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Several hotels and tourist villages in Hurghada have announced a partial closure, due to the low foreign occupancy as COVID-19 surges in tou...

Luxor will see 174 development projects with a total public investment of LE2.86 billion as part of the country’s investment plan for fiscal...

Standard and Poor’s (S&P) has kept Egypt’s credit rating in domestic and hard currencies at level B, maintaining a stable outlook for the se...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The slow pace of this year’s US election count is fueling a lot of criticism, but it’s mostly a reflection of laudable thi...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A leading Iranian human rights lawyer has been released from prison, Iran’s state-run news agency reported Saturday, aft...

BEIRUT (Reuters) – President Michel Aoun said on Saturday that Lebanon would seek evidence and documents from the United States that led Was...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s wild and unsupported claims of voter fraud have emerged as a high-stakes Republican loyalty test...

Hurghada’s Public Prosecution office on Saturday ordered an Egyptian-American man be detained four days pending investigations, having grown...

DUBAI (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates said on Saturday it was cancelling lenient penalties for so-called “honor killings” and amending...

BASRA, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi security forces opened fire during clashes with hundreds of protesters in the southern city of Basra on Friday, kil...

Unstable weather and heavy rains have thrashed Alexandria since the early hours of Saturday morning, with local authorities suspending study...

HALLE, Belgium (AP) — In times when a pandemic unleashes death and poverty, the concept of what is essential to keep society functioning in...

The Cairo Criminal Court on Thursday convicted 66 defendants Rabaa dispersal violence, which took place in August 2013 and killed 632 people...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Demands to stop the vote count. Baseless accusations of fraud. Claims that the opposition is trying to “steal” the...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden’s transition team isn’t waiting for a verdict in the presidential race before getting to work.As official...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopian jets bombed the Tigray region on Friday and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed pledged more air strikes in the esca...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A bomb attached to the vehicle of a former presenter on Afghanistan’s TOLO TV exploded early Saturday, killing the...

KHIRBET HUMSU, West Bank (AP) — Israel has come under heavy criticism after the military demolished several homes and other structures in a...

The second phase of the Egyptian House of Representatives elections will start Sunday across 13 governorates over two days.During this peri...

CAIRO (Reuters) – Commercial International Bank (CIB) Chairman Hisham Ezz al-Arab is stepping down with immediate effect under orders from t...

Gold prices declined in Egypt on Monday, as the price of 21-karat gold (the market’s highest selling gold) fell by 2 LE per gram, due in par...

The Egyptian Minister of International Cooperation, Rania al-Mashat, said on Tuesday that Egypt outscored all other Arab countries by 50 per...

Egyptian football star Mohamed Salah recently made history in Liverpool, after he scored his 100th goal for the Reds in the Merseyside Derby...

A group of Egyptian government officials, along with the European Union’s delegation to Egypt inaugurated and toured on Friday the renovated...

PARIS (Reuters) – Paris will ban delivery and takeaway services for prepared food and alcohol between 10 pm and 6 am from Friday to limit th...