The head of Hamas’ political bureau Ismail Haniyeh arrived in Cairo yesterday evening heading a delegation of the movement’s senior leaders to hold talks with Egyptian officials on recent developments in Palestine. The delegation’s talks with the Egyptian leadership are expected to cover the dangerous measures taken by the Israeli[…]
INTERNATIONAL What would have been the Egyptian capital’s first bike-sharing project is hitting the wall, raising multiple questions over possible reasons for its suspension. The failure of Cairo Bike comes more than eight years after President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi got on his bike in the city with hundreds of other[…]
Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s president for almost 30 years who stepped down after a popular revolution in 2011, has died. He was 91. Mubarak served as Egypt’s fourth president starting in 1981 until his ouster in what became known as the Arab Spring revolution. He was jailed for years after the[…]
Egyptian security forces clashed with hundreds of anti-government protesters in the seaport city of Suez on Saturday, firing tear gas and live rounds, said several residents who participated in the demonstrations. In a show of dissent, hundreds of Egyptians in Suez took to the streets for the second night in[…]
By Rukaya Mosavel A group of teenagers have achieved what many thought would be impossible – built their own aircraft and embarked on a trip from Cape to Cairo. After a strenuous month-long journey across the continent, the crew finally landed in Egypt on Monday. The four-seater Sling 4 plane[…]
At least 20 people have been killed and 50 injured after a train smashed into a barrier at Cairo’s main train station, state television and witnesses have said. Photographs on social media showed clouds of black smoke billowing from the building in central Cairo. Footage also showed fire engulfing the[…]
Egypt sentenced to death 75 people, including prominent Islamist leaders, on Saturday over a 2013 pro-Muslim Brotherhood sit-in which ended with the killing of hundreds of protesters by security forces. Others being tried in the case, including Brotherhood spiritual leader Mohamed Badie, were handed life sentences, judicial sources said. Those[…]
Egypt’s interior ministry says police have shot dead nine people suspected of belonging to a cell behind deadly attacks in the Sinai peninsula. The nine were killed in a shootout during a dawn raid on a farmhouse in the Nile Delta province of Sharqiya, the ministry said in a statement[…]
Ahmed Shafik, former Egyptian prime minister, says he is still considering running in next year’s presidential elections but that he will need to explore the option further. Appearing on Egypt’s Dream TV channel on Sunday evening, Shafik denied that Egyptian authorities had kidnapped him, as was claimed by his family[…]
Rival Palestinian factions agreed Wednesday to postpone the handover of control over Gaza from Hamas to Fatah, less than 48 hours before a deadline as part of an Egyptian-brokered reconciliation deal. The announcement came at the last minute as the landmark Palestinian unity deal faltered dangerously, with Fatah and Hamas[…]
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