Husband of TV presenter Shimaa Gamal detained at his hiding place in the Suez governorate, according to the interior ministry – amid reports that he was deported from Dubai. Egyptian security forces on Thursday night [ More … ]
An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced ten people to death and long jail sentences of up to life imprisonment against 153 others , a judicial source said. On its part, Amnesty International has condemned the [ More … ]
The National Dialogue Administration revealed the 19-member board of trustees for the national dialogue, which was supposed to begin during the first week of July but now looks set to be delayed. On 8 June, [ More … ]
U.S. President Joe Biden may meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the NATO summit this week to discuss Turkiye’s concerns about bids by Sweden and Finland to join the alliance, U.S. national security adviser Jake [ More … ]
Qatar is most likely to host the upcoming talks between Iran and the US, mediated by the European Union, to close the remaining gaps in efforts to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal. This comes amid [ More … ]
A Cairo court has upheld prosecutors’ decision to close the investigation into economic researcher Ayman Hadhoud’s suspicious death in a psychiatric hospital The Egyptian court on Thursday upheld prosecutors’ decision to close the investigation into [ More … ]
Over twenty human rights organizations have called for the immediate and unconditional release of lawyer and rights activist Mohamed El-Baqer These rights groups, includig Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), Egyptian Commission for Rights [ More … ]
DAWN has stated that the detention of Anas El-Beltagy after four acquittals shows abuse of power and collective punishment of the Beltagy Family The Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) rights group has called [ More … ]
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Wednesday arrived in the capital, Ankara, on an official visit to the Republic of Turkiye. The Saudi crown prince’s Wednesday visit to Turkiye comes for the first time [ More … ]
Egypt’s coastguard is set to receive €80 million ($84.2 million) from the EU to prevent boats carrying asylum seekers from leaving its shores for Europe. A paper drafted by the EU Commission last week says [ More … ]
The Israeli government has reportedly approved ‘a special program to strengthen economic relations with Egypt’, reported INSS. Citing Ofir Winter, a researcher, the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) reported that the Israeli government last [ More … ]
Aisha El-Shater, 41, daughter of Muslim Brotherhood senior leader Khairat El-Shater, and her husband lawyer Mohamed Abo Horeira are on trial by the Emergency State Security Court on bogus charges These bogus and trumped up [ More … ]
Amid a world food crisis, largely affecting Egypt, Sisi has called for an international solution to the global grain crisis, while addressing the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on Friday said, [ More … ]
As the European Union is supporting the Egyptian government financially to face the country’s economic hardships, it should also back the Egyptian people in the face of the regime’s abuses. Last Wednesday, Ursula von der [ More … ]
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announced yesterday that the EU has allocated 100 million euros (about 104 million U.S. dollars) in “an immediate relief” to Egypt’s food crisis. In a joint [ More … ]
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