The renewed three-month state of emergency will start on July 10. It comes after twin church bombings in April claimed 45 lives. Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi extended a state of emergency declared after twin church [ More … ]
The Sudanese government on Wednesday denied media reports that the decision to ban the Egyptian agricultural products has been reversed. The semi-official Sudan Media Center (SMC) has quoted the state minister of commerce Al-Sadiq Mohamed [ More … ]
Egypt is currently battling several armed groups concentrated mainly in the Sinai Peninsula Egypt’s air force struck a unit of ‘Sinai Province’ , killing 12 members of the Islamic State (IS) affiliated group and destroying four [ More … ]
Israeli authorities implemented a third round of electricity supply cuts to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday — honoring a request from the Palestinian Authority (PA) that announced last month it would drastically reduce its payments [ More … ]
A 17-year-old American-Muslim girl with Egyptian origins was murdered on Monday after being beaten, and kidnapped in front of a mosque in Virginia. An Egyptian foreign ministry statement said Tuesday that the Egyptian embassy in [ More … ]
The Abraaj Capital Limited (ACLD) – a member of The UAE Abraaj Group that is authorised and regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) – has been gradually expanding its influence on health institutions [ More … ]
A Cairo criminal court on Saturday recommended the death penalty for 30 people convicted of involvement in the 2015 assassination of Egypt’s top prosecutor, the most senior state official killed by militants in recent years. [ More … ]
Egypt’s Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has called on allies in the Gulf to escalate the diplomatic row with Qatar to include Turkey. According to the news outlet, Al-Sisi urged Gulf leaders to expand their boycott until Ankara [ More … ]
Egypt’s pro-Sisi dominated parliament approved Egyptian-Saudi maritime demarcation agreement on Wednesday in a general session, which means transferring the sovereignty of the Tiran and Sanafir islands to Saudi Arabia. The general session was held after [ More … ]
Egypt looks set to go ahead with the controversial handover of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, after a parliamentary committee agreed to the transfer. Egypt’s parliamentary committee gave the green light for the [ More … ]
The Gaza Ministry of Interior and Internal Security recommended in a statement on Tuesday evening a series of new and additional procedures “to enhance the state of security at the southern borders with Egypt.” The [ More … ]
Two Red Sea islands will be transferred from Egypt to Saudi Arabia control this week, with Israel approving of the deal. Israel says it backs the controversial handover of two Red Sea islands from Egyptian [ More … ]
The Egyptian Parliament continues for the second day its discussions over the destiny of the Egyptian-Saudi maritime demarcation in order to hear additional comments and views of experts. The parliament dismissed reviewing previous court verdicts [ More … ]
Egyptian rights lawyer Khaled Ali has called Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi a “traitor” over his government’s decision to hand over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. A leading Egyptian rights lawyer widely expected to run [ More … ]
A secret meeting was held last year in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, between Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, reported Monday that Israeli opposition leader Yitzhak Herzog [ More … ]
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