Children's hotline morphs into family advice service
CAIRO: The National Council for Childhood and Motherhood's (NCCM) hotline for children has been getting hundreds of phone calls, most of them unrelated to the purpose of the hotline, according…
Official denied Upper Egypt blackout reports
CAIRO: Mahmoud Awad, head of Egypt's Electricity Holding Company, denied reports that the lack of regular maintenance to a major electricity line has led to a blackout in a number…
Three new H1N1 cases appear in Egypt
CAIRO: The Ministry of Health reported three new H1N1 cases Saturday, raising Egypt's total to 120, of which 101 have fully recovered.According to the ministry's official statement, one Egyptian and…
MP questions return of 500,000 Egyptian workers from Libya
CAIRO: Muslim Brotherhood MP Saber Aboul Fotouh, filed a questioning at the PA to investigate the Libyan authorities' decision to let go of 500,000 Egyptian workers without prior notice or…
Court acquits civil servant on charges of insulting president
CAIRO: Minya teacher and poet Mounir Said Hanna Marzuq was acquitted Saturday on charges of insulting the president, according to a release by the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information…
Protesting legal specialist dies, triggering escalations
CAIRO: Protests escalated in front of the Ministry of Justice Sunday after one of the protesting legal specialists died of a heart attack the day before. Wahid Desouky Emam, vice…
US embassy video conference discusses blogging in the US
CAIRO: The old media world is in decline, shifting, losing prominence, said Peter Leyden, founder and CEO of NextAgenda.com, at a video conference at the United States embassy in Cairo…