Peace returned to Dimshaw Hashim village in Minya on Friday after eight days of sectarian clashes between Muslims and Coptic Christians. The conflicts began after a house belonging to a Coptic Christian man was attacked, following his plans to transform...اقرأ المزيد
Egypt’s Higher Administrative Court has upheld a verdict to relieve a police officer of his position for refusing to shave his beard, despite earlier warnings by his superiors in the ministry, reported Al-Masry Al-Youm. The court based its decision...اقرأ المزيد
The Egyptian Media Group, owned by Eagle Capital, has financially acquired the Future Media Group, which owns Egypt’s Capital Broadcasting Center (CBC) network. Egyptian Media Group previously owned only 30 percent of the CBC network. Relatedly, Al-Mal...اقرأ المزيد
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi has ratified an agreement between Egypt’s government and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), to allow the FAO to implement a plan for clean sources of Egyptian agriculture – including solar...اقرأ المزيد
A Monday tram collision in Heliopolis (Greater Cairo) resulted in the injury of one person, who has received hospital treatment, according to Deputy Cairo Governor Ibrahim Saber. The governor denied reports of other injuries by news outlets. In a phone...اقرأ المزيد
Qalyubia Security Directorate arrested a woman on Wednesday, on charges of fatally poisoning her abusive husband and four children in al-Ramla village, Banha city on September 2. The unnamed housewife hid poison in her family’s dinner, promptly killing...اقرأ المزيد
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi lawmakers who met this week for the first time since a May election and are still struggling to form a new government, decided on Tuesday to put off their next meeting until Sept. 15, having failed to elect a parliament speaker. Naming...اقرأ المزيد
With Tehran’s support, Moscow has renewed its airstrikes against the last major rebel stronghold in Syria. The US had warned that Russia risked causing a major humanitarian catastrophe. The Kremlin restarted its bombing campaign on the Syrian city of...اقرأ المزيد
The US Embassy in Cairo announced on its official Facebook page that business was back as usual, following false concerns over a bomb attack earlier today. “Police have finished their investigations at the scene of the incident. The Embassy is resuming...اقرأ المزيد
Egypt’s Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation refuted reports that the white substance recently found in some tomatoes was poisonous, on Tuesday. Through the national cabinet’s media center, the ministry stressed that the tomato was free from...اقرأ المزيد