Egypt News Archives

CAIRO, Egypt : Al-Qaida has posted a statement on the Internet saying one of its commanders in Afghanistan has been killed by a U.S. airstrike.

CAIRO, Egypt - The 22-nation Arab League has named a new envoy to Iraq. Hani Khalaf, a retired Egyptian diplomat, will be the League's next envoy, replacing Moroccan Moukhtar Lamani, who resigned last year to ...

President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt yesterday paid a rare visit to Uganda, the first of any Egyptian leader and discussed the pending indictment of Sudanese President Omar-el-Bashir by the International Criminal ...

Egypt's Largest Camel Market, the Birqash Camel Market is 35 km away from Cairo.

Egypt and South Africa Tuesday expressed their support for a 12-month delay of efforts to indict Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir for war crimes at the International Criminal Court .

Egyptian security forces are again on alert, fearing another spread of sectarian strife between Copts and Muslims.

President Thabo Mbeki is hosting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak this week during an historic first state visit to South Africa, aimed at cementing ties between the two countries.

CAIRO, Egypt : Amnesty International is urging Egyptian authorities to release a group of young government critics arrested during a protest in the coastal city of Alexandria.

An Egyptian court on Sunday acquitted the owner of a ferry that sank two years ago in the Red Sea, killing more than 1,000 people.

The ship's owner and his son were cleared of negligence and corruption charges by a court in the Red Sea port city of Hurghada, court officials said. They were tried in absentia, and are believed to be hiding somewhere in Europe.

The ferry sank in Feb. 2006 after a fire broke out in its vehicle bay while traveling from Saudi Arabia to Egypt. Most of the victims were Egyptian workers returning home.

Youssef Chahine, one of Egypt's most lauded movie directors whose films over nearly five decades often went on Fellini-esque flights of fancy and tackled social ills and Islamic fundamentalism, died Sunday in ...

CAIRO, Egypt - Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the craft, ...

Police have arrested 26 Internet activists in the port of Alexandria, and 14 of them were jailed for more than two weeks for threatening national security, a security official said on Thursday.

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan says in a statement that government censors banned the book "Inside Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution" by John Bradley.

IN UPPER EGYPT along the Nile, hundreds of miles south of Cairo, the growing population is scrambling over the scarce resources of land and water.

Damac Properties, the luxury lifestyle provider and Middle East's largest private sector master developer, announced that it currently has five projects under development in Egypt.

The screen shows the boat which lies 10 metres below the surface. The 4,500-year-old vessel is the sister ship of a similar boat removed in pieces from another pit in 1954 and painstakingly reconstructed.

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt : Take it with a grain of salt, or many grains of sand, if you want, when the young volunteers say that every one of the 60 or 70 people helping to put on Wikipedia's annual convention here is ...

Controversy continues to rise over the fate of a Canadian fertiliser plant currently under construction in Egypt's coastal province Damietta.

When leaders from the Group of Eight nations agreed last week to cut carbon emissions in half by 2050, all the commentary debated their failure to set shorter-term goals.

Among the unlikelier announcements made at Wikipedia's conference in Alexandria, Egypt, was the bold claim on Friday that the online encyclopedia was about to make history in print publishing: creating the book ...

The screen shows the boat which lies 10 metres below the surface and is believed to have been built to take King Cheops to the heavens after his death nearly 5000 years ago.

He appears briefly on TV, not saying much, if anything at all, and then fades into the secrecy and quiet diplomacy that men like him prefer.

The Band's Visit tells the story of an eight-man Egyptian police brass band that gets lost in Israel and ends up in a desert town, where amused locals take the musicians into their own homes.

A train plowed into three vehicles in a northern Egyptian town on Wednesday, killing at least 40 people and injuring 50, a police official said.

Attacks this summer on monks and shopkeepers belonging to Egypt's Coptic Christian minority, and scattered clashes between Muslims and Christians, have compelled many of Egypt's estimated 6 to 8 million Copts ...

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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Police detained 17 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood on Sunday in northern Egypt where the Islamist group was fielding candidates for four vacant parliamentary seats, security officials said.

The Brotherhood, the strongest opposition group in the Arab country despite the ban, said police forces were blocking its campaign staff and supporters from voting in the coastal city of Alexandria and the Nile Delta province of Kafr el-Sheikh. Brotherhood candidates are running as independents.

Scientists find ancient royal burial ground in Egypt Courtesy of the Nigerian Guardian ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered ancient wooden coffins in what appears to be a royal burial ground near the necropolis of ...

Mahjoub Fadul Badry told the Arabiyah news channel that if the International Criminal Court sought to indict Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, it would be a violation of the country's sovereignty and would ...

Divide your time between hectic Cairo - a base for exploring the pyramids - and a cruise through the southern region of Nubia, rich with temples and monuments dating back to 3,100 B.C. Friday, July 11, 2008 The ...

OPEC member Libya is planning an oil refinery and a natural gas pipeline in Egypt, helping to raise Libyan investment in its Arab neighbour to $10 billion over the next two years, the Libyan prime minister ...

CAIRO, Egypt - Egypt's state-owned news agency is reporting that smugglers killed a police officer during a shootout on the border with Israel.

A deadly clash between two families in an Egyptian Delta governorate over land disputes killed at least nine and injured six others on Thursday.

Starkdale Presbyterian Church is inviting Jefferson County residents to a special worship service to be led by the Rev.

Cairo, July 6: A 5,000-year-old royal burial ground has been discovered by an Egyptian archaeological mission in southern Egypt, the official MENA news agency has reported.

By Alaa Shahine Reuters Saturday, July 5, 2008; 8:12 PM CAIRO - The video shows a poorly lit hospital nursery filled with premature babies in incubators.

Cairo, July 3: India and Egypt have expressed concern over skyrocketing fuel and food prices in the course of External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's three-day visit to Egypt which concluded Thursday.

The United Nations refugee agency has interviewed nearly 180 Eritrean and Ethiopian asylum-seekers detained in Egypt to assess their claims for refugee status, and urged the authorities to continue to provide ...

The four-wheel-drives outside the terracotta villas include a Lexus and a Porsche , and under the shade of the palms and the bright red poinciana trees men in liveried overalls are buffing them to a shine.

Red and white banners along Nile bridges and Cairo streets this month were Egypt's latest effort to curb an increasingly pressing problem: a population growing faster than the economy can support.

Sharm El Sheikh, July 2 : Visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee today called on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and discussed the possibility of enhancing existing bilateral ties between ...

A University of Chicago expedition at Tell Edfu in southern Egypt has unearthed a large administration building and silos that provide fresh clues about the emergence of urban life.

Kenya on Sunday offered to help the warring political factions in Zimbabwe reach a negotiated settlement that would provide a power sharing deal between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan ...