EGYPT INDEPENDENT

In front of what appears to be a socially-distanced and masked-up crowd on Friday, Egyptian pop star Amr Diab gave his first concert of 2021...

Egypt’s Health Ministry on Monday announced 669 new coronavirus cases, bringing the country’s total number of confirmed cases up to 162,486,...

The Coptic Orthodox Church has announced its plans to resume daily masses at 25 percent capacity, according to Pope Tawadros II, head of the...

Egypt’s long weekend is expected to be marked by unstable weather and rain, according to meteorologists.A strong wind will blow across Cair...

DUBAI (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Yemenis marched in Sanaa on Monday, heeding a call by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement to condemn the...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Facebook said on Monday it removed a post and suspended a messenger bot from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats delivered the impeachment case against Donald Trump to the Senate for the start of his historic trial, but...

WASHINGTON (AP) — These suspects weren’t exactly in hiding.“THIS IS ME,” one man posted on Instagram with a hand emoji pointing to himself...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Health authorities in Taiwan are quarantining 5,000 people while looking for the source of two new coronavirus cases l...

An Egyptian scientist named Mohamed Rahim is among the members of a research team at the University of Lancaster in the UK who have succeede...

MP Amal Salama, a member of the Media and Culture Committee in Egypt’s House of Representatives has completed preparing new amendments to th...

An Egyptian scientist named Mohamed Rahim is among the members of a research team at the University of Lancaster in the UK who have succeede...

On Sunday, the Egyptian Minister of Health and Population Hala Zayed announced that the coronavirus vaccine will cost a maximum of LE200 for...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Eritrean soldiers’ pockets clinked with stolen jewelry. Warily, Zenebu watched them try on dresses and other clot...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities on Monday extradited a former teacher accused of sexually abusing her former students in Australia, cap...

GENEVA (AP) — Four times as many jobs were lost last year due to the coronavirus pandemic as during the worst part of the global financial c...

Around one million people in the Kurdish-governed region of Al-Hasakah in Syria’s northeast have again had their water supply cut off — as t...

Maintenance work began Monday to remove moisture and salt build-up from the external terraces surrounding the Baron Empain Palace.The Super...

(Reuters) – Japan is likely to achieve herd immunity to COVID-19 through mass inoculations only months after the planned Tokyo Olympics, eve...

EgyptAir on Sunday launched a discount package to several of its international destinations.The company has offered a 20 percent discount o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the House prepares to bring the impeachment charge against Donald Trump to the Senate for trial, a growing number of Re...

Egypt’s railway sector is getting a makeover and optimizing its efficiency, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Saturday, adding that all...

ANKARA/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Foreign investors who for years saw Turkey as a lost cause of economic mismanagement are edging back in, drawn b...

DUBAI/JAKARTA (Reuters) – Iran has asked Indonesia to provide details about the seizure of an Iranian-flagged vessel, Iranian Foreign Minist...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced on Saturday a new railway line linking 6th of October City to Aswan, which will cover a to...