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Cairo has announced that it is taking tougher decisions against Qatar due to the Emirate’s stubbornness to comply with the demands submitted by the Saudi-led boycotting bloc. Spokesman for the Egyptian foreign ministry Ahmed Abu Zeid highlighted that continuing to give “privileges” to Qatar and its nationals “in light of its current positions” is contradictory […]
A military checkpoint in the village of el-Barth, an area between Rafah and Sheikh Zuweid in the northeastern Sinai Peninsula, was attacked by an unidentified group in the early hours of Friday and few hours later, Egypt’s Interior Ministry said a police officer was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Cairo as he was […]
Egyptian officials have pointed fingers at Qatar for supporting terrorism during a U.N. session on Tuesday, held at the initiative of Egypt and chaired by Egypt’s Permanent Representative Amr Aboul Atta. During the session, a list enumerating Qatar’s violations of the UN arms embargo on Libya was circulated with allegations that Doha is a key […]
As Egypt’s fiscal year for 2017-2018 will be commencing on July 1, the Finance Ministry has announced that a “social package” aimed at easing the pain of the ongoing austerity measures will be included in the budget. More than 90% of the citizens will benefit from the package through food subsidies, tax breaks and increment […]
Egypt’s highest administrative court Tuesday issued a new verdict opposing Egyptian parliament’s approval of government decision to surrender Tiran and Sanafir islands in the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia. The Tuesday ruling is the second by the court. The court, the highest judicial entity to settle administrative disputes, last year ruled against the Egyptian government’s […]
A criminal court in the Egyptian capital Monday pressed a ten-year condemnation against First Lt. Yaseen Hatem accused in 2015 for killing political activist Shaimaa Al-Sabbagh on the fourth anniversary of the Egyptian 2011 revolution. The Monday ruling is the second verdict on the case after another court condemned the officer to 15 years in […]
Millions of commuters across Egypt will benefit from a €290 million financing provided by the EBRD to support the Egyptian National Railways (ENR) in its fleet expansion and upgrade of services. As part of ENR’s locomotive renewal program, the EBRD will finance the acquisition of up to 100 new diesel locomotives under a supply-and-maintenance contract […]
The Egyptian parliament Sunday convened for a two-day session to review the controversial 2016 agreement regarding the handing over of the islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia, despite a ruling in January by the High Administrative Court that said the agreement is unconstitutional and void. The ruling upheld the verdict of a lower […]
Gaza Strip ruler Hamas Friday vigorously slammed the UN agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), which complained with the Islamist movement the discovery of a tunnel under an UN-built school in Gaza. UNRWA discovered on June 1 “part of a tunnel that passes under two adjacent agency schools in the Maghazi camp” during construction work, spokesman […]
Egypt Thursday called for an UN Security Council inquiry into accusations that Qatar allegedly paid around $1 billion as ransom to a terrorist group in Iraq to secure the release of 26 Qatari hostages, including members of the royal family, egyptindependent.com reports. Egypt’s call came on the backdrop of the rift in relations between Qatar […]