A U.S.-based human rights group pressed Egypt on Friday to release a prominent Muslim Brotherhood activist, blogger and journalist, calling his detention a blow to free speech.
Students at New Egypt High School today stood up and marched out of their chemistry, math and history classes. At 1 p.m., just after last period had begun, almost all 548 students at the school participated in a planned walk-out to protest the defeat of the school budget in this week's election. They walked out of the school building and onto the football field, where several students addressed ...
The pyramids of Giza have been removed from an Internet competition to name the new seven wonders of the world, but the anger of Egypt's antiquities chief remained unmollified on Thursday.
Source: Reuters CAIRO, April 20 (Reuters) - A U.S.-based human rights group pressed Egypt on Friday to release a prominent Muslim Brotherhood activist, blogger and journalist, calling his detention a blow to free ...
CAIRO -- Egypt could be heading toward a major standoff between sugarcane farmers and the government over outstanding debts.
(JTA)nThe Arab League appointed Egypt and Jordan to hold talks with Israel on a Saudi initiative for regional peace.
Egypt on Thursday strongly condemned the wave of bombings that claimed nearly 200 lives in Iraq, expressing bafflement over the large-scale killing of civilians.
CAIRO -- The referendum held in Egypt last month, when Egyptians went to the polls to vote on changes to the constitution - which include sweeping new police security powers - is still being vociferously debated in the country.
Egypt on Thursday urged the permanent members of the UN Security Council not to impose new sanctions on Sudan over the crisis in the western Darfur region, calling instead for more negotiations.
DUBAI, UAE, April 19, 2007 -- The Dow Chemical Company, the world’s leading science and technology company, opened a new polyurethane systems market development and prototyping laboratory in Egypt.