Zawahiri calls for strike against US, Israel
CAIRO: The “liberation of Jerusalem” requires beating the west “in their own backyard” and hitting the economy to show the “price of support for crimes by Israel against Muslims and Islam,” said...
View ArticleRussian jet broke up in mid air, too early for conclusions, official says
CAIRO/MOSCOW: A Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula broke up in mid-air, an official of a Moscow-based aviation agency said on Sunday after visiting the disaster site, but stressed...
View ArticleSouth Korea, Japan leaders to seek early resolution of ‘comfort women’ dispute
SEOUL: South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed on Monday to try to resolve as soon as possible a row over “comfort women” forced into prostitution in Japanese...
View ArticleIran says implementation of nuclear deal has started: Kyodo
DUBAI: Iran has begun preliminary implementation of the nuclear deal struck with six world powers in July, Tehran’s nuclear chief was quoted as saying on Monday by Japan’s Kyodo news agency. “We have...
View ArticleSearch for Russian plane debris continues into 3rd day
CAIRO: Technical experts and civil protection forces continue Monday their search for the rest of the crashed Russian plane debris in center of Sinai Peninsula for the third day in a row, Youm7...
View ArticleVIDEO: Kuwaiti kills Egyptian, injures 2 others
CAIRO: An Egyptian was killed and two others, including a Kuwaiti, were injured when a Kuwaiti citizen hit them with a car in Kuwaiti city of Hawally after a quarrel between them in a mall, Kuwaiti...
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Photos: Egyptians down 300K tons of Fava beans a year
CAIRO: Egyptians consume 300,000 tons of fava beans every year, the Chamber of Commerce announced Sunday. Fuul, a fava bean paste, and tammiya, fava flour dumplings are a staple Egyptian breakfast, and...
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Egypt’s Banque Misr to complete $250M 3-yr loan in Dec: chairman
CAIRO: Banque Misr expects to complete procedures next month to obtain a $250 million loan of three years duration, using it to strengthen the dollar resources of Egypt’s second-largest state lender,...
View ArticleCrashed Russian jet deemed airworthy by Irish regulators in May
DUBLIN: The Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Saturday received a certificate of airworthiness earlier this year, regulators in Ireland, where it was registered, said on...
View ArticleCentral bank raises 7.2B EGP in T-bonds Monday
CAIRO: The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) on behalf of the Ministry of Finance is set to auction 7.250 billion EGP ($654.1 million) in treasury bonds Monday, according to the bank’s official website....
View ArticleFirst bodies delivered to Russia after Egypt plane crash
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia: The first bodies from a plane crash in Egypt in which all 224 passengers, most of them Russians, died over the weekend arrived in St Petersburg early on Monday morning aboard a...
View ArticleEgypt imports 120K bottles of Hep C drugs to treat 34K patients
CAIRO: Egypt has imported a total of 120,000 bottles of hepatitis C drugs Qurevo and Daklinza to be used to treat 34,000 patients, Youm7 quoted a source at the National Committee to Combat Hepatitis...
View ArticleLufthansa, Air France ‘irresponsible’ for avoiding Sinai air: FM
CAIRO: The decision to avoid flying through Sinai airspace following a Saturday crash by Lufthansa and Air France is “irresponsible,” Foreign Minister Sameh Shokry stated in a Sunday interview with...
View ArticleBreaking: Black box shows no distress call from Russian plane
CAIRO: A preliminary investigation of the black box recovered from a Russian plane that crashed Saturday morning in the Sinai after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh shows that the crew sent no distress...
View ArticleIran starts taking nuclear centrifuges offline
DUBAI: Iran has begun decommissioning uranium enrichment centrifuges under the terms of the nuclear deal struck with six world powers in July, Tehran’s nuclear chief was quoted as saying on Monday...
View ArticleIraq parliament bars Abadi government from passing reforms unilaterally
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s parliament voted unanimously on Monday to bar the government from passing important reforms without its approval in an effort to curb Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi amid discontent over...
View ArticleSisi calls journalists ‘unaware’ after Alexandria criticism
CAIRO: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi criticized Sunday his country’s media after being slammed after rainwater inundated large areas of Alexandria where at least five people were killed in...
View ArticleEgypt’s gross domestic debt soars to 2.116T EGP in FY2014/15
CAIRO: Egypt’s gross domestic debt surged to 2.116 trillion EGP ($263.5 billion) in fiscal year 2014/2015 (ended June 30,)compared to 1.816 trillion EGP a year earlier, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE)...
View ArticleIran says to pull out of Syria talks if unconstructive, citing Saudi role: ISNA
DUBAI: Iran said on Monday it would pull out of Syria peace talks if it found them unconstructive, citing Saudi Arabia’s negative role, according to the ISNA news agency. “In the first round of talks,...
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