EGYPT INDEPENDENT

Montserrat Parello lost her husband eight years ago, and Christmas gatherings with children and grandchildren had helped her deal with her...

LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The United Kingdom and the European Union have still not clinched a Brexit trade deal to avoid a turbulent split...

BANGKOK (AP) — After managing against the odds to keep the coronavirus largely in check for most of the year, Thailand has suddenly found it...

Egypt’s Ministry of International Cooperation announced that in cooperation with its international partners, it was able to secure approxima...

GHAEMSHAHR, Iran (AP) — Deep in the lush valleys of northern Iran, where the Alborz Mountains crumble toward the sea, Ali Rahimi takes up hi...

Egypt reported fresh surge in daily infections with COVID-19 on Wednesday, as the country official battling with the second wave of coronavi...

A rocket attack on Baghdad’s diplomatic Green Zone Sunday night was “a terrorist act” that undermines Iraq’s international reputation,...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov has told UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres he will be unable to take up the rol...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The US government is close to a deal to acquire tens of millions of additional doses of Pfizer’s vaccine in exchange for h...

Can employers make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory?Yes, with some exceptions.Experts say employers can require employees to take safety me...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Tuesday slapped fresh sanctions on Syria, targeting its central bank and blacklisting several peo...

ANKARA (Reuters) – The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Turkey must immediately release prominent Kurdish politician Sel...

RABAT (Reuters) – Israeli envoys arrived in Morocco on Tuesday to meet the king and flesh out an upgrade of relations that was forged by the...

Meteorologists predict mild weather on Wednesday across Cairo, the Nile Delta region, and the North Coast, with moderately warm weather in n...

Wholesale prices for potatoes have decreased sharply over the past week, driving Egyptian farmers to abandon their own crops due to lockdown...

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Near the wreckage of Beirut’s port, a charity is bringing Christmas cheer to a city hammered by a devastating explosion,...

Iranian women are expected to wear veils in public — and also in ads. A recent clip featuring a woman without the hijab has led authorities...

BERLIN (AP) — German pharmaceutical company BioNTech is confident that its coronavirus vaccine works against the new UK variant, but further...

TOKYO (AP) — The official cost of the postponed Tokyo Olympics has increased by 22%, the local organizing committee said in unveiling its ne...

Cairo’s Criminal Court referred the death sentences of three individuals found guilty for the death of a child to Grand Mufti Shawky Allam f...

The GQ Middle East magazine has celebrated Egyptian actor Ahmed Malek by awarding him the “Breakthrough Actor Of the Year” award for 2020, w...

Khaled Emran, the Secretary General for Fatwa at Egypt’s Dar al-Iftaa, the government’s principal Islamic legal institution for issuing fatw...

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s Justice Ministry said Tuesday the US Congress has moved forward on Washington’s promise to end the African country’s pa...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel on Tuesday was on course for a fourth national election in two years after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The huge pandemic relief and spending bill includes billions of dollars to promote clean energy such as wind and solar pow...