Egyptian and Qatari intelligence officials met in Cairo to discuss a possible reconciliation as part of Saudi efforts to broker an end to the 18-month standoff over Doha's support of the Muslim Brotherhood, security sources said.
We are sceptical but we are going to see; if they keep their word then well and good; we will remain cautious however,” said a senior Egyptian diplomat in remarks shared with Ahram Online on the Egyptian-Qatari rapprochement.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a decree that approves raising the military pension by 15 percent, presidential spokesperson Alaa Youssef said in a statement Tuesday.
The pipeline that carries natural gas to Jordan through Egypt’s North Sinai was struck by an explosion Tuesday for the 27th month since the January 25 Revolution that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak, Youm7 reported.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will sign Tuesday a strategic partnership agreement with China in addition to a number of memorandums of understanding (MoU) in economic, transportation, education, and environment fields for the period from 2015 to 2017 , according to the official state news agency, MENA.
Samia Al-Gendy, the mother of Mohamed Al-Gendy, who died in February 2013 from wounds he received after being arresting during marches commemorating the January 25 Revolution, announced to Al-Shorouq Sunday she intends to run in the coming parliamentary elections.
Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr, a Doha-based broadcaster owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network, has ceased broadcasting today based on the Egyptian-Qatari reconciliation
The Tagamu Party, Ghad Party and Conference Party withdrew from the Egyptian Front, an alliance of political parties that will run in the 2014 parliamentary elections, after they failed to agree on candidate lists.
The Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (CRCICA) has ordered political satirist Bassem Youssef and his producing company to pay compensation worth of 100 million Egyptian pounds for the satellite network which cancelled his show last year.
On the same day he left to China for political and economic talks, Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ratified an anticipated electoral constituencies law, the final prerequisite for holding parliamentary elections, which would conclude the country's transitional roadmap.
A top Egyptian police official has denied a Friday report in the U.K.’s The Times newspaper accusing Egypt of detaining more than 600 children in a subterranean prison at a police base north of Cairo.
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi affirmed to US President Barack Obama Egypt's commitment to democracy, human rights and to the roadmap unveiled after the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, in a phone call on Thursday.
A court in Port Said has sentenced a Suez Canal official to ten years in jail and two Mossad officers to life in prison on charges of spying for Israel, a judicial source said late on Saturday.
Egypt's intelligence chief Gen. Mohammed Farid el-Tohamy was removed from his post on Sunday, official news agency MENA reported.
A leading labor activist entered on Sunday his second day on hunger strike in protest over his superiors’ crackdown on striking colleagues at the Egyptian Iron and Steel Company, according to the Center for Trade Unions and Workers Services.
Former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq has won the presidency for the Egyptian National Movement Party.
The Interior Ministry announced Thursday eligibility requirements for the recently-designated job of security assistant, initially referred to by media as "community police."
Egypt on Thursday cleared a final hurdle to long-awaited parliamentary elections seen as decisive in cementing the rule of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who ousted President Mohamed Mursi, and excluding the banned Muslim Brotherhood from politics.
The death toll of the Red Sea sunken boat has risen to 20, and the number of injured has reached 18, Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, Health Ministry Spokesman said on Thursday.
Two Egyptian military officers and two from the United Arab Emirates were killed on Wednesday when their plane crashed during a joint exercise in Egypt, official reports said.
An Egyptian woman died on Wednesday of bird flu bringing the number of deaths of bird flu tonine cases since the beginning of the year, Al-Masry Al-Youm reports.
Others
An Arabic language teacher from the Qabaa school in the Nozha district flogged a Coptic pupil ten years old named Bibawi Faragallah 40 times with an electric wire last week.