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Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani announced that the Joint High Committee between Iraq and Egypt has resulted in the signing of 11 memoranda of cooperation between the two countries. During a joint press conference held with his Egyptian counterpart, Mostafa Madbouly, in the Egyptian capital, Al-Sudani stated that the committee’s …

The Arab League has reportedly granted Syria a conditional return to the 22-member body with immediate effect. The decision was made by Arab foreign ministers during a closed-door meeting in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Sunday, media reports said. An Egyptian diplomat told the Abu Dhabi-based The National newspaper that …

Iraq’s Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halboosi met, at the Ittihadiya Palace in Cairo, on Sunday, with the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. At the beginning of the meeting, congratulations were exchanged between His Excellency and the Egyptian President on the occasion of the holy month of …

Syria’s foreign minister met his Egyptian counterpart in Cairo on Saturday, the first such visit in more than a decade and the latest sign of Arab states mending ties with President Bashar al-Assad. Faisal Mekdad was embraced by Sameh Shoukry as he arrived at the Egyptian foreign ministry, the first …

Egyptologists have uncovered a Pharaonic tomb near the capital Cairo containing what may be the oldest and “most complete” mummy yet to be discovered in the country, the excavation team leader said on Thursday. The 4,300-year-old mummy was found at the bottom of a 15-meter shaft in a recently uncovered …

An ancient sarcophagus was returned to Egypt from a museum in the US after authorities determined it was looted. The nearly three meters (9.5ft) tall sarcophagus was housed at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences, Texas until Egyptian authorities sought it back as part of government efforts to stop the …

Egypt unveiled Monday a sarcophagus of a senior royal official from over 3,200 years ago at the Saqqara archaeological site south of Cairo, the latest in a series of spectacular discoveries in the area. A team of Egyptian archaeologists from Cairo University found the red granite sarcophagus of Ptah-em-uya, “a …

New evidence about the Nile bolsters a long-standing theory of how ancient Egyptians managed to build the massive pyramids of Giza thousands of years ago. Researchers led by geographer Hader Sheisha at Aix-Marseille University in France used paleoecological clues to help reconstruct what Egypt’s Nile river might have looked like …

Hundreds gather to pay their respects in and around two Giza churches where clergymen prayed for the victims.

66 people died in the 2016 crash, which Egyptian authorities initially blamed on terrorism. The 2016 crash of EgyptAir flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo, which Egyptian authorities initially described as an act of terrorism, was caused by a pilot smoking a cigarette, an investigation has found. The jet disappeared …

Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, arrived in Cairo on Thursday for the first time in 15 years, hoping to promote tolerance and cement bilateral ties. The visit is part of the royal couple’s first tour since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. It is also their first visit …

At least 19 people were killed as a truck collided with a passenger microbus near the Egyptian capital Cairo, Egypt’s state-run Al-Ahram news website reported on Wednesday. The accident took place on a ring road on the outskirts of Cairo towards the 6th of October city, where security and traffic …

Egypt has announced plans to provide more than 60 million people in rural areas with high-speed internet as part of a nationwide effort to develop the digital economy and drive job creation. “We want to improve internet connectivity for 60 million Egyptians living in around 4,500 villages by upgrading broadband …

Just outside a new capital in the desert east of Cairo, the Egyptian government has been racing to ready new homes for thousands of mid-level civil servants who are expected to move to the city. Egypt turned to private developers to build pricier residential districts within the grandiose new capital, …

Several prominent Egyptian activists and journalists were released from custody on Sunday following months of detention on charges including joining or aiding a terrorist group and spreading false news, lawyers representing them said. Egyptian authorities have in recent months released detainees ahead of major Muslim holidays. Sunday’s releases come two …

Egypt’s highest civilian court has upheld the designation of a group of 13 people, including two prominent activists, as terrorists. The Court of Cassation on Wednesday rejected an appeal by the 13 people against their inclusion on a terrorist list for a period of five years. The group includes activists …

Egypt’s highest appeals court on Sunday upheld the sentencing of 10 leaders of Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, including the group’s head, to life imprisonment, the state-owned MENA news agency reported. In 2019, a Cairo criminal court found all 10, including the group’s Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie, guilty of charges related …

Cairo has said it will allow travelers to visit the country without providing a negative PCR test, as long as they have been inoculated with vaccines approved by the World Health Organization and the Egyptian Medicines Authority.

Two people were killed and six others injured on Monday in a train-bus collision in Helwan City of Egypt near the capital Cairo, the Egyptian Health Ministry said in a statement.

Egyptian doctors have expressed anger in recent days, accusing the authorities of neglecting them and failing to protect and provide them with the protective equipment they need. In response, media outlets close to the government accused the doctors of treason, not sacrificing for the sake of the nation and even …