EGYPT INDEPENDENT

KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli faced a fresh political challenge on Friday as hundreds of opponents protested...

ANKARA (Reuters) -President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey would like to have better ties with Israel and that talks at intellige...

Ethiopia’s military on Thursday killed at least 42 people allegedly responsible for massacring over 100 civilians a day earlier, according t...

It was past 10:00 on a Friday night, and the party was in full swing. Hundreds of young men and women had come to Baghdad’s swanky Ishtar Ho...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday granted pardons to his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former adviser Roger Stone, sweeping a...

The National Bank of Egypt reduced the interest rate or return on its three-year Platinum Certificates, the return of which is paid monthly,...

Egyptian football player and Liverpool star Mohamed Salah on Friday posted photos with his family celebrating Christmas, CNN reported.Salah...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The grand, 500-year-old brick walls of the al-Kamalaia School slowly emerged from years of accumulated garbage...

BEIRUT (Reuters) – They gather in groups, wearing black, in the shadow of buildings gutted by the explosion that shook this city on August 4...

Rosa Otero prepares her dinner for another nightly meal in solitude.This pandemic Christmas Eve has turned what should be a preciously scar...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan aims to eliminate gasoline-powered vehicles in about 15 years, the government said Friday in a plan to achieve Prime Mini...

The Egyptian governorate of North Sinai reported that the main gas pipeline feeding the city of al-Arish was bombed on Thursday evening, in...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel will impose a third national lockdown to fight surging COVID-19 infections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Faris Fadel had just one word to describe the recent pardoning by the Trump administration of four private security contract...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — With rich countries snapping up supplies of COVID-19 vaccines, some parts of the world may have to rely on Chinese-dev...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US government will require all airline passengers arriving from the United Kingdom to test negative for COVID-...

Egypt’s Minister of Finance and Chairman of the Comprehensive Health Insurance Authority Mohammad Maait said on Thursday that that the minis...

Egypt’s Interior Ministry announced on Thursday that it has successfully arrested a gang specialized in swindling and defrauding the public...

The Head of the Interim Committee for Managing Zamalek Club Counselor Ahmed al-Bakri died from coronavirus complications after spending a we...

Meteorologists predict mild weather on Friday across Cairo, the Delta Governorates, and the North Coast, with moderately warm weather in nor...

Assistant Egyptian Health Minister Noha Assem said on Thursday morning that Egypt is at the center of the second wave of coronavirus, stress...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco has imposed a curfew, closed restaurants in major cities and banned public and private gatherings for three we...

PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron is showing no more symptoms of COVID-19, the Elysee office said on Thursday.Macron, 43, c...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis promised in his Christmas messages on Thursday to visit Lebanon and South Sudan as soon as he could....

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s Transport Ministry on Thursday fined EVA Airways Corp T$1 million ($35,000) after the government blamed one of i...