EGYPT INDEPENDENT

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Declaring “America is back,” President-elect Joe Biden introduced his national security team, his first substantive...

DUBAI (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates has stopped issuing new visas to citizens of 13 mostly Muslim-majority countries, including Iran,...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday phoned Jonathan Pollard, the former US Navy analyst convicted of spyin...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s prime minister is rejecting a growing international consensus for dialogue and a halt to deadly fighting in...

AMMAN (Reuters) – The Syrian army said early Wednesday that Israel launched air strikes on an area in the southern outskirts of Damascus, wh...

The BBC announced its list of the 100 most inspiring women from around the world for 2020, with two Egyptians joining the list of women driv...

The 2020 edition of the Aswan Water Sports Festival, dubbed “Paddle The Nile,” concluded its events on Monday.The festival was held in Aswa...

Aimed at stopping the spread of germs, mobile phone and electronics company Bullitt has unveiled the world’s first anti-bacterial phone.The...

NEW YORK (AP) — These days, with a pandemic raging, this is what life can look like:Staring at your face on Zoom for hours instead of occas...

ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI (Reuters) – The Ethiopian government said on Tuesday that Tigrayan soldiers were surrendering in the face of its advance...

A statement published on the official website of the Russian Sputnik-V coronavirus vaccine announced that the price of a dose of the vaccine...

GENEVA (Reuters) – Dozens of nations began pledging billions of dollars in aid for Afghanistan at a conference in Geneva on Tuesday, hoping...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A Turkish court on Tuesday added new defendants to the case against Saudi officials charged over the murder of journali...

The Egyptian Syndicate of Artists, headed by Ashraf Zaki, on Monday moved to suspend artist and singer Mohamed Ramadan until his appearance...

Egypt’s law is going through a process of complete overhaul, the legal advisor to the Central Bank of Egypt Tamer al-Dakkak said, beginning...

In a press statement on Monday, Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population reported 354 new coronavirus cases and 12 virus-related deaths.10...

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran expects foreign companies to return to the country if US sanctions are lifted under President-elect Joe Biden and som...

About one million Americans a day packed airports and planes over the weekend even as coronavirus deaths surged across the US and public hea...

KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan (Reuters) – Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Tuesday vowed to defend the democratic island’s sovereignty with the construc...

Egyptian Cabinet Spokesperson Nader Saad denied social media rumors on Monday that the government will impose a curfew during the 2020 CAF C...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that he spoke with the crown prince of Bahrain and would visit the G...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Roman Catholic Church announced the cancellation Monday of what’s considered the world’s largest Catholic pilgri...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Prosecutors in Qatar said Monday that the airport police officers who ordered forced vaginal examinati...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s government is again warning residents of the besieged capital of the embattled Tigray region as the clock t...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel sent a first delegation to Sudan to discuss potential economic and humanitarian cooperation on Monday after the...