The Latest Breaking News from Egypt

Egypt’s Interior Ministry, in collaboration with Interpol, is hosting Monday a workshop on confronting emerging terrorist organizations and phenomena in the Middle East and Africa. The workshop is hosted by the Egyptian Police Academy until May 25. The participating countries include Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia,…

Egypt's Supply Minister Ali Moselhy asserted that food security is a top priority, noting that the reserves of strategic commodities can last for six months. During his inauguration of “Egypt’s Future” project for agricultural production, Moselhy said that Egypt has silos that can store up to 3.4 million tons of…

Risk-taking director Tarik Saleh and the stars of his film competing at Cannes, Fares Fares and Tawfeek Barhom, speak to Eve Jackson about their potentially explosive political spy thriller "Boy From Heaven". The Swedish-Egyptian filmmaker delves into the underbelly of modern Egypt and the Arab world at large. It’s a…

An alien rock found in the Egyptian desert in 1996 is baffling scientists who are trying to discover how it was formed and where in space it came from before reaching Earth

Egypt expects the Suez Canal's revenues to reach about $7 billion by the end of the current fiscal year, finance minister Mohamed Maait said on Saturday. Tourism revenues are expected to reach between $10 billion and $12 billion by then, despite the Ukrainian crisis, he added. Egypt's fiscal year runs…

Grace Mclean, from Roundhay in Leeds, got her revenge with a video of her chucking his clothes in the hotel pool going viral

Egypt’s religious and secular institutions both breed mistrust in Tarik Saleh’s superbly realised paranoid nightmare

Egypt’s Grand Mufti Shawki Allam visited the United Kingdom earlier this week and delivered a speech at the House of Commons, highlighting the banned Muslim Brotherhood’s extremist approach. Allam also distributed a documented English-language report to the lawmakers revealing the Brotherhood’s scandals and abuses and its association with violence. Following…

Egypt is keen on resolving the dispute with Ethiopia over the giant hydropower dam on the Blue Nile and reach an agreement that preserves the interests of all concerned countries. It underscored the importance of the Nile River as a "source of cooperation and construction" since it is considered an…

Egyptian security forces thwarted a terrorist suicide attack in North Sinai, the Interior Ministry announced in a statement on Thursday. "A terrorist planned to carry out a suicide attack against security forces at a police checkpoint in Al-Teloul district,” it added. A shootout ensued and the attacker was killed. The…

The couple were on a holiday in Egypt when the woman uncovered that her boyfriend had cheated on her