Nations General Assembly have continued to cause controversy back home in Egypt, where civil society bodies say the facts on the ground give the lie to his (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said Egypt enjoys more extensive freedom of expression than ever before, as he attends the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Critics, however, have called on political leaders not to be ‘fooled' by empty (...)
Three Muslim Brotherhood members received death sentences Monday for charges of violence in August 2013, with 68 others receiving prison sentences of between 10 years and life imprisonment.
The men sentenced to death by the Alexandria Criminal Court (...)
Work will begin in the coming days in Minya on a church that was planned to honour the deaths of 20 Egyptian Coptic Christians who died in a brutal sectarian attack by militants in Libya earlier this year.
Plans and licences for the ‘Church of the (...)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has praised comments made by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, in which the latter called on fellow Arab nations to follow Egypt's lead in having positive relations with the neighbouring state.
"The Government (...)
A book on the operations of Egypt's religious institutions has been at the centre of a row over whether it was banned from sale, with a local human rights organisation condemning the incident as censorship.
According to authors Hamdy Al-Assuity and (...)
Emad Hassan, a prisoner at the Tora detention facility, died on Friday in what family members and activists have called wilful neglect by prison officials in providing adequate medical care to prisoners. The comments come in light of a recent (...)
An anti-sexual harassment campaign group documented 87 cases of harassment in Downtown Cairo on the first day of the Eid Al-Adha public holiday, one of the worst days for the abuse in the Egyptian calendar.
The ‘I Saw Harassment' (Shoft Taharrosh) (...)
After his arrest on Tuesday, the 6 April Youth Movement's general coordinator Amr Ali has appeared in Tora Prison, according to information from the activist network Freedom for the Brave.
Coordinator of Freedom for the Brave, Khaled Abdel Hamid, (...)
By Emir Nader
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has voiced Egypt's concern about the delay of Libya's conflicting parties in reaching a political agreement to end the civil war, as two rival governments and numerous militias have fractured the state (...)