EGYPT INDEPENDENT

Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly on Sunday chaired a meeting with several ministers and officials to discuss measures to counter the second w...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed a $900 billion pandemic relief package, ending days of drama over his refusal...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Coronavirus restrictions that have significantly limited his public appearances. Warning signals for an economy ba...

DUBAI (Reuters) – Heavy snowfall has killed 12 climbers in mountains north of Iran’s capital, Tehran, while rough waters capsized a ship in...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel began what officials hope will be its last coronavirus lockdown on Sunday as they ramp up vaccinations to a pac...

The head of the Egyptian Customs Authority Kamal Negm announced Sunday that an agreement has been reached with Sudan on all logistics measur...

The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research’s spokesperson Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar announced Saturday that COVID-19 infection rate...

Meteorologists predict moderately warm weather on Monday across Cairo, the Delta Governorates, northern Upper Egypt and the northeastern coa...

Alexandria’s Economic Court on Sunday has lifted the two-year prison sentence for popular singer Hamo Beka, following a reconciliation submi...

LONDON (AP) — Hurricane-force winds reaching up to 106 mph (170 kph) and heavy rainstorms battered parts of Britain on Sunday, disrupting tr...

ROME (Reuters) – Almost 10 months after the first Italian patient tested positive for the new coronavirus, Italy on Sunday vaccinated the fi...

Cairo’s Child Criminal Court on Sunday has ruled to place 13-year-old Ahmed Abu Al-Hamad into a social care institution, while sentencing hi...

CAIRO (AP) — The death of a Sudanese man who was snatched while sitting at a coffee shop has sparked controversy around the scope of a param...

BEIRUT (AP) — More than 300 Syrian refugees were forced to flee an informal camp in northern Lebanon as a blaze raged through and burnt tent...

Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly alongside Minster of Youth and Sports Ashraf Sobhy and the President of the International Handball Federatio...

Gold prices declined in Egypt on Sunday with the price of 21-karat (the market’s highest selling gold) falling by three LE per gram to LE817...

The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced 35 defendants to prison sentences ranging from life to five years over charges of assembly and using viol...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of Israelis protested against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday, calling on the long-serving leader to...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Friday ordered the government to finalize all studies on the fish farming sector to help better a...

Egypt’s Health has announced 1,189 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, the highest figure of the second wave sweeping the nation.These numbe...

TOKYO — Japan’s government will temporarily ban entry of all nonresident foreign nationals as a precaution against a new and potentially mor...

DUBAI (Reuters) – Gulf Arab foreign ministers will hold a virtual meeting hosted by Bahrain on Sunday ahead of an annual summit to discuss s...

DAR MANGI, Pakistan (AP) — Arifullah Khan had just administered another polio vaccine when the gunfire blasted from the nearby hills.“It ha...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The swanky, billion-dollar casinos of Las Vegas are bedecked with shining towers, neon signs and eye-popping extravagance....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A series of avalanches in Iran killed 10 people in a mountainous area north of the capital, state TV reported Sunday.Th...