EGYPT INDEPENDENT

BEIRUT (AP) — Ghassan Hasrouty spent most of his life working at the silos in Beirut’s port, unloading grain shipments to feed the coun...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Wednesday that Israel will begin vaccinating the public a...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX launched its shiny, bullet-shaped, straight-out-of-science fiction Starship several miles into the air fr...

The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population confirmed on Wednesday 421 new coronavirus cases, down from 434 on Tuesday.The ministry also...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate fell short Wednesday in trying to halt the Trump administration’s proposed $23 billion arms sales to the United...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine faces one final hurdle as it races to become the first shot greenlighted in the US: a panel of e...

Rainbow flags will be allowed in stadiums at the 2022 World Cup after Qatar said it would comply with FIFA rules promoting tolerance and inc...

Fourteen passengers of a Mansoura-Matareya train were left with a variety of injuries including abrasions and fractures following a crash on...

The Egyptian man who passed out money from his balcony says will sue those who defame him through social media for libel.A video clip that...

KIRKUK (Reuters) -Two wells in a small oilfield in northern Iraq were set ablaze by explosives in a “terrorist attack” on Wednesday but over...

JERUSALEM — The number of Israeli households living under the poverty line has grown by nearly 50 percent during the coronavirus pandemic, a...

LONDON (AP) — UK regulators said Wednesday that people who have a “significant history” of allergic reactions shouldn’t receive the new Pfiz...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian health officials have found traces of nickel and lead in a few blood samples taken from hundreds of patients who hav...

Egypt’s Treasury and Mint authorities has unveiled a set of medals celebrating the 1050th anniversary of Cairo’s founding.The medals were...

Six people died during trials of the coronavirus vaccine produced by the American pharmaceutical company “Pfizer” and the German “BioNTech”...

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Tuesday that the negotiations aimed at resolving the Qatar diplomatic crisis have witnessed...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that US sanctions are making it difficult for Iran to purchase medicine a...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s government is rejecting calls for independent investigations into the deadly conflict in its Tigray region,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans waiting for Republicans in Congress to acknowledge Joe Biden as the president-elect may have to keep waiting unt...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A United Nations analysis of photos of four anti-tank guided missiles in Libya found that one “had characteristics cons...

Egypt’s Health Ministry on Tuesday confirmed 434 new coronavirus cases, ministry spokesperson Khaled Megahed announced, raising the nation’s...

The Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Health Emergencies Programme for the Eastern Mediterranean, Rick Brennan, said on Tuesda...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A woman whose son was killed in a volcanic eruption in New Zealand a year ago said that as she stood crying,...

Deaths from COVID-19 in the US have soared to more than 2,200 a day on average, matching the frightening peak reached last April, and cases...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States imposed terrorism sanctions on Iran’s envoy to the Houthis on Tuesday, a step possibly aimed at pre...