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  Egypt's presidential frontrunner Sisi cautious on energy subsidies

  Former Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who is expected to win a presidential election this month, said in a television interview broadcast on Tuesday that costly energy subsidies could not be lifted quickly.   Read More
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  Egypt's president inaugurates new metro line

  Egyptian interim President Adly Mansour inaugurated on Wednesday morning the second phase of Cairo's new underground line, national television reported.   Read More
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  Egypt's Sisi said "time was up" months before Mursi's ouster

  Former Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in remarks broadcast on Tuesday that he had determined there was no way out of a political crisis three months before he ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi last July.   Read More
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  UPDATE | Court bans NDP leaders from running for parliament

  The disbanded NDP had dominated Egyptian politics since it was founded by Mubarak's predecessor, Anwar Sadat, in 1978.   Read More
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  Egypt's Sisi says Muslim Brotherhood is finished

  Egyptian presidential frontrunner Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday appeared to rule out reconciliation with the Muslim Brotherhood movement, raising the spectre of a prolonged conflict with a group he said was finished.   Read More
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  BREAKING | Egypt court bans NDP leaders from running for parliament

  CAIRO, May 5 (Aswat Masriya) The Cairo Court for Urgent Matters banned leaders of the dissolved National Democratic Party from running for parliament, municipalities council and presidency in a ruling it issued on Tuesday.   Read More

Latest Analyses

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  FEATURE l Egypt on steady course of self-destruction

  If there is a sure way to bring down the Egyptian state, it is not by attacking police stations or throwing Molotov cocktails at the presidential palace. It is by making sure that people lose whatever respect and confidence they still have in one of the main pillars of the regime, namely the judiciary.   Read More

  
  
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  In Cairo, one family's story shows rise of radical threat

  Fahmy Abdel Raouf and his 13-year old son had been missing for months when their family got word they had been killed in a gun battle with security forces and hailed as "martyrs" by the most dangerous militant group in Egypt.   Read More

  
  
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  Serendipity aids Egypt in struggle to recover stolen heritage

  When French Egyptologist Olivier Perdu saw a fragment of a pharaonic statue on display in a Brussels gallery last year, he assumed it was a twin of an ancient masterpiece he had examined in Egypt a quarter of a century earlier.   Read More

  
  
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  Animal rights activists accuse shelter of negligence and deception

  A group of animal rights activists in Egypt has accused a shelter in Saqqara of letting dogs and cats starve and freeze to death.   Read More

  
  
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  Egypt woman professor targets young in bid to save Brotherhood

  In her spare time, the 47-year-old veiled academic is trying to save the Muslim Brotherhood, the outlawed group that Egypt's army-backed authorities brand a "terrorist group", by ensuring it remains committed to peaceful change and rejects violence.   Read More