Police charged with torturing colleague to death
CAIRO: Ten Egyptian police conscripts have been charged with torturing and beating to death a colleague and then trying to cover up the alleged murder as a suicide, a security…
40 dead, 100 missing after migrant boat sinks off Libya
CAIRO: At least 40 people drowned and around 100 are missing after a boat carrying illegal immigrants from Libya to Italy capsized, an Egyptian security official said on Monday.Forty bodies…
Hamas, Israel agree on truce to begin Thursday, says MENA
CAIRO: Egypt s state-owned news agency says Hamas and Israel have agreed on a truce which is to begin on Thursday.The MENA agency cites an unnamed high-level Egyptian official as…
US delegation trains Egyptian border guards on 'counter-tunneling'
RAFAH, Egypt: An Egyptian security official says that a US military delegation is setting up tunnel detection equipment to counter smuggling on the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip.The delegation,…
Police in search of American tourist with footage "marring Egypt's image"
CAIRO: State Security Investigations began a search for American tourist Suzan Tamood Dong for allegedly possessing a documentary film containing footage marring Egypt's image and inflaming sectarian tensions, sources told…
Amended anti-monopoly law a disappointment, says ECA chair
CAIRO: Monopolistic business practices will now be fined between LE 100 million and LE 300 million, according to the amended version of the anti-monopoly law passed by the People's Assembly…
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Talaat Moustafa has $1.1 bln sales to JuneReuters reported that Talaat Moustafa Group said its sales so far this year were worth more than LE 6 billion ($1.1 billion) and…
Vodafone numbers drop as mobile subscribers make the switch
CAIRO: Two months after launching Egypt's mobile number portability (MNP) service, the number of subscribers who switched networks constitutes 0.02 percent of total mobile subscribers, said telecom experts.MobiNil has so…
Egyptian filmmaker Chahine in 'very critical condition': embassy
PARIS: Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine was listed in very critical condition in a French hospital on Tuesday, a day after he was flown to Paris after suffering a brain hemorrhage,…