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Egypt is in its stomach with over 15 million stray dogs. A special government committee must tackle the growing problem, but fears for the fate of the animals. The Minister of...

Due to a train accident and a fire in the central station of the Egyptian capital Cairo, according to the local authorities, at least 24 people were killed and fifty wounded.

The Egyptian TV presenter Mohamed al-Ghiety has been sentenced to a year of punishment in Giza. The star had dared to question a homosexual on TV. The media watchdog also has the show...

A bomb expert from the Egyptian police died on Saturday during the dismantling of an explosive. That was according to state television placed at a church in the east of Cairo. Two…

Egyptian security forces have killed 40 militants during two separate operations after an attack with a roadside bomb Friday on a tourist bus at Cairo. In addition, four people came...

A bus with tourists has been detonated near Cairo.

Egyptians must go off as the weeping weather. To this end, President Abdul Fatah called al-Sisi. Moreover, it must be done with fat people on TV.

She was detained for four months in Egypt because her father's father was unknown, but finally teenage mother Britt van Baarlen can go home. Minister Blok, on whom all hope was in September...

Just south of the Egyptian capital Cairo is the nearly 4,500-year-old tomb of a priest. The tomb is 'exceptionally well preserved' and is therefore already a unique...

Italian prosecutors will investigate five members of Egyptian security units for their alleged involvement in the disappearance of the student Giulio Regeni.

At least seven people were killed in Egypt by an attack on a bus. Fourteen others were injured. The bus was on its way to a Coptic monastery in Minya in Upper Egypt.

The coalition led by Saudi Arabia has carried out a bombing of air force targets at the international airport of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. The rocket attack was mainly focused on a launch site of drones and ballistic missiles, said a coalition spokesperson on al-Ekhbaria TV.

An Egyptian court ordered the arrest of two sons of the Egyptian former president Hosni Mubarak. Justice suspects Alaa and Gamal Mubarak of insider trading on the stock exchange.

An Egyptian court sentenced 75 people to the death penalty for their involvement in an action in 2013 for the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. Among the convicts are the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood Essam al-Erian and Mohamed Beltag. The prominent Islamist clergyman Safwat Higazi also awaits the death penalty, reported legal sources in Cairo.

The Egyptian authorities have arrested a man who threw an explosive at the US embassy in Cairo. That means sources within the security services against Reuters news agency. There are no reports about victims.

A team of French and Egyptian archaeologists has excavated the oldest village so far found in the Egyptian Nile Delta. The excavations were done at Tell El-Samara and come from the Neolithic period. The archaeologists have found objects made between 4200 and 2900 BC.

Arab football directors, already not known for their clean hands, have been making a lot of fur lately. For example, an Egyptian bobo is threatening the mother of the country's best player, the Palestinian federation president calls for an 'iconoclasm' against Lionel Messi and in Iraq they wear mature players to shave well so that they can join a youth team.

Scientists have probably found the oldest cheese in the world in an Egyptian tomb from the thirteenth century BC. The tomb of Ptahmes, mayor of Memphis thousands of years ago, was excavated in 1885 but disappeared again under sandstorms. The rediscovery followed in 2010.

The army rules in Egypt. That is nothing new, but the institute has gained unprecedented power under President Al-Sisi. For example, parliament recently adopted a law that in many cases places military personnel above the law.

Egyptian security officials have foiled a bomb attack on a church just outside of Cairo. The state television has announced this on Saturday. A suicide bomber was on his way to the prayer house in Qalyubiyah with a vest full of explosives. When he was stopped at about 250 meters in front of the entrance, he blew himself up. There were no other victims.

The warring parties in South Sudan signed a peace agreement on Sunday. This is what Al-Dirdiri Mohamed, the foreign minister of neighboring Sudan, announced. Mohamed has mediated between the parties. In the African country, a bloody civil war raged over the past five years.

Egypt claims that military and security personnel have killed 52 militants in Sinai in recent days. The army said in a statement that more than thirty vehicles with weapons and ammunition of the Islamist fighters were destroyed.

A Czech tourist was attacked by a shark on the coast of Egypt and died. The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported to the news site Echo that the 41-year-old man was diving at the Marsa Alam tourist resort on the Red Sea. That place in the south of Egypt is popular with divers and snorkelers.

There has been a heavy explosion near or at the airport of the Egyptian capital Cairo. A large plume of smoke can be seen on photo 's that have been distributed via Twitter.

The French Air Safety Investigation Board casts doubt on Egypt's conclusions about the incident of the air crash with EgyptAir's aircraft in 2016. According to the research council (BEA), a fire has most likely caused the Airbus to be taken on board in the Mediterranean with 66 people. collapsed.

Hudayfah al-Badri, a son of the ideological leader of the Sunni extremists of Islamic State (IS) Abu Bakr al-Baghadi, was killed according to a news channel from IS. 'Al-Badri, the son of the caliph' was killed in fighting in the Syrian city of Homs in the power plant with the alawites and the Russians, according to the report.

The Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was sworn in for a second term in the Egyptian parliament on Saturday. Al-Sisi won in March the presidential election in his country with 97 percent of the vote.

Egypt has been banned for a month in a professional video website YouTube because it showed a film that would be insulting to Muslims. The Egyptian telecom authorities must ensure that YouTube is blocked.

The Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has opened the border crossing of Egypt with Gaza at Rafah on Thursday for the entire period during Ramadan. He reported this via his official Twitter account.

During the confrontations between the Egyptian army and Islamic militants in Sinai in recent days, nineteen militants have been killed and twenty others have been arrested, the army reports on Thursday. This brings the total number of deaths since the beginning of the military operation to 296, of whom 35 soldiers.