CAIRO: The head of Egypt’s Sharqiya governorate security, General Mohamed Nasser al-Antry, said Wednesday that the authorities will be “extremely tough” on the those who cause trouble or calling for it in the Meet Bashar village in Minya al-Qamh district in Sharqiya, where thousands of angry residents surrounded the Virgin Mary church believing a missing [...]
SANA’A: A recent report published by the Seyaj Organization of Childhood Protection confirmed earlier findings from children’s agencies such as UNICEF that children in Yemen were bearing the brunt of the ongoing crisis, caught between a catastrophic humanitarian situation and military conflict. As often in such classic unrest, armed militias are using people’s financial precariousness [...]
CAIRO: The United States Embassy in Egypt issued on Tuesday a statement that the United States “deeply values the longstanding partnership with Egypt and strongly supports Egypt’s transition towards democracy.” The statement pointed out that the US efforts in the past and present have focused on strengthening that partnership. ”We have seen media reports claiming [...]
CAIRO: Bahrain authorities deported 6 Americans from the country for allegedly lying on their visa application forms. Bahraini immigration said Tuesday in a statement that the Americans provided false information on the forms to obtain a tourist visa and stay in the country. They said they were visiting for touristic purposes, “but participated in a [...]
CAIRO: Human Rights First condemned Egypt’s Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Faiza Abul Naga’s statements accusing the United States of “trying to hijack the January 25 revolution and manipulate the situation in Egypt in accordance with its interests and that the American insistence of supporting NGOs signals a clear scheme to disrupt any opportunity [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq announced on Tuesday his candidacy for the presidency, saying that he would submit his nomination papers on March 10, immediately after the opening of the doors for presidential candidates to nominate themselves. Shafiq said at a press conference on Tuesday, “I am honored to announce my candidacy for [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s presidential elections will be held in late May, the state-run al-Ahram newspaper reported on Wednesday, quoting Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Mohamed Attia. It also affirmed the military junta’s commitment to opening presidential nominations on March 10 for a period of three weeks, but an exact date for the vote has yet to be [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Advisory Council to the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has called on the Supreme Committee supervising presidential elections to speed up the timetable for the presidential elections, which has been announced to open the door for presidential nominations on March 10. This came at a news conference on Tuesday, where [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s government on Tuesday repealed the death sentences from the Supreme Emergency State Security Court against three men for their participation in an October 2004 bombing at the Sinai resort of Taba and the 2005 bombing in Sharm el-Sheikh. The move has been received with praise from human rights organizations in the country, who [...]
New York (dpa) – The UN General Assembly was to vote this week on a resolution condemning the violent repression of opposition in Syria, a diplomat said. The assembly was expected to convene Thursday or Friday, a diplomatic source said late Tuesday. Its vote would follow the failure of the UN Security Council to pass [...]
CAIRO: Calm has reportedly returned to the Minya Qamh district in the Egypt governorate of Sharqiya in the Nile Delta region after the 16-year-old missing girl was found on Tuesday and rejoined her mother and a sectarian crisis was contained. The issue began when Rania Khalil, 16, a recent convert to Islam, went missing and [...]
Beirut (dpa) – Syrian forces on Tuesday shelled the besieged city of Homs for a tenth consecutive day as the European Union prepared to impose a new round of sanctions on the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking in Berlin ahead of talks with Arab League head Nabil al-Arabi, said the [...]
CAIRO: Egypt presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabahy began a political tour on Tuesday to promote his electoral program in Cairo, Sabahy’s campaign reported. He visited the Socialist Public Union Party and the Egyptian Socialist Party and met with their founders before leaving the capital Cairo, heading to Minya and Assiut in Upper Egypt to spend a [...]
CAIRO: Egypt state media anchor Rasha Azab and the head of the news sector Abdel al-Aziz el-Helw of Nile News were released shortly after they were investigated with on Tuesday for their coverage presented the day of the Maspero massacre in early October 2011, which had an inciting tone against protesters. Coptic protesters, who were [...]
CAIRO: A British woman who had been barred from leaving Egypt due to investigations into NGO workers in the country was allowed to leave the country on Tuesday, security sources reported. The British trainer at an unnamed NGO was stopped from her London-bound plane late last week, however, she was not arrested, but notified she [...]
CAIRO: More than 100,000 civilians are trapped inside the restive area of Baba Amr, in the central Syrian province of Homs, as a result of heavy government shelling that had killed at least 24 people by early evening on Tuesday, an activist said. “The shelling is so intense. People are trapped and they do not [...]
CAIRO: A Moroccan court has handed an activist a three year jail sentence and a hefty financial fine for “insulting the king” Mohamed VI. Abdel Samad al-Haydour, 25, a student of applied technology and a rights activists was featured in an online video with another young activist discussing the current political atmosphere in the kingdom [...]
CAIRO: A goodwill delegation of around 100 of Egypt’s thinkers, artists and media took a trip on Monday to the city of Port Said in an attempt to close the wedge between the seaside city and the rest of the country after violence at a football match in the city left 75 dead and hundreds [...]
CAIRO: Over the past week, tensions between the Coptic Christian community in Egypt and the new parliament have increased over the forced evictions in a village near Alexandria on the Mediterranean Sea of Coptic families. The incident has sparked outrage among human rights activists, Coptic Christians and observers alike. They have referred to the forcing [...]
CAIRO: The head of the liberal Free Egyptians Party Ahmed Saeed member of Egypt’s Lower House of Parliament said his party insisted on demanding holding presidential elections prior to the drafting of a new Constitution. Saeed said in a statement on Monday that “the parliament’s legislative committee rejection of his request to discuss his proposed [...]
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