CAIRO: EgyptAir decided today December 13 to cut its ticket prices by 20 percent to help support the “Buy Egyptian” campaign that beginning on Friday 16.
The campaign calls on all Egyptians to purchase only Egyptian products this Friday.
All (...)
CAIRO: EgyptAir today decided to cut its ticket prices by 20 percent to help support the “Buy Egyptian” campaign.
The campaign calls on all Egyptians to purchase only Egyptian products this Friday.
All seat grades (economy, first class, (...)
DURBAN, South Africa: Egyptian arable land is being eroded by building and land degradation, according to a report by the United Nations environmental program delivered at the climate summit in Durban, South Africa.
Arable lands are turning (...)
WASHINGTON: The Egyptian Advisory Council will cease its duties until a new president is elected, said Egyptian Defense Attaché to the U.S. Mohamed el-Keshky.
Keshky's statements came during a meeting with U.S. congressmen.
The Supreme Council (...)
MEDINA, Saudi Arabia: There were 18 people killed and 22 injured in a road accident in Quraeda, eastern Medina.
The passenger bus crashed into another vehicle after the end of their workday heading home. Six Egyptians were killed and two injured, (...)
AMMAN: Egyptians abroad began their voting in the second phase of the parliamentary elections in Jordan on Thursday December 8 as the Egyptian Embassy in Jordan received the voting envelope by mail or by hand.
The voting will last from December 8 (...)
CAIRO: Arab stock exchange praised the effort exerted by the Egyptian stock exchange after the Egyptian January 25 Revolution, said the chairman of Egyptian stock market, Mohammad Omran.
The meetings of the Arab stock exchange in Abu Dhabi in the (...)
BERLIN: The Egyptian Embassy in Berlin started counting votes for this week's runoff of the first phase of the Egyptian parliamentary elections on Tuesday.
Only 80 voting envelops have been sent to the Embassy.
Counting is being conducted (...)
CAIRO: The Supreme Electoral Committee has not issued any decisions to stop the runoff elections in four Alexandrian constituencies, said head of the monitoring judicial committee Ahmed el-Gamal.
Gamal said he sent a statement with the Alexandria (...)
PARIS: Egyptian expatriates in France are voting in the runoff of the parliamentary elections' first phase on Monday.
Voting will end at 2pm in the Egyptian Embassy in France, according to instructions from Egypt's Supreme Electoral Committee (...)
CAIRO: A delegation from the U.S. Congress met with the head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, to discuss the first post-revolution parliamentary elections and judicial monitoring, said Congressman David Dreier (...)
WASHINGTON: The importance and results of the current transitional period in Egypt should not be underestimated, said Secretary of States Deputy William Burns, who noted that Egypt has been leading the Arab world economically, and politically over a (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen succeeded in getting Yemeni approval for the release of Egyptian boat Nassr al-Islam (Islam's Victory), said Egyptian Assistant Foreign Minister of Consular Affairs Ahmed Ragheb.
Nassr al-Islam was (...)
CAIRO: Deputy Egyptian Prime Minister Ali el-Selmy on Saturday denied having resigned, underlining that he will never give up his supra-constitutional principles document.
“The Muslim Brotherhood took part in the drafting of the document and they (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Revolutionaries Alliance welcomed the Arab League's decisions to suspend Syrian membership in the Arab League.
The alliance called on Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf to make Egypt the first country to withdraw its (...)
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia: Twenty Egyptian pilgrims were injured in a road accident Friday after their bus overturned in the Saudi Arabian city of Taif.
The pilgrims were returning to Riyadh after performing the pilgrimage.
Three of the pilgrims (...)
CAIRO: Dozens of members from the Social and Popular Alliance Party and Maspiro Youth Union staged a march on Friday November 11 after gathering outside St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Al-Abasseya district in Cairo, to memorialize the (...)
NORTH SINAI, Egypt: Fire broke out in the main Egyptian-Israeli gas pipeline and has been controlled, security sources said. GASCO Company is responsible for closing the connecting valves in the main gas pipeline that links between two gas stations, (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Bloc announced on today November 9 threatened to boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections as a response to the Supreme Electoral Committee's (SEC) decision of refusing to unify the Bloc's electoral code.
In a statement, (...)
CAIRO: It is possible Israel could wage war on all fonts to protect Israeli territories, the Israeli Chief of General Staff Benny Gantz said.
It is possible that Israel could remobilize all its troops to fight all fronts for its security, Israeli (...)
CAIRO: A bill to enfranchise Egyptians abroad is being drafted as an amendment to Egypt's constitutional declaration.
The bill would allow Egyptians residing abroad to vote in upcoming parliamentary elections under the supervision of diplomats (...)
GAZA: There are claims of Hamas accepting the Egypt-mandated truce between the Gaza Strip and Israel after mutual rockets was launched from both sides because of conducting the prison swap deal. Hamas denied presence of any links between the truce (...)
CAIRO: The Netherlands is the sixth largest commercial partner and investor in Egypt on the European level, according to Dutch Ambassador to Egypt Susan Blankhart.
Blankhart said both countries cooperate in many sectors, such as agriculture, (...)
WASHINGTON: The Egyptian April 6 Youth Movement will be reviewing the status of the January 25 Revolution, the future of Egypt and the next steps needed to best coordinate with the U.S. to meet the goals of the Arab Spring.
In a session titled, (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Today Egypt was elected to chair the second session of the United Nations Economic Committee for Human and Social Development in Africa.
The decision came during a meeting at the UN Conference Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The (...)