French ship detects signal from deep under Mediterranean, likely to be coming from the black box of crashed EgyptAir jet

French ship detects signal from deep under Mediterranean, likely to be coming from the black box of crashed EgyptAir jet

During the United Nations Environmental Assembly, the Egyptian Minister for Environment called fellow members "dogs and slaves.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announced on Tuesday the appointment of a new ambassador to Cairo to replace Maurizio Massari.

Egypt's Journalists Syndicate cannot be broken and whoever bets on this will lose in the end, the chairman of the syndicate Yehia Kalash said on Monday, following a decision by prosecution to refer him and two other board members to court.

Health Minister Ahmed Emad pledged Tuesday to reverse his recent decision to raise the price of pharmaceutical drugs if he cannot make up the shortage in supply within three months.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will meet on Tuesday with the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, (EBRD) Suma Chakrabarti, at the presidential palace in Heliopolis, news outlet Youm 7 reported.

Advisor to the Health Minister Ahmed Aziz was ordered detained pending investigations Tuesday for accepting a 4.5 million EGP ($506,710,) bribe from the Egyptian agent of a European medical equipment company, Youm7 reported.

Egypt’s non-petroleum exports have increased by 8.85 percent to register $1.7 billion in April 2016, compared to $1.6 billion during the same period last year, Trade and Industry Minister Tarek Kabil was quoted by Al Ahram Monday.

Egypt's prosecution granted on Monday an LE10,000 bail for the Journalists Syndicate Head Yehia Qalash after being called in for questioning on an incident that started this month when police stormed the syndicate and arrested two journalists. Qalash refused to pay bail.

The German foreign minister has announced that German think-tank Friedrich Naumann will likely return its Middle East operations office to Cairo, reversing its former move to Jordan due to alleged restrictions imposed by the Egyptian government.

Four months into the new Egyptian parliament, at least 35 percent of Egyptians are satisfied with the legistlative body's performance, according to a poll conducted by the Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research (Baseera).

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has showed his solace and respect to a Coptic elderly woman, who was stripped naked by a group of Muslims in Upper Egypt’s Minya last week.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has officially opened two new areas of purpose-built housing in the Moqattam area of Cairo that aim to replace several areas of sub-standard and dangerous housing in Cairo, including Duwaiqa, Establ Antar and Ezbet Khairallah.

Egypt's manpower minister said on Sunday that he received confirmation that a Kuwaiti citizen who was videoed assaulting an Egyptian national has been arrested.

The body of a young girl has been referred to the Forensic Medicine department after she died in a circumcision operation at a private hospital in Suez, Youm7 reported Sunday.

The Egyptian State’s Commissioner Authority on Sunday has set May 31 to review lawsuits demanding the annulment of Egypt government’s decision to acknowledge Saudi Arabian sovereignty over the Red Sea islands of Tiran and Sanafir, Al Ahram reported.

Four police personnel were released on bail Saturday while three others were detained pending investigations over “beating an elderly man to death” at a police station in Cairo Wednesday, Youm7 reported.

An Egyptian court sentenced Mubarak-era parliament speaker Safwat al-Sherif and his son to five years in prison for illicit profiteering and abusing power to make fortunes on Saturday.

The current head of the Supreme Constitutional Court and the country's former interim president, Adly Mansour, will step down from his post on 30 June

Egypt's president Sisi approved a $25 bln loan from Russia to build a nuclear power plant in Dabaa, according to the state's official newspaper published on Thursday.