Egypt

Elections Commission: High turnout in first round of polls

Elections Commission: High turnout in first round of polls

Sixty-two percent of registered voters in the first round of the Egyptian parliamentary elections took to the polls on Monday…
Redeeming popularity: SCAF prides itself for successful election

Redeeming popularity: SCAF prides itself for successful election

  Egypt’s first post-Hosni Mubarak parliamentary race kicked off this week amid jubilation over the high turnout and the relative…
Abbasseya demonstrators show support for SCAF and Ganzouri

Abbasseya demonstrators show support for SCAF and Ganzouri

Hundreds of Egyptians demonstrated in the Cairo neighborhood of Abbasseya on Friday in support of the ruling Supreme Council of…
SCAF: Egypt has refused foreign aid with political strings attached

SCAF: Egypt has refused foreign aid with political strings attached

Egypt has refused financial aid offers from the Gulf and other foreign countries because political conditions have been attached, member…
State TV: Election results will be announced at 8 pm

State TV: Election results will be announced at 8 pm

Results of the first round of parliamentary elections will be announced at 8 pm Friday night, Egyptian state TV reported…
Araby: Syrian regime can still avoid foreign intervention

Araby: Syrian regime can still avoid foreign intervention

The Syrian regime still has an opportunity to overcome its current crisis if it signs an Arab League protocol allowing…
Sharaf’s social justice minister to hold office in Ganzouri cabinet

Sharaf’s social justice minister to hold office in Ganzouri cabinet

Gouda Abdel Khaleq, who served as the solidarity and social justice minister in former Prime Minister Essam Sharaf's cabinet, said…
Upper Egypt train service resumes following Thursday protest

Upper Egypt train service resumes following Thursday protest

Trains traveling through Upper Egypt returned to their normal schedules on Friday after demonstrators blocked railroad tracks the day before…
Protesters head to Tahrir to honor martyrs of Mohamed Mahmoud

Protesters head to Tahrir to honor martyrs of Mohamed Mahmoud

Hundreds of protesters marched from Mostafa Mahmoud mosque in the Mohandiseen neighborhood of Cairo to Tahrir Square Friday afternoon, to…
Sharaf officially announces cabinet resignation

Sharaf officially announces cabinet resignation

Prime Minister Essam Sharaf officially announced the resignation of his cabinet in a press statement issued Thursday. "The members of…
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