U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday called his Egyptian counterpart, Mohamed Morsi, to express his "deep concern" about the deaths and injuries ensuing from protests over expanded presidential power and a draft constitution in the Arab country.
President Mohamed Morsy Saturday 01/12/2012 receives the final draft constitution from Counselor Hossam Al Gheryany, the head of the Constituent Assembly for writing the Egyptian national charter with the CA members attending.
Foreign Minister Mohamed Amr has concluded a visit to Germany, where he attended the second round of the joint Egyptian-German committee, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday 30/11/2012.
Activists in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula are set to hold a million-man march to express their solidarity with the Palestinians, saying that they want to enter the neighboring Gaza Strip in a show of support.
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi paid his deep consolations Saturday for the victims' families of the train-school bus crash, which resulted in more than 50 people killed and 17 injured, promising to punish those responsible for the accident.
Representatives of Orthodox Church, a main branch of Egyptian Coptics, have withdrew from the Constitutional Assembly (CA) tasked with writing a new constitution for Egypt over disagreement with Islamic members in the assembly, official Ahram online reported Saturday.
A truck collided with a microbus in Sixth of October City, 32 km from Egypt's capital Cairo, Saturday afternoon, leaving 12 killed and several others injured, the official Ahram online reported.
Egyptian Minister of Transportation Mohamed Rashad el-Matini submitted resignation to President Mohamed Morsi over the collision between a train and a school bus which killed at least 40 children on Saturday morning, official news agency MENA reported.
A court in the Egyptian capital city, Cairo, is set to hear a lawsuit for the revocation of the US citizenship of two of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s children.
Egyptian security forces arrested Thursday a Jihadist leader accused of implementing terrorist operations in Arish, the capital city of North Sinai Governorate.
Egypt will apply new closing time for shops starting on Dec. 1 with one month as a transitional period, Ahmed al-Wakil, chief of the general unions of the commerce chamber said on Monday.
Members of the drafting committee of the Constituent Assembly (CA) have agreed on 21/10/2012 to reconsider the first draft constitution in full and to put into account the suggestions made by political powers.
Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr said that the Foreign Ministry is one of the national security institutions and the first defense line for Egyptian interests.
