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President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi Wednesday allowed the army to use ‘brute force’ to squash militancy in the Sinai following the killing of 305 people in the restive province last Friday in an attack authorities blame on the Islamic State group Read more
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry Tuesday vigorously chided Israel, rejecting comments by Israeli minister of Social Equity who called for the establishment of the Palestinian state in the Sinai instead of boundaries set by the Oslo accords. Head of the department, Read more
Iran and Turkey Sunday bolstered commercial ties with Qatar, isolated by its regional neighbors over alleged support for terrorism, under an agreement signed Sunday. The agreement underlines greater cooperation between the three coungtries, announced the Iranian state television. According to Read more
A Cairo court Sunday ordered the release of 17 people, part of as many as 57 individuals, arrested last month and accused of homosexuality and incitement to debauchery, judicial sources revealed. The men faced paying a fine of $285 or Read more
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has committed €15 million to Mediterrania Capital III Funds to boost small businesses in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. This funding is part of the first close of Mediterrania Capital III LP (MC Read more
The Kuwaiti Wataniya Airways, which resumed operations in July, signed Tuesday through its aircraft supplier Golden Falcon Aviation, an agreement for the acquisition of 25 Airbus A320neos. Under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed at Dubai Air Show, the 25 Read more
Qatar has accused the UAE of plotting to devalue its currency in the outset of the GCC-Qatar rift, a government source said. An investigation was opened to probe the allegations of UAE plots against Qatar’s currency since Doha alerted to Read more
An Egyptian cassation court Wednesday lowered the prison sentence against activist Alaa Abdel Fattah to five years and dropped an accompanying term of hard labor. The defendant had been previously sentenced to 15 years in prison for challenging a protest Read more
The Egyptian government on Sunday summoned several Western ambassadors to protest a statement criticizing the country’s detention of a human rights lawyer. Ibrahim Metwally Hegazy, an expert on forced disappearances, who is working on the murder of Italian student Giulio Read more
A British woman, Laura Plummer, 33, has been imprisoned in Egypt after flying into the country carrying 290 Tramadol tablets and some naproxen for her husband’s sore back. Media reports say that after finding the painkillers in her suitcase at Read more