Death toll in Egypt’s scorching heat wave rises to over 60
CAIRO: Egypt’s state news agency says 21 more people have died due to a scorching heat wave, raising this week’s death toll to more than 60. The official MENA news agency said Wednesday that the latest...
View ArticleUpdate: Islamic State Egypt affiliate behead Croatian hostage
CAIRO: Islamic State’s Egypt-affiliate, Sinai Province, published a still photo of the beheaded body of a Croatian hostage the group had threatened to kill last week, the SITE monitoring service said...
View ArticleWith Kurdish militant leader sidelined, Turkey risks deeper violence
ANKARA: Sidelined on his island prison, the one man who might have helped quell a surge in violence in Turkey’s Kurdish southeast appears increasingly powerless as a three-year-old peace process...
View ArticleEgypt mulls to announce extreme heat days as public holidays
CAIRO: Egypt’s Ministry of Manpower is currently mulling to set days of very high temperature as public holidays after at least 70 people died of the current blistering heat wave. Manpower Minister...
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Agriculture sector employees over 25% of Egypt’s working children: CAPMAS
CAIRO: The agriculture sector employees 27.4 percent of working children in Upper Egypt governorates compared to 26.4 percent in the country’s Delta governorates, the Central Agency for Public...
View ArticlePolice brutality video at metro station circulated
CAIRO: A video, showing policemen brutally beating a man at a Cairo metro station, has gone viral on social media Wednesday; the incident was referred to investigations per Interior Ministry order. In...
View ArticleUN social media campaign shows humanitarians in conflict
UNITED NATIONS: Tennis star Maria Sharapova, British mogul Richard Branson and Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai have signed up. So have actor Ashley Judd, Colombian singer Juanes and Brazilian...
View Article85 Labor protest cases reported so far in 2015: minister
CAIRO: A total of 85 labor protest cases have been reported across Egypt so far in 2015, compared to 287 cases in 2014, Manpower Minister Nahed Ashry was quoted by Youm7 Tuesday. Most of the 2015 labor...
View Article5 Rights groups to establish ‘National Observatory for Electoral Integrity’
CAIRO: Five rights organizations are to establish the National Observatory for the Electoral Integrity to monitor Egypt’s upcoming parliamentary elections, Youm7 reported Wednesday. The observatory...
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History of the Islamic State group as Croat killed in Egypt
CAIRO: An online image released Wednesday purported to show the Islamic State affiliate in Egypt had beheaded a Croatian hostage. Here’s a look at the Islamic State group’s birth, its atrocities and...
View ArticleEgypt eyes underwater equipments deal with Russia: paper
CAIRO: Egypt and India consider purchasing underwater equipments and diving system from Russia’s TETIS PRO, General Director of the company Alexei Kaifadzhyan told Ria Novosti newspaper Wednesday....
View ArticleEgypt’s Talaat Mostafa first-half profit rises 12%
CAIRO: Egyptian developer Talaat Mostafa Group Holding Co Sae reported a 12 percent year-on-year rise in first half net profit after taxes and minority rights, the company said in a statement on...
View ArticleEgypt’s EFG Hermes reports Q2 profit of $22.67 million
CAIRO: Egypt’s EFG Hermes reported second-quarter net profit of 177.487 million Egyptian pounds ($22.67 million), down from 220.531 million in the previous year, the company said in a statement on...
View ArticleRehydration solution sachets, blamed for children deaths seized in Alexandria
CAIRO: Thousands of oral rehydration solution sachets, similar to those blamed for the recent death of at least eight children, were reportedly seized Tuesday in pharmacies in Egypt’s Mediterranean...
View ArticleEGX slumps over foreign institutions’ sales, benchmark down 2.1%
CAIRO: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) plunged at the close of Wednesday’s session, hammered by foreign institutions’ sell-offs. The benchmark index EGX30 tumbled 2.12 percent to end at 7,912 points, down...
View ArticleSchool headmaster under investigation over wearing jellabiya
CAIRO: A school headmaster in Egypt’s Delta governorate of Sharqia was referred to investigations Tuesday over wearing a jellabiya (traditional Egyptian garment,) while at the school, Youm7 reported....
View Article14 currency exchange seized over Brotherhood affiliation
CAIRO: A total of 14 currency exchange companies, reportedly owned by members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group, have been seized by the police per an order by the Central Bank of Egypt...
View ArticleAl-Azhar slams beheading of Croatian citizen in North Sinai
CAIRO: The killing of a Croatian citizen at the hands of Egypt’s Islamic State affiliated in North Sinai is “vile and criminal,” Al-Azhar said Wednesday, strongly denouncing the beheading of Tomislav...
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