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Cairo announced a four-day opening of the Rafah border crossing point with the Gaza Strip beginning on Wednesday through Sunday with the exception of Friday. The decision is seen as a goodwill gesture ahead of the Islamic holy month of Read more
On Thursday, an Airbus A320 of EgyptAir flying from Paris to Cairo, with 66 people onboard, including 10 crewmembers, disappeared from the radar while in Egyptian airspace. The circumstances surrounding its disappearance are yet unknown because it didn’t send out Read more
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are raising concerns about the impossibility for them to go through the Israel-controlled areas out of Gaza because of the quasi-impossibility to obtain a “no objection” letter from Jordanian authorities. They need to have the Read more
President Mahmoud Abbas discussed with his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, in Cairo “ways of coordinating Arab efforts and the steps that need to be taken within the UN Security Council” to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during Egypt’s month-long rotating Read more
Egyptians were out on the streets on Monday for different reasons. Celebrations organized by the Future of Homeland Party celebrated the 34th anniversary of the handing over of the Sinai Peninsula by Israel in 1982 under the 1979 Camp David Read more
Arab League Chief said Thursday during an emergency meeting in Cairo over Israel’s position on the Golan Heights that a tribunal for the Palestinian cause should be set up to try Israel. Nabil al-Arabi told delegates that Israel was acting Read more
Egyptian police have fired tear gas at demonstrators who were protesting in Cairo against the President’s controversial deal under which two islands in the Red Sea, Tiran and sanafir, were handed over to Saudi Arabia. The Friday demonstrations were the Read more
Visiting King Salman announced Friday, on second day of his visit, the construction of a bridge to connect Egypt and Saudi Arabia, a project deemed historic by analysts. The Saudi monarch who arrived in Cairo on Thursday made the televised Read more
Italy on Friday recalled its ambassador to Egypt for consultations to seek “the truth” about the torture and slaying of an Italian graduate student in the North African country. Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni was recalling Ambassador Maurizio Massari for “an Read more
The Saudi monarch arrived in Cairo Thursday in his first visit to Egypt since ascending to the throne, a special visit said to announce several billion-dollar agreements to shore up and revive Egypt’s unraveled economy. King Salman’s visit has been Read more