EGYPT INDEPENDENT

PARIS (Reuters) – Iran is in the process of building up its nuclear weapons capacity and it is urgent that Tehran and Washington retur...

The Medical Committee of the 2021 World Men’s Handball Championship announced Friday that 950 PCR tests were conducted during the past 24 ho...

A recent economic report from the MasterCard Economics Institute showed that over 72 percent of Egyptians have shopped online more since Feb...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on companies in Iran, China and the United Arab Emirates for doing busi...

Meteorologists predict moderate weather on Sunday over Cairo, Lower Egypt, northern Upper Egypt, and the northeastern coasts, with moderatel...

Dozens of hotel and tourist villages owners in Marsa Alam are now facing a crisis as the coronavirus pandemic has halted foreign tourist fli...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to boost supplies of coronavirus vaccine and set up new vaccination sites to m...

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Saturday fired long-range ballistic missiles into the Indian Ocean on the second day of a m...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India started inoculating health workers Saturday in what is likely the world’s largest COVID-19 vaccination campaign, join...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was awarded the 2020 Africa Road Builders – Babacar Ndiaye Great Road Builder Award on January 15th,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden’s plan to scrap President Donald Trump’s vision of “America First” in favor of “diplomacy first”...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump on Friday received Morocco’s highest award for his work in advancing a normalization deal b...

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s parliament on Friday approved a law that paves the way for the government to sign deals for coronavirus vaccine...

Tourism and Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anany on Friday has reopened the Isis Temple to the public following the completion of restoratio...

Official sources at Egypt’s Health and Population Ministry have projected that the country’s vaccination program will start on February 1, w...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The global death toll from COVID-19 topped two million Friday, crossing the threshold amid a vaccine rollout so immense b...

Responding to warnings of potentially violent demonstrations, governors across the nation are calling out National Guard troops, declaring s...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States called Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates “major security partners” early Saturday, a...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United Nations is concerned that a US plan to blacklist Yemen’s Houthi movement on Tuesday will hinder its efforts...

CAIRO, January 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When 83-year-old Farida El Choubachy ran for parliament in Egypt last year, she did not exp...

CAIRO (Reuters) – Bahrain’s Bank ABC completed its purchase of the Egyptian subsidiary of Lebanon’s Blom Bank for $480 million on Thursday,...

ANKARA (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday he hoped positive steps will be taken on Turkey’s role in the F-35 jet programme...

For weeks, US President Donald Trump has been maintaining that Democrats rigged the election in November and stole the vote. After he whippe...

An Egyptian judge overturned an acquittal verdict of two young women who were jailed last year for posting “indecent” videos on the social m...

The Egyptian Antiquities Registration Center, part of Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, has issued a new book in French titled: “...