Egypt arrested Islamist militants over bombs blasts
CAIRO: Egyptian police arrested Wednesday four members of an Islamist militant group over bomb blasts near a presidential palace, although another group claimed it...
Egypt’s richest man, Nassef Sawiris, sentenced to 3 years in jail...
Egypt's wealthiest man, Nassef Sawiris, has been sentenced in absentia to three years in prison and fines worth LE50 million on charges of refraining...
UN experts urge Egypt to overturn largest confirmed mass death verdict
The credibility and integrity of the Egyptian justice system has become “deeply compromised”, a group of United Nations human rights experts today said, urging...
Two Egyptian policemen killed trying to defusing bombs
Two Egyptian policemen have been killed trying to defuse bombs that exploded near the presidential palace in Cairo, interior ministry officials say.
The first blast...
Anti-protest law activists’ trial postponed to 13 September 2014
A Cairo misdemeanour has postponed the trial of 23 defendants charged with violating the protest law to 13 September, Al-Ahram's Arabic news website reported...
Two Israelis and one Egyptian to face trial over ‘spying’
An Egyptian and two Israelis, including an intelligence officer, will be tried by an Egyptian court for allegedly "spying" for the Jewish state, judicial...
Four soldiers killed in bus attack in North Sinai, Egypt
CAIRO - Unidentified assailants shot four soldiers dead on Saturday night in North Sinai's Rafah, security sources at the army said.
The attackers stopped a...
Egypt’s Sisi and Sudan’s Bashir meet amidst controversy
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took a brief stopover in Sudan on Friday on his way back from Equatorial Guinea where he was attending...
Cairo court tries men in mob sexual assault cases
CAIRO, June 25 (Reuters) - The trial began on Wednesday of 13 Egyptian men accused of taking part in mob sexual assaults on women...
Egypt foreign ministry rejects foreign condemnation of Al Jazeera verdicts
Egypt's foreign ministry has expressed its objection to foreign criticism of Egypt's judiciary and its rulings, following a verdict on Monday that sent three...
