CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt and Iran agreed on Sunday to resume direct flights between their capitals, three decades after the two nations severed diplomatic relations, an AFP correspondent said.
Egypt's minister of civil aviation Ahmed Shafiq and Iranian vice president and tourism chief Hamid Baghai oversaw the signing of a memorandum of understanding between Sameh Hefni, who heads Egypt's civil [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - Dozens of Egyptian Muslims gathered outside a Cairo mosque on Friday to protest against a senior Coptic Christian bishop who cast doubt on the authenticity of some verses of the Koran.
Around 150 men gathered outside the Al-Fath mosque in central Cairo after Friday prayers calling for an Islamic state and condemning statements by Bishop Bishoy, a security official told AFP.
"They [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - An Egyptian engineer who successfully sued the state over a land sale to property firm founded by a controversial ruling party politician is vowing to fight a government decision to bypass the court judgement.
Hamdi al-Fakharani accuses ministers of circumventing the law by signing a new deal for the sale of the land outside Cairo to the firm of billionaire real estate mogul Hisha [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - Egyptian mogul Hisham Talaat Moustafa was jailed on Tuesday for 15 years for the murder of a Lebanese pop diva and ex-lover, more than a year after he was sentenced to death, state television reported.
"Hisham Talaat Moustafa was sentenced to 15 years in jail and (his associate Mohsen) al-Sukkari to 25 years for the murder of Suzanne Tamim," the report said.
The pair had been sen [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - Sunni Islam's top religious body on Saturday slammed comments by an Egyptian Coptic bishop who cast doubt on the authenticity of some verses of the Koran, saying his remarks threatened national unity.
Al-Azhar's Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayyeb chaired an extraordinary meeting of the institution's Islamic Research Centre to discuss statements last week by Bishop Bishoy, who said [...]
EL-ARISH, Egypt (AFP) - Egyptian authorities on Friday released a top official of the Palestinian Hamas group who had been held for almost two weeks, an Egyptian security official told AFP.
Mohammed Khamis Dababesh, believed to be the head of the Hamas general security service, was arrested in Cairo on his arrival from Damascus earlier this month, a move slammed by the group as "extremely dange [...]
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