Al-Azhar, the world’s top Muslim Sunni institution, said Friday that it would lead humanitarian efforts on an international level to stop the massacre, genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. “This barbarian and inhuman events...اقرأ المزيد
Egyptian authorities made an exception to open the Rafah border crossing in North Sinai, for the return of Palestinian pilgrims coming from Cairo Airport to the Gaza Strip, after Hajj in Saudi Arabia. An official source at the crossing said that additional...اقرأ المزيد
Egypt has blocked the website of Human Rights Watch just one day after the organization released a report on systematic torture in the country’s jails. Reuters attempted to access the website late on Thursday but was unsuccessful. “Egyptian authorities...اقرأ المزيد
The parents of Italian researcher Giulio Regini, killed in Cairo in February 2016, met with Italian investigators on Wednesday in Rome, who presented Regini’s parents a copy of investigations recently sent by the Egyptian authorities on the case. The...اقرأ المزيد
The share of Americans who identify as white and Christian has dropped below 50 percent, a transformation fueled by immigration and by growing numbers of people who reject organized religion altogether, according to a new survey released Wednesday. Christians...اقرأ المزيد
The European Union’s highest court ruled on Wednesday that EU states must take in a share of refugees who reach Europe, dismissing complaints by Slovakia and Hungary and reigniting an angry row between east and west. The government of Hungary’s nationalist...اقرأ المزيد
Minister of Oil and Mineral Wealth, Engineer Tarek al-Mula, said that the oil sector will provide numerous job opportunities through the establishment of an integrated complex for producing petrochemicals on 3 million m2 lands close to the Ain al-Sokhna...اقرأ المزيد
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has given a “green light” to security forces to routinely torture political detainees, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report published on Wednesday. The report alleges that the interior ministry has developed...اقرأ المزيد
The Egyptian Parliament is considering a discussion of a suggested draft bill by the National Council for Women that puts punitive sanctions, reaching one year imprisonment, for fathers, brothers and husbands who are proven guilty of physically or verbally...اقرأ المزيد
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s remarked during his meeting with President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi in China on Monday, his keenness to resume Russian flights to Egypt soon and reassured tourism workers in the Red Sea governorate. Red Sea workers expressed...اقرأ المزيد
