Egypt News

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 police on Thursday arrested the son of former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi on charges linked to a protest against his father’s ouster that resulted in hundreds of deaths, officials said. Osama Morsi’s lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maksoud said police arrested him at his home in the Nile Delta city …

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 …

Egypt is raising tariffs on some imported goods to up to 60 percent following a decree by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the finance ministry said Sunday. The ministry said the measure was introduced to “reduce imports”, which have seen Egypt‘s trade deficit soar to more than $49 billion (46 billion euros). Sisi’s …

Egypt’s top court has struck down part of a law that allowed the interior ministry to ban all but officially sanctioned protests, a court official said Saturday. The 2013 law, which has been used to jail activists for up to two years, required demonstrators to inform the interior ministry that …

Representatives of around 40 countries on Saturday approved plans to establish a fund to protect heritage sites in war zones and a network of safe havens for endangered artworks. A closing statement issued after two days of talks in Abu Dhabi did not specify the total amount pledged for the …

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 …

by Haitham EL-TABEI Eight Egyptian soldiers were killed in a car bomb attack targeting a checkpoint in Sinai, where the local affiliate of the Islamic State group is leading an insurgency, the army said Thursday. “A group of armed terrorists attacked one of the security checkpoints in north Sinai,” the …