EGYPT INDEPENDENT

The United States on Thursday designated Egypt’s “Sawa’d Masr” islamist militant group, known as “HASM” as a foreign terrorist organization,...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s top challenger in upcoming elections is promising a tough line toward Ir...

Amazonas state in northern Brazil has admitted it is running short of oxygen to help those hospitalized with COVID-19 to breathe as the coun...

Students at Jordan’s Tafila Technical University have initiated a campaign to draw further attention to the potential harm caused by “jalwa,...

MADRID (AP) — While most of Europe kicked off 2021 with earlier curfews or stay-at-home orders, authorities in Spain insist the new coronavi...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The US military has met its goal of reducing the number of troops in Afghanistan to about 2,500 by Friday, a drawdown that...

EgyptAir announced that passengers traveling to the United States and United Kingdom will soon be required to present a negative PCR test fo...

MANIAL SULTAN, Egypt (AP) — Yassin Saeed remembers when the Nile’s annual flood drenched his village in the years before the construction of...

The Chinese Genex Pharmaceutical company on Thursday inked a cooperation protocol with two of the world’s largest manufacturers of vaccines,...

(CNN) – More than a hundred people were arrested in Brussels on Wednesday night after violent protests over the death of a man in polic...

CAIRO (AP) — Dozens of Sudanese rallied in the capital, Khartoum, on Thursday to demand the closure of illegal detention centers following t...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden has unveiled a $1.9 trillion coronavirus plan to end “a crisis of deep human suffering” by...

JAKARTA (Reuters) – A 6.2-magnitude earthquake on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island killed at least 35 people and injured hundreds on Friday, with...

The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population on Wednesday confirmed 1,022 new coronavirus cases, up from 996 on Tuesday, ministry spokespe...

If there was any way that Dubai could be become even more international than it used to be, it did so following the Abraham Accords peace ag...

LONDON (Reuters) – Insurers are set to raise the cost of providing cover for merchant ships through the Red Sea after a series of incidents...

REHELIM, West Bank/DUBAI (Reuters) – Wine produced in an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank and labelled “from the land of Israel”...

Delta Air Lines closed the books on a disastrous 2020 with a comparatively small fourth-quarter loss, and executives expect a few more rocky...

WUHAN, China (AP) — The WHO team of international researchers that arrived in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday hopes to find cl...

Gold prices declined in Egypt on Thursday, with the price of 21-karat (the market’s highest selling gold) falling by LE3 per gram to LE810 c...

Accompanied by Egypt’s Ministers of Tourism and Antiquities and Emigration, Egyptian-Canadian film star Mena Massoud visited the Pyramids a...

Egypt signed a memorandum of understanding with Germany’s Siemens on Thursday for the construction of a US$23 billion high-speed train line...

An Egyptian appeals court has overturned prison sentences for two well-known TikTok influencers, in a high-profile public morality case, st...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday called on Egypt to review its data on coronavirus infections and deaths.During an intervie...

Meteorologists predict moderately cool temperatures across Egypt on Friday, with warm weather lingering along the northeast coast and in Sou...