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Fire erupts at toy warehouse north of Cairo, no casualties
CAIRO: Civil protection forces contained a fire that erupted Sunday morning at a toy warehouse at Cairo’s northern district of al-Mokkatam, Youm7 reported. Ten fire trucks were dispatched to the site...
View ArticleSaudi-led coalition denies attacking home of Oman envoy to Yemen
DUBAI: A Saudi-led coalition has denied its warplanes bombed the Omani ambassador’s home in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, target of months of its air strikes, and called for an investigation, Saudi media...
View ArticleTourism ministry meets with Mexican delegation
CAIRO: Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou met with a Mexican delegation of tour operators Saturday in Cairo and offered his condolences over the recent killing and injury of a number of Mexican tourists by...
View ArticleSaudi airstrikes kill 11 and wound over 50: Yemen officials
SANAA: Security officials and witnesses say the Saudi-led coalition’s airstrikes in Yemen against a Shiite rebel stronghold and prison facility have killed 11 and wounded more than 50 rebels and...
View ArticleYemen rebels release 6 foreign hostages: Officials
SANAA: Yemen’s Shiite rebels and officials at the airport in the country’s capital, Sanaa, say six foreign hostages have been released after being held in the city for more than five months. The...
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Government bids for 6.5B EGP in T-bills Sunday
CAIRO: The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) on behalf of the Ministry of Finance auctioned 6.5 billion EGP ($830 million) in treasury bills Sunday, according to the bank’s official website. Egypt’s central...
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Egypt banks, stock market shut from Sept.23-27 for Eid al-Adha
CAIRO: The Central Bank of Egypt and the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) will shut from Wednesday Sept. 23 to Sunday Sept. 27 in observance of the Eid al-Adha holiday. On Monday Sept.28, Egyptian banks will...
View ArticleHungary reopens main border crossing to Serbia
ATHENS, Greece: The latest developments as European governments rush to cope with the huge number of people moving across Europe. All times local: 1:10 p.m. Hungary has reopened its main border...
View ArticleOldest Egyptian leather manuscript discovered in Egyptian Museum
CAIRO: A 4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian leather illuminated manuscript containing incantations and colorful figures of supernatural beings has been discovered at the Egyptian Museum. The manuscript,...
View ArticleSODIC wins Cityscape Built Mixed Use Project Award for SODIC West
CAIRO: SODIC won Cityscape’s Built Mixed Use Project Award for Real Estate in Egypt for the year 2015. The company took the top prize in the built mixed use project category for SODIC West, the...
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Al-Azhar, Sisi warn against threats to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque
CAIRO: Azhar’s Islamic Research Academy warned against threats by Jewish extremists to raid Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, saying that repeated Israeli violations against the holy mosque would trigger...
View ArticleEgypt’s pound steady at FX auction, exchange bureaux
CAIRO: The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) kept the pound steady at 7.73 per dollar in a foreign exchange (FX) auction on Sunday, unchanged from last sale, the bank posted on its website. “The bank offered...
View ArticleMore than 100 would-be migrants detained at Egyptian border
CAIRO: A total of 101 unregistered migrants, including five Sudanese, were arrested Sunday by Egyptian border forces, Youm7 reported. The migrants were arrested in a military area near the border...
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Driving under the influence re-surges in Egypt
CAIRO: Some 1,833 out of 9,000 drivers on Egypt’s high ways tested positive in random drug tests administered in July and August, Director of Anti-Addiction Fund Amr Othman told The Cairo Post Sunday....
View Article1.3M EGP robbed from Metrotec, Delta Construction in 10th of Ramadan
CAIRO: A total of 1.3 million EGP ($166,000) were robbed by gunmen in 10th of Ramadan City when staff in two corporate vehicles were held up at gunpoint after they had withdrawn the funds from Al-Ahly...
View ArticleEGX loses ground on local, foreign sales, benchmark down 0.45%
CAIRO: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) ended on a moderate decline at the close of Sunday’s session, hurt by local and foreign sales. The benchmark index EGX30 fell by 0.45 percent to record 7,234 points...
View ArticleBomb goes off in Giza district of Mohandiseen
CAIRO: A bomb went off Sunday in Ahmed Orabi Street in the up-scale district of Mohandiseen in Giza, Youm7 reported. Civil Protection and Squad bomb forces have headed to the blast site. A security...
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