Egypt News
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El-Arish - Egyptian security officials say suspected Islamist militants attacked a police patrol along a pipeline in the Sinai Peninsula that transports natural gas to Jordan, wounding seven policemen. Intelligence officials say the routine police convoy of four vehicles came under fire on Friday near Egypt's border with Israel in central Sinai. The pipeline they were monitoring has come under
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Cairo — Political tension in Egypt in the aftermath of the revolution which began nearly two years ago, has hit tourism, led to high food prices, and caused an economic slowdown which is raising food security concerns. In 2012, Egypt was the world's largest wheat importer, shipping in 11.5 million tons, and highlighting the gap between official food sustainability goals
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The United Arab Emirates has rejected a request from Egypt for the release of 11 of its nationals detained for suspected links to Egypt's ruling Muslim Brotherhood, the Gulf News newspaper reported on Saturday. The case has sparked a sharp deterioration of relations between Abu Dhabi and Cairo, which had already been strained since the election of Brotherhood candidate Mohammed
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Egypt is going through a "big calamity" with a machine that promotes lies and the new Islam, founder of the Constitution Party and former secretary general of the Arab League Amr Moussa has said. Moussa said he rejected an offer from the former ruling military council to form the cabinet during the transitional phase, adding that the council did not
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A Cairo prosecution office has begun investigating a shooting on a number of Tahrir protesters that took place early on Monday leaving one dead and others injured. Unknown assailants in a vehicle fired random shots on the tents of protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square earlier today. Mohannad Samir was announced dead upon arrival to the hospital while forces have moved
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An official website belonging to the Egyptian Radio and Television Union said on Sunday that sources have said that former President Hosni Mubarak is dying at the Maadi hospital where he is being treated. Unnamed sources close to the toppled president have said that he is currently "battling death" at the army hospital where he was moved on Thursday, Akhbar
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Cairo - Egypt's president held out hope that a weakening pound could stabilise within days under a new regime implemented to fend off financial ruin and safeguard reserves needed to ensure food and fuel imports in a political crisis. Hit by political turmoil in the last month, the currency weakened to a record low on Sunday in a new dollar
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Prosecutor General Talaat Ibrahim approved on Thursday the Illicit Gains Authority's request to transfer the funds of Suzanne Mubarak, the former president's wife, from the National Bank of Egypt and NSGB to the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE). According to the Middle East News Agency (MENA), the authority had asked the prosecutor general to transfer the funds into a deposit
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Ousted president Hosni Mubarak has a build-up of fluid in his lungs and cracked ribs, Egypt’s official news agency MENA reported after he was transferred from prison to military hospital for treatment. The state prosecutor ordered Mubarak’s transfer on Thursday after his health deteriorated, a prosecution source had said, more than a week after he was briefly hospitalised after slipping
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Cairo - An Egyptian official says the country's top prosecutor has ordered an investigation into accusations against opposition leaders of incitement to overthrow the regime. The prosecution official said on Thursday a judge will investigate the report filed last month accusing Mohammed El-Baradei, Nobel Prize laureate and former head of the UN nuclear agency, along with Amr Moussa, former foreign
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Egypt's governorates are gearing up to vote Saturday 22/12/2012 in the second round of referendum on the draft constitution. In the governorates, preparations have been near complete for the referendum on the nation's new constitution. Egypt's military has assumed responsibility for protecting state institutions and maintaining security during the two stages of the constitutional referendum. The first stage of the
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Alexandria - Clashes between rival demonstrators erupted on Friday in Egypt's second city Alexandria, the eve of the final round of a referendum on a divisive new constitution drafted by an Islamist-dominated panel. Riot police, with orders to act "decisively," formed a barrier between several thousand Islamists and hundreds more opposition protesters and used tear gas to put down the
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X-rays showed ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is suffering from three broken ribs after a recent fall inside a Tora Prison Hospital bathroom, al-Arabiya website has stated. Mubarak was transferred on Wednesday to Maadi Military Hospital under heavy security measures for x-rays and was sent back to prison on the same day. "The medical report showed three broken ribs in
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Cairo - Egypt's top prosecutor retracted his resignation on Thursday, a decision that could cause a new uproar in the country after he was accused of pressuring a judge not to release protesters opposed to the Islamist president. The prosecutor Talaat Abdullah, who was appointed by President Mohammed Morsi, told reporters he resigned on Monday "under pressure" and amid "abnormal
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Cairo - Fresh opposition protests are to be held in Cairo on Tuesday over a draft constitution shaped by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's Islamist allies that looks on track to be adopted this weekend. Much of the judiciary is also stepping up its challenge to Morsi's authority and the proposed charter, which is being put to voters in a split
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Egypt’s opposition is calling for mass protests on Tuesday after Islamists backing President Mohamed Morsi claimed victory in the first round of a referendum it alleges was riddled with polling violations. The opposition coalition, the National Salvation Front, urged Egyptians to “take to the streets on Tuesday to defend their freedoms, prevent fraud and reject the draft constitution” ahead of
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Egypt’s ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak, who is serving a life sentence, was injured when he slipped in a prison shower on Saturday, the official MENA news agency reported. The former president, who was sentenced over the killings of protesters during the uprising that toppled him last year, was being treated for a head wound and bruising in the medical ward
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Cairo - Egyptians began voting on Saturday on a new constitution supported by the ruling Islamists but bitterly contested by a secular-leaning opposition. Polls opened in Cairo, Alexandria and eight other provinces in the first round and are scheduled to close at 19:00. The rest of the country votes on 22 December. President Mohamed Morsi cast his ballot in a
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A divided Egypt is being called to vote in a referendum Saturday on a new constitution that the secular opposition fears will be used by President Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood to usher in an Islamist interpretation of laws. Protests over the draft charter, and over near-absolute powers that Morsi gave himself for two weeks to push it through,
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Cairo — A decree issued by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi giving the military temporary authority to arrest civilians and protect "vital facilities of the state" took effect Monday, as a standoff continued over an upcoming referendum on a controversial draft constitution and more protests were called for Tuesday. Egypt's liberal opposition coalition has formally rejected the president's plan to hold
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Cairo - The Egyptian military has assumed responsibility for security and protecting state institutions in the country until the results of a 15 December constitutional referendum. The army took up the task on Monday in line with a decree a day earlier from President Mohammed Morsi. The presidential edict orders the military and police to jointly maintain security in the
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Ex-presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq said on Sunday that Egypt's president and the Muslim Brotherhood, of which he was a senior leader, must relinquish power immediately to end the ongoing crisis. The Mubarak-era Prime Minister, who lost to President Mohamed Mursi in June, told London's Asharq Al-Awsat that the entire regime needs to be replaced. He argued that the number of
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Cairo - Egypt's political crisis spiralled deeper into bitterness and recrimination Friday as thousands of Islamist backers of the president vowed vengeance at a funeral for men killed in bloody clashes earlier this week and large crowds of the president's opponents marched on his palace to increase pressure after he rejected their demands. The two camps in the country's divide
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Egypt's Military Corps of Engineers built a concrete wall on Friday morning at Heliopolis Club in front of the presidential palace in Cairo amid heavy deployment of the Republican Guard around the palace, the state news agency reported. Political and revolutionary powers had called for organizing protests and marches on Friday heading from different squares, including Tahrir Square, towards the
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Cairo - Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi met the army chief and cabinet ministers on Thursday to discuss how to stabilise the nation after clashes between his supporters and opponents outside the presidential palace, the presidency said in a statement. Morsi met General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who is the head of the military and defence minister, as well as the prime
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