Egypt was listed as one of the deadliest countries for journalists in 2014, as media watchdogs highlighted the country’s numerous violations against journalists in annual reports published on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Azbakiya Prosecution referred to the misdemeanour court on Wednesday 26 men arrested last week over holding a "gay bath house orgy".
Khaled Dawoud, spokesperson of the Dostour Party, criticized the presidency for ignoring the suggestions presented by the political parties to change the protest law, Al-Masry Al-Youm reports.
Egypt's cabinet is expected to endorse the final draft of a new electoral constituencies law in a meeting on Wednesday, thus opening the country's long-awaited polls to be held as soon as possible.
A 13-meter (42 feet) high statue of the 18th dynasty Pharaoh Amenhotep III, which was broken into pieces after an earthquake in 1200 B.C., was restored and re-erected at the northern entrance of the Pharaoh’s funerary temple on the west bank of Luxor, Youm7 reported Monday.
Manpower Minister Nahed Ashry said independent trade unions have become the largest problem facing the labor market as they were established illegally and call for categorial strikes and sit-ins that hinder work progress leading to deterioration of Egyptian economy.
The Bread and Freedom Party condemned a newly-issued law to privatize university hospitals, and to establish a Higher Council to dictate the price of services.
Egypt's government and private sector representatives announced on Tuesday the creation of a start-up incubator to promote economic growth and create jobs.
Two Egyptian nationals have been killed in Libya on Monday, during clashes between rival factions present in the country.
Six people have been killed and over a dozen wounded in two separate road crashes outside Cairo, state news agency MENA reported.
Egypt’s minister of social solidarity doubled on Monday the sum of financial compensation for those who died in the sinking of a boat in the Red Sea on Sunday.
An Egyptian prosecutor has referred 40 alleged supporters of the bannedMuslim Brotherhood, including nine women, to a military court on charges related to their role in protests, judicial sources said, as the state continues to crack down on opponents.
The Supreme Administrative Court upheld on Monday a decision to ban interior ministry personnel from entering university campuses for security purposes.
At least 13 Egyptian fishermen died early Sunday after their boat sank in the Red Sea following a collision with a container ship, state media said.
Egypt's military has said it destroyed the house of a "terrorist" in Sinai along with explosive materials stored inside, as the army's crackdown on militants in the restive peninsula continues.
Kafr El-Dawar General Hospital's director and seven doctors from the same facility has been referred to court on over accusations that a patient in labour was not admitted to the state-owned hospital, thus forcing her to give birth in the street.
Two explosive devices detoned late Friday in Fayoum, south of the Nile Delta, near the local traffic department, causing damage to parked cars and slightly injuring a police cadet.
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has announced plans to double investments in scientific research sector as pursuant to the constitution, Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab said.
Americans support the regime in Egypt, the Egyptian Constitution and believe in the need to achieve stability, said Former Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Moussa.
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi left Jordan on Thursday evening after meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II.
The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced political activist Ahmed Douma to three years hard labour for being in contempt of the court, during a session of his ongoing trial relating to the “cabinet clashes” in 2011.
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.