EGYPT INDEPENDENT

On Monday, Egypt’s Minister of Health Hala Zayed refuted claims from the World Health Organization that Egypt has one of the highest death r...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo plans to use newly declassified US intelligence on Tuesday to publicly accuse Iran...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US military has not halted a US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Department of Defense told Reuters on Mond...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s king Tuesday approved a coronavirus emergency that will suspend parliament at least until August an...

 The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population reported 961 new coronavirus cases on Monday, down from 993 on Sunday.The ministry also an...

The Minister of Health and Population Hala Zayed announced Monday that the date to start the vaccination rollout against COVID-19 will be in...

BEIJING (AP) — Experts from the World Health Organization are due to arrive in China this week for a long-anticipated investigation into th...

The Egyptian Navy’s Commander-in-Chief Lieutenant General, Ahmed Khaled Saeed on Monday attended a ceremony celebrating the arrival of the f...

Egypt’s Health and Population Ministry issued a warning on Monday that smoking increases the risk of respiratory diseases such as tuberculos...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Monday advanced plans to build 800 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, a move that could strain ties wit...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister said Monday the country has entered a “very critical zone” in the battle against the corona...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will proceed with legislation to impeach President Donald Trump as she pushes th...

Egyptian actress Dina el-Sherbiny began filming the first scenes of her upcoming TV series “Qasr al-Nile”, scheduled to be shown during Rama...

Ethiopia broke ground on Saturday and began building a new dam worth US$125 million in North Shewa, Amhara Region. Construction is expected...

Egypt on Sunday explained that the recent sessions of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) negotiations have failed once again due to diff...

Meteorologist predict warm weather across Egypt on Tuesday and Wednesday, with the northwestern coastal cities growing significantly cooler...

(CNN) — The days of strolling into an airport, flashing a passport, then hopping on a flight to wherever one likes are, for now, a distant m...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The highest ranking US diplomat for North Africa and the Middle East traveled Saturday to the city of Laayoune, which...

(Reuters) – Washington’s mayor has asked for increased security around the inauguration of US President-elect Joe Biden after last week’s st...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was given the title of general secretary of the ruling Workers’ Party formerly hel...

The higher committee of the 27th Men’s Handball World Championship on Sunday has ruled to host the championship’s matches without any fan at...

A member of Egypt’s Supreme Committee for Viruses at the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research said on Sunday that the antivi...

The impact of conflict and corruption on the environment in the Middle East is often easy to see but difficult to remedy. The long list of c...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden appeared on television last week as a bipartisan group of lawmakers huddled in an undisclo...

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese official on Monday denied Beijing has imposed coercive birth control measures among Muslim minority women, followi...