CAIRO: Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb denounced attempts by Egyptian Shias to commemorate the death of Hussein Ibn Ali on Monday.
Al-Tayeb said Egypt does not need doctrines promoting hatred against Caliphs, who allegedly came after the (...)
The governorate of Port Said is witnessing a security alert on an unprecedented scale from civil police forces and military forces, pressured to arrest the criminals who commit the kidnapping in the governorate.
Residents of Port Said are (...)
CAIRO: A total of 75 candidates will file lawsuits to nullify the first stage of parliamentary elections in Cairo's first district. The suit will be filed in the administrative court, said Fekry Mustafa, one candidates in Cairo's first (...)
Youm7 launched its new news service to cover the election with audio and video through its new electronic site election.youm7.com.
The new site reports everything during the electoral process, through a distinguished collection of departments, (...)
CAIRO: Central Security Forces are shooting hundreds of the protesters in Mohamed Mahmoud Street with teargas as the clashes started there again. Hundreds of protesters are trying to go to the Ministry of Interior.
Protesters chanted different (...)
The official spokesman of the Egyptian Ministry of Health said that 192 were wounded and three were killed in clashes in Cairo's Tahrir Square Sunday.
Activists put the number much higher, at 1,000 injured. The Associated Press said at least four (...)
CAIRO: The political group inside the Egyptian cabinet, headed by Deputy Prime Minister Ali al-Selmy, is reviewing proposed amendments to a draft of constitutional principles.
Selmy expressed preliminary approval of the amendments when meeting (...)
Eleven Hungarian tourists died and 26 were wounded on Sunday after a tourist bus collided with a truck near Hurghada, on the Red Sea.
Authorities in Hurghada City, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, will transfer the wounded to hospitals (...)
The armed forces managed to control the fire on the Egyptian ferry “Billa” that was coming for Jordan.
The military council's Statement 79 announced that all passengers on the ferry were saved without any casualties, and they are controlling the (...)
An Arab peace plan was approved by Syria Wednesday after Arab foreign ministers met, seeking to end violence plaguing the country for months.
The Syrian government approved the following items:
1- The cessation of the violent actions against (...)
Egyptian newspapers today covered various topics. Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie said the group will never give up the slogan, " Islam is the solution," and Sobhy Saleh said the MB seeks to apply Islamic Sharia (...)
CAIRO: Academic and political scientist Amr Hamzawy today rejected the proposed complete political isolation of members of Egypt's formerly ruling National Democratic Party.
Hamzawy is the under-secretary of the Egypt Freedom Party. His comments (...)
Egyptian media reported the prominent Egyptian author Anis Mansour died on October 21, how Amr Hamzawy demanded the military council and the Egyptian government to apologize to Egyptians for the Maspiro clashes.
Lecturer of political science and (...)
Youm7 will distribute Revolutionary awards to those who changed the course of history in a competition at Studio Misr restaurant in Azhar park on Tuesday October 11 at 7:00 P.M.
Youm7 launched the competition in its daily newspaper during the (...)
Security forces around Egyptian Churches were reinforced, according to security sources.
Gharbia governorate's Security directorate declared a security alert for all governorate forces following the Maspiro incidents.
The directorate also (...)
The Egyptian cabinet held an emergency meeting at 11 am Monday morning to follow the developments of clashes that took place outside of Maspero, a building in downtown Cairo that hosts several Egyptian television stations.
The meeting began with (...)
Military police arrested dozens of protestors in Cairo Sunday night, after they barraged police with rocks and Molotov cocktails, with some accounts reporting gunfire.
Calm has returned to the area around Maspero as the clashes moved (...)
Security forces broke up protests in downtown Cairo Sunday evening, after multiple clashes erupted between military police and Coptic Christians protesting sectarian violence in Upper Egypt and Muslims that have joined the protestors in (...)
Reactions from Egyptian political parties regarding the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces' latest statement varied from party to party.
The Egyptian Social Democratic Party sent the military council a statement Monday that included the party's (...)
Cairo's Tahrir Square was calm Saturday, after military police forcibly broke-up a sit-in of 100 protesters by removing their tents.
Security forces controlled the square's entrances and the exits, and more than 20 security vehicles were (...)
Egyptian media reported renewed clashes between Muslims and Christians in Edfu in Southern Egypt. Al-Ahram held an interview with the former Egyptian Minister of Media, Mohamed Fayek. The former president of Al-Jazeera channel said what WikiLeaks (...)
Egypt's press today reported that Israelis protested outside the Egyptian consulate in Eilat to bring down the Egyptian flag. Also, Egypt's ruling military council is studying the political response against Islamists' (...)
Former Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq's Alexandria seminar, scheduled for today, is now canceled, reported Ahmed al-Hammamy, the coordinator for Alexandria Revolts' Union.
There were allegations floating around earlier that the seminar was (...)
Egyptian newspapers today reported that the Egyptian ruling military council may move the parliamentary elections to October 4.
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Egyptian political parties today reported that the ruling military council intends to postpone (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's Islamist groups have decided to boycott a march planned for tomorrow against the Emergency Law.
Seventeen political movements and parties have announced their participation in tomorrow's march, which will last from 4-6pm. There (...)