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An Egyptian criminal court on Tuesday sentenced 43 activists to life in prison in connection with violence in 2011 following the removal of former President Read more
At least one person has been killed and dozens more injured in the Egyptian capital Cairo’s river Nile island during a police attempt to evict Read more
Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christians have been told by church leaders to cancel all events and activities outside churches in July because of a security threat, Read more
#EgyptTurmoil Terms of new IMF loan dictate that fuel subsidies have to be scrapped, meaning costs are increasing yet again As the microbus zooms around Read more
By Amina Ismail CAIRO (Reuters) – The nephew of assassinated Egyptian president Anwar al-Sadat says the current leadership has stifled freedom of expression so tightly the Read more
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s top constitutional court has ruled to halt all verdicts on an islands transfer deal until it makes a decision on the Read more
Egypt attracted $8.4 billion of foreign investment in domestic debt instruments since the flotation of the pound in November up the end of May, Deputy Read more
Personnel assigned to the U.S. Mission in Egypt are prohibited from visiting religious sites outside greater Cairo until further notice, the U.S. embassy said on Read more
Egypt is looking to ramp up petroleum production over the next two years, aiming to reduce fuel imports to about 10 percent of total consumption Read more
So-called Islamic State (IS) has claimed it was behind an attack on a bus carrying Coptic Christians in Egypt that killed at least 29 people Read more
Egypt launched a fresh round of air strikes over Libya on Saturday, Egyptian military sources and an eyewitness told Reuters, targeting militant camps it said Read more
Egyptian forces have struck “terrorist training camps” in retaliation for an attack on Coptic Christians, President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has said. State media say six Read more
Gunmen attacked buses and a truck taking a group of Coptic Christians to a monastery in southern Egypt on Friday, killing 26 people and wounding Read more
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir accused Egypt on Tuesday of supporting rebels at war with Khartoum, a week ahead of a visit to Cairo by Sudan’s Read more
A prominent Egyptian opposition leader was ordered detained on Tuesday for “offending public decency” amid what rights lawyers say is a wave of arrests of Read more
Egyptian authorities have referred 48 people to military trial for their alleged involvement in three deadly church bombings. Islamic State had claimed responsibility or the Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he hoped to visit Cairo soon, praising President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi after a meeting in Saudi Arabia and Read more
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 17 mummies in desert catacombs in Minya province, the antiquities ministry announced Saturday. The mummies, yet to be dated, were Read more
Pope Francis warned against religious fanaticism on Saturday, wrapping up a brief trip to Cairo where he urged Muslim leaders to unite against violence by Read more
Egyptian Foreign minister Samih Shoukri Thursday started talks with the Sudanese officials in Khartoum amid a simmering diplomatic row between the two countries. Mr Shokri Read more
Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed the tomb of a nobleman from more than 3,000 years ago, the latest in a series of major discoveries of ancient Read more
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt – Members of Egypt’s Christian minority flocked to church on Friday but two church bomb attacks on Palm Sunday that killed 45 people have Read more
Egyptian security forces killed seven suspected Islamic State militants in a shootout on Monday as they were meeting to plan attacks on minority Christians, the Read more
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis, who is due to visit Egypt this month, on Sunday condemned the blast that killed at least 21 people and Read more
Islamic State was responsible for two church bombings in Egypt on Sunday that killed at least 36 and injured over 100, the group’s news agency Read more
At least 36 people were killed and more than 100 injured in bomb attacks on two Coptic churches on Palm Sunday, in Egypt. The attacks Read more
By Ahmed Tolba and Mohamed Abdellah | CAIRO At least 21 people were killed and 50 injured on Sunday when an explosion rocked a Coptic Read more
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump moved to reset U.S. relations with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday after the prior Obama administration’s strained ties, Read more
CAIRO – Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president overthrown in 2011 and the first leader to face trial after the Arab Spring uprisings that swept the region, Read more
CAIRO – The World Bank has disbursed another $1 billion in financial assistance to Egypt out of its $3 billion loan programme with the country, the Read more
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