CAIRO (AFP) - The Muslim Brotherhood's political party, set up to run in polls, was declared legal in Egypt on Monday, state news agency MENA said, for the first time since the movement was founded eight decades ago.
"The commission on party affairs has given its approval for the formation of the Freedom and Justice Party," it said.
The Muslim Brotherhood was officially illegal but [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - The International Monetary Fund has granted Egypt a loan of three billion dollars over 12 months to help put its economy back on track, Finance Minister Samir Radwan announced on Sunday.
"Egypt announces the end of negotiations with the IMF and the clinching of an agreement with the fund to relaunch the Egyptian economy," Radwan told reporters.
The two parties agreed [...]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Egyptian officials at the border with Gaza restricted Palestinian use of the Rafah crossing on Saturday, Hamas police told AFP.
A security source in Egypt initially said the crossing was closed for works which should have been completed on Friday and efforts were underway to allow through Palestinian buses.
Egyptian security and state tele [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - Ten people were injured in an attack on a police station in central Cairo after a bus driver was killed, Egypt's health ministry said on Saturday.
"Most of the injuries were superficial," following the attack on Friday during which police fired tear gas at stone-throwing protesters and one of their vehicles was set ablaze, ministry official Abdelhamid Abaza said in a s [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt's public prosecutor on Saturday referred 48 people to trial for their involvement in deadly Muslim-Christian clashes last month.
The 48 accused were referred to Cairo's supreme state security court for "premeditated murder, harming public security, inciting sectarian tension, burning a church and possessing weapons with the purpose of carrying out terror (acts)," [...]
CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) - Former Egyptian finance minister Yussef Boutros Ghali was on Saturday sentenced to 30 years in prison in absentia on corruption charges, an AFP correspondent said.
Judge Magdi Ghoneim of the Cairo criminal court sentenced Ghali to 15 years for squandering public money by using cars held in customs and 15 years for abusing his position for personal gain from mini [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - Military prosecutors questioned a newspaper editor and a journalist on Friday over a report alleging Egypt's military would back an Islamist group in elections, a source said.
The editor of the Wafd party's newspaper and the journalist who wrote the story may be punished for publishing false news if they are unable to back the report, the military source said.
The all [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt's military was feted for its stand during the revolt that ousted president Hosni Mubarak. But when a general recounted its role to over 1,000 young people, several in the crowd showed they were in no mood to accept any boasting.
"What would have happened if the military, when it went to the streets, did not take the right decision?" asked the general at Wednesday [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt on Wednesday lifted the minimum monthly wage to 700 pounds (117.8 dollars) in the country where regime-changing protests were partly fuelled by economic woes earlier in the year.
Finance Minister Samir Radwan made the announcement at a news conference, without saying when it would come into force.
He pledged the pay rate would "be gradually raised to 1,200 pounds with [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a group of Egyptians on Wednesday that he wanted to see an "anti-Zionist and anti-arrogance" Egypt.
"We must see to it that Iran and Egypt are two developed, powerful countries, anti-arrogance (Iran's shorthand for the West) and anti-Zionist," the official news agency Irna quoted the president as telling a group of Egyptian in [...]
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