Daqahlia - The Mansoura Administrative Court on Tuesday halted the announcement of parliamentary election candidacy lists, saying the committee supervising the elections violated the constitution by indicating the religious status of candidates. The (...)
The Mansoura Administrative Court decided on Thursday to ban former National Democratic Party (NDP) members from running for parliamentary seats in Daqahlia Governorate.
The court ordered the governorate to stop accepting nominations from "fallen" (...)
Residents of Mansoura were surprised on Thursday evening to find the replica of a statue of Senusret III, which is located in front of the Talkha Bridge, lying on the ground off of its base.
The Supreme Council of Antiquities accused Salafis of (...)
Presidential candidate Amr Moussa received a mixed welcome on Monday during his visit to the Nile Delta city of Mansoura.
Moussa's supporters extended him a warm welcome, although members of the Muslim Brotherhood shouted slogans against him, (...)
One person was killed and eight others injured after two adjacent buildings collapsed on Monday in Daqahlia Governorate.
Security sources said civil defense teams retrieved the body of one person who was killed in the incident. Three passers-by were (...)
The Mansoura Criminal Court on Monday sentenced the brother of Salafi preacher Sheikh Mohamed Hassan and two others to three years in prison for forging official papers and documents related to private car ownership.
The case dates back to July 2007 (...)
Alexandria's security chief will begin trial at an Egyptian court Saturday, a judicial source said.
The Mansoura appeals court in Daqahlia decided to refer Maj. Gen. Ahmed Abdel Basset, formerly the Daqahlia security chief, and a number of his aides (...)
“There are certain secular journalists with personal agendas that incite against religion and feed sectarian strife,” said Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie. “I tell them, heed God's wrath.”
“They said the Imbaba violence represented (...)
Gunmen attacked police stations in three different cities on Tuesday, freeing scores of detainees from jail. One person was killed in the attacks and seven others wounded.
Residents helped the police defend the stations by forming human shields (...)
Manama -- Bahraini liberal Shia opposition leader and secretary general of the Democratic Progressive Forum Society, Hassan Madan, recently told Al-Masry Al-Youm the opposition in Bahrain is split in their reform aspirations.
In an exclusive (...)
The Ministry of Health announced today the 24th death from the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, in Daqahliya.
The case was that of a pregnant woman, Samar al-Sherbini, 28, who had been admitted to hospital after her condition deteriorated, said (...)
Mohamed al-Shabrawi, 47, died on Saturday after a reported altercation with a bakery owner in Daqahlia.
Eyewitnesses said after queuing for more than two hours, al-Shabrawi requested LE3 worth of bread, but the owner told him he could only buy LE1 (...)
Residents of Daqahliya's Sandeela district stormed a local polling station on Sunday to protest alleged vote rigging in favor of ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) candidates Noshi al-Basandeeli, who is competing for the workers' seat, and Magdi (...)
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) opposition movement has accused supporters of a parliamentary candidate for the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) of trying to kill the leader of the MB's parliamentary bloc, Mohamed Saad al-Katatni.
In a press (...)
A Mansoura criminal court postponed to 4 December the trial of 43 Egyptians accused of money laundering. The defendants are accused of hacking and seizing US$1,117,000 from Bank of America and Wells Fargo. Authorities suspect Americans coordinated (...)
Mansoura MP Walaa al-Husseini reportedly attacked parliamentary rival Hakem al-Sherbeeni and a number of the latter's supporters on Saturday, resulting in one death and five injuries.
Local security chief Mohamed Tolba said he had received reports (...)
Daqahlia--Around 6000 Egyptians have been gathered in front of Mansoura Stadium since yesterday morning, waiting for their share of food supply bags which the governorate gives to the needy before the month of Ramadan, which this year will begin on (...)
Supporters of Mohamed ElBaradei for president launched another round of their campaign in Alexandria on Tuesday. They are collecting signatures for the campaign's petition, entitled "Change."
"We have received an 85 percent positive response so (...)
Members of the National Association for Change (NAC) have agreed to boycott the upcoming People's Assembly elections if guarantees against vote rigging are not provided. They have also demanded that the November elections be subject to international (...)
Minister of Education Ahmed Zaki Badr has decided to grant an extra two months' salary to staff at the General Authority of Educational Buildings, and to reactivate the medical care provided to the staff in an attempt to solve the recent crisis (...)
The Cairo-based Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture has accused two police officers from the Beni Abid Police Department of torturing a Mansoura man before throwing him from the fourth floor of a police (...)
The defense team for Khaled Saeed, the young man allegedly beaten to death by police in Alexandria two weeks ago, has accused the Interior Ministry of forging the victim's criminal record.
According to defense lawyers, although Saeed had been (...)
The repercussions of the recent Shura Council elections continued in several governorates with the arrests of number of supporters of various candidates and the release of others.
In the Beheira Governorate, Yasir Zaky, attorney general for the (...)
Daqahlia--Gamal Mubarak, the head of the National Democratic Party's powerful Policies Secretariat and the son of President Hosni Mubarak, said in a meeting in Mansoura yesterday that his party is no longer "on the defensive."
Mubarak said that (...)
Attending the Coptic festival of St. Dimyana, the 4th century founder of female monasticism, Minister of Religious Endowments (Awqaf) Hamdi Zaqzouq said that the mistreatment of Coptic Christians in Egypt was "unacceptable."
He added that places of (...)