EGYPT INDEPENDENT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday designated the Bahrain-based Saraya al-Mukhtar group as a terrorist organization, accusi...

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Iran is not conducting its investigation into the downing of a civilian airliner in January properly and many questions r...

DEBAJA, Iraq (AP) — After living in a camp for three years, 70-year-old Merhi Hamed Abdullah returned to his village west of the city of Mos...

BEIJING (Reuters) – A small county in China has said it is preparing to offer novel coronavirus vaccinations to residents for about $65, one...

KUWAIT (Reuters) – Kuwait’s ruler told the new parliament, in which opposition candidates made gains, that comprehensive reform was needed t...

A traffic accident south of the Red Sea at the Shalateen-Aburamad road has killed 3 people and left 11 injured. Initial investigations into...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds more US hospitals are set to begin vaccinating their workers Tuesday as federal regulators issued a positive revi...

AMSTERDAM (AP) — As Canadians, Britons and Americans begin getting immunized with a German-developed vaccine against coronavirus, pressure i...

SIDI BOUZID, Tunisia (Reuters) – Ten years ago, a fruit seller set himself ablaze in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid after an alter...

Christmas mealtimes this year might be a little more private thanks to the lockdown and preventive measures to curb COVID-19 – but that does...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — In the blockaded Gaza Strip, the Christmas season is giving a boost to a small women’s business that produces p...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel could be open to future cooperation on missile defense with Gulf Arab states that share its concerns over Iran,...

Kuwaiti civil aviation authorities have informed EgyptAir, Kuwait Airways and Jazeera Airways that they will allow airlines to resume flight...

Technology expert Walid Abdel Maqsoud has warned users to avoid communication apps such as Telegram due to privacy concerns.In a phone-in w...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany on Tuesday increased the pressure on the European Union’s regulatory agency, with its health minister, a leading hospi...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday congratulated Joe Biden on winning the US presidential election after weeks of hol...

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s Mostaqbal Watn (Nation’s Future) Party, which strongly backs President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, secured nearly 55 per...

Security forces in a police station in the Egyptian city of Ras Ghareb on Red Sea reportedly foiled an escape attempt after prisoners set fi...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A former Australian school principal accused of sexually assaulting students lost her appeal against extradition in Is...

The filmmakers and distributors of the Egyptian movie “Virus” on Monday decided to pull the movie from theaters across Egypt, after reportin...

ROME (Reuters) – Italian prosecutors said on Thursday they planned to charge four senior members of Egypt’s security services over their all...

(Reuters) – The United States has imposed sanctions on Turkey for purchasing Russian defense systems, targeting Turkey’s top defense procure...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For weeks, President Donald Trump has put America’s democratic institutions under unprecedented strain as he fights to hol...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s president has announced a four-day lockdown starting New Year’s Eve to curb the spread of COVID-1...

EW DELHI (AP) — With Americans, Britons and Canadians rolling up their sleeves to receive coronavirus vaccines, the route out of the pandemi...