Tag: Egypt
Saudi Arabia and Egypt set up $10 billion joint fund for...
CAIRO: Saudi Arabia and Egypt set up a $10 billion joint fund on Sunday to develop a planned mega-city, committing more than 1,000 square...
Egypt’s anti-IS operations: 4 soldiers,10 militants killed in Sinai
CAIRO: Egypt’s military said on Sunday four soldiers and 10 extremists were killed in a military operation in Sinai against Daesh.
The deaths raise military...
Legal challenges to transfer islands to Saudi Arabia dismissed by Egypt’s...
CAIRO: Egypt’s top court on Saturday dismissed all outstanding legal challenges to a deal transferring two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, a day...
World’s earliest tattoos discovered on Egyptian mummies
LONDON: Researchers have discovered the oldest figurative tattoos in the world on the upper arms of two ancient Egyptian mummies, the British Museum said.
A...
Egyptian star gets six-month jail sentence for insulting the river Nile
CAIRO: Sherine Abdel Wahab, popularly known as Sherine, has been sentenced to six months in jail by an Egyptian court for insinuating that drinking from...
Egypt sentences 21 to death for planning terror attacks
An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced 21 suspected extremists to death, including 16 in absentia, on charges of bomb making and planning attacks on...
Egypt forces detain ex-Islamist presidential candidate
CAIRO: Egyptian security forces detained former Islamist presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh for alleged contacts with the banned Muslim Brotherhood group, state news...
Egypt launches offensive against ‘terrorists’: spokesman
CAIRO: Egypt on Friday launched a major security operation involving the army and police against “terrorist and criminal elements and organisations” across the country,...
Scientists discover Egyptian dinosaur with European ties
PARIS: A long-necked dinosaur unearthed in Egypt has yielded the first evidence of contact between African and European dinosaurs shortly before the creatures disappeared...
Colossus of ancient Egyptian King Ramses shifted carefully to new home
CAIRO: Egypt moved an 83-tonne, 3,200-year-old statue of King Ramses II to the atrium of Cairo’s new Grand Egyptian Museum in a complex operation...
Sisi to run for second term in upcoming election
CAIRO: Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Friday he will run for a second term in office in an election in March, which...
Yousaf urges Muslim ummah to forge unity against Israeli atrocities
ISLAMABAD: Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony minister Sardar Muhammad Yousaf on Wednesday strongly rejected President Trump’s decision to move the US embassy from Tel...
Pak-Egypt MCC discusses regional stability, mutual interests
CAIRO/ISLAMABAD: The 11th round of Pakistan-Egypt Military Cooperation Committee (MCC) meeting held in Cairo, Egypt exchanged views on regional stability and held open and...
Egypt wants ‘Sudan out’ of contentious dam talks
CAIRO: Egypt has proposed excluding Sudan from contentious negotiations over the future of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), the largest hydroelectric dam project in Africa, according...
Pakistan condemns terrorist attack in Egypt
ISLAMABAD: The people and government of Pakistan condemn the heinous terrorist attack on a Coptic Church in Helwan in the South of Cairo on...
Ancient library housed in an Egyptian monastery reopens after renovation
An ancient library which holds thousands of centuries-old religious and historical manuscripts was recently opened in Egypt at the famed St Catherine Monastery, a...
New mummy, artefacts discovered from tombs in ancient Luxor
LUXOR: Egypt’s authorities revealed artefacts and a linen-wrapped mummified body, possibly that of a top official from two tombs that were discovered two decades...
