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A bombing killed six policemen at a checkpoint in Cairo on Friday, the latest in a string of attacks in Egypt’s capital targeting security forces and officials, the interior ministry said. The attack struck in the western Talibiya neighbourhood of the capital, shortly before the weekly Muslim prayers and when Cairo’s …

Egypt has an ambitious three-year reform plan that, with foreign help, can revive its struggling economy, the minister of international cooperation told AFP. In an interview, Sahar Nasr said the “three-year strategy” will lead to a return of investments, boost industrial production and create jobs. It comes as Egypt faces not only falling …

Egyptian authorities announced Tuesday the arrest of 25 members of an international network allegedly trafficking in human organs, including university professors and doctors. “Today at dawn, the largest international network for trading human organs has been captured,” the country’s Administrative Control Authority said in a statement on its website. The network …

Five Palestinians have been killed in incidents in tunnels in the Gaza Strip, according to local authorities in the city of Rafah near Egypt’s border. Four were found dead after the flooding of a passage linking the enclave to Egypt, say the officials. Egypt had not confirmed the information, though it has destroyed …

A top UN envoy on Wednesday pleaded with the Security Council to help break the siege of Aleppo, warning that residents of the Syrian city were at risk of extermination. “For the sake of humanity we call on — we plead — with the parties and those with influence to …

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Thursday pardoned 82 “youths” including a prominent advocate of Islamic reform, following calls to free prisoners swept up in a crackdown, his spokesman said. Sisi had promised to look into pardoning prisoners at a youths’ conference last month. The pardoned include Islam al-Behairy, a …

An Egyptian appeals court on Tuesday November 15th overturned a death sentence handed down against ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in one of four trials since his 2013 overthrow. The decision is a first victory for the 65-year-old who has been convicted and sentenced in all cases against him since …

Libya’s armed groups must be involved in new peace talks towards ending political division and conflict in the oil-rich country, International Crisis Group said Friday. “Little progress will be made without involving the most important armed actors in dialogue,” ICG said in a report. “The reset of the mired peace …

by Layal Abou Rahal Lebanese lawmakers ended a two-year political vacuum Monday by electing as president ex-army chief Michel Aoun, who promised to protect the country from spillover from the war in neighbouring Syria. The deeply divided parliament took four rounds of voting to elect 81-year-old Aoun, whose supporters flooded …

A roadside bombing in the Egyptian capital targeting policemen killed a civilian on Friday, the interior ministry said. The bomb planted on the side of a road exploded as a police convoy was passing through the Ain Shams district in east Cairo, the ministry said in a statement. It wounded …