EGYPT INDEPENDENT

A private aircraft took off from Hurghada International Airport on the Red Sea on Friday carrying Egyptian internationals Mohamed Salah and...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has reported 386 new cases of the coronavirus in a resurgence that could force authorities to reimpose...

ABS, Yemen (AP) — The twin baby boys lay on a bed of woven palm leaves in a remote camp for displaced people in Yemen’s north, their collar...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Russia on Friday stopped a UN Security Council committee from blacklisting a Libyan militia group and its leader for hu...

NAIROBI (Reuters) – COVID-19 has exposed Kenya’s debt vulnerabilities though official measures including monetary policy easing have helped...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received a phone call from the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Friday, where they discussed...

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team led by Uma Ramakrishnan held a virtual meeting session with Egyptian officials from November 4 unt...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iran has instructed allies across the Middle East to be on high alert and avoid provoking tensions with the US that could giv...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman by phone ahead of the G-20 virtual summit...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump sought to leverage the power of the Oval Office on Friday in an extraordinary attempt to block Pres...

NAIROBI/ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia denied on Saturday that talks on the growing conflict in its northern Tigray region were imminent,...

Meteorologists expect a slight drop in temperatures across the country on Saturday, with mild weather prevailing in most part of South Sinai...

PARIS (AP) — France’s government was working Friday to get supermarket chains and e-commerce platforms to agree to a week-long postponement...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations refugee agency says about 32,000 people have fled Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region into neig...

CAIRO (AP) — The global pandemic and ensuing lockdown have taken their toll on the mental and physical well-being of millions of kids in the...

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s authorities signed a contract this month with a German company to clear dangerous material stored for more than...

On Friday morning, Egypt’s Alexandria Governorate issued an urgent warning to its citizens, asking them to not leave their homes due to unin...

Did Macron catch the vicious “bug” of sectarianism from Lebanese officials when he met them in Beirut? They know how to back away from secta...

The Egyptian Minister of Local Development, Mahmoud Shaarawy, praised the Cabinet’s decision to set opening and closing hours for retail sho...

An Egyptian Armed Forces spokesperson announced a small blast on Thursday hitting a gas pipeline in the Sabika area, 10 km west of al-Midan,...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish authorities have issued detention warrants for 101 people including lawyers and doctors as part of what they ca...

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hundreds of parked tour buses are gathering dust at a northern Hong Kong container port, having been off the road for...

Egyptian media has reported that 12 people were killed in a traffic accident on the eastern desert road near Abu Qurqas Center in Minya Gove...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A university official says the latest airstrike by Ethiopia’s military has struck the school in the capital of the def...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said it launched a heavy warship Thursday capable of carrying helicopters, drone...