EGYPT INDEPENDENT

Egyptian football star Mohammed Salah on Sunday congratulated Egyptian bodybuilding player Rami al-Sebaei for becoming the first ever Egypti...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dozens of journalists at Al-Jazeera, the Qatari state-owned media company, have been targeted by advanced...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Once in office, President-elect Joe Biden will punish Russia for its suspected cyberespionage operation against the United...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates’ top diplomat has publicly acknowledged a so-far unexplained ban on visitors fro...

Reports from Britain and South Africa of new coronavirus strains that seem to spread more easily are causing alarm, but virus experts say it...

TOKYO (Reuters) – Shoppers washed their hands and sterilised their smartphones in the streets of Tokyo’s posh Ginza district on Saturday usi...

The Assistant Egyptian Health Minister for Research Affairs Noha Assem assured on Sunday that the roughly 3,000 volunteers for clinical tria...

OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. (AP) — Workers on Sunday began packaging shipments of the second COVID-19 vaccine authorized in the US, a desperately ne...

MILAN (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic did not produce Elena Simone’s first budgetary rough patch. The 49-year-old single mother found hersel...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait’s Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al Sabah, the eldest son of the late emir, who emerged as an influential ref...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The owner of Dubai’s struggling theme park operator is planning to sell itself to its majority shareholde...

Luxor on Monday will celebrate the alignment of the sun with the statue of the God Amun at the Karnak temple.The astronomical event will be...

Alaa Mubarak, son of the late ex-President Hosni Mubarak, announced Saturday that his family is planning a lawsuit against the European Unio...

Winter season starts on Monday in Egypt with moderately warm weather across most parts of the country.Warm weather is expected for South Si...

The US dollar to Egyptian pound exchange rates on Sunday slightly decreased by one piaster for purchase and sale rates, recording LE15.63 fo...

The coral reefs at the Red Sea reserves are in grave danger as a result of rising environmental violations including illegal fishing by traw...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — In October, Indonesian diplomats and Muslim clerics stepped off a plane in China. While the diplomats were there t...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s Central Bank on Saturday announced it will devalue the Iraqi dinar by over 20 percent in response to a severe liquidit...

THE HAGUE (AP) — The Netherlands is banning flights from the U.K. for at least the rest of the year in an attempt to make sure that a new st...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A car bomb blast that rocked Afghanistan’s capital Sunday morning killed at least nine people, according to the Af...

Egyptian bodybuilding champion Ramy al-Sebai, dubbed “Big Ramy”, won the golden medal in the two-day Mr. Olympia Championship 2020 event hel...

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry announced that Egypt intends to organize a meeting to include Germany, France, Egypt and Jordan with...

Egypt’s parliament and human rights organizations on Saturday have further condemned a European report on the state of Egyptian human rights...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel on Sunday began its coronavirus inoculation drive, aiming to vaccinate some 60,000 people a day in a bid to s...

As the country’s financial crisis continues, Lebanon’s central bank has warned it could run out of money to pay subsidies on basic goods by...