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CAIRO: The Journalists’ Syndicate’s Freedoms Committee condemned what it described as the politically-motivated vandalism of Al-Badil newspaper’s advertisements on public buses, the committee said in a statement. The Syndicate accused Al-Ahram Advertising Agency of deliberately sabotaging the paper’s ads that appear on public buses or covering them with black posters. In the statement, the Syndicate’s …
CAIRO: Four detained members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) said they will run in the upcoming local council elections from behind bars, according to a press statement sent to Daily News Egypt. Ahmed Ramy – also a high board member of the Pharmacists’ Syndicate – Gad Mohamed Gad, Mohamed Saad Mansour and Khaled Abdel Baky …
CAIRO: At dawn on Monday security forces arrested 65 members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Sharqeya, Kafr El-Sheikh, Sohag, Gharbeya, Giza, Qena, and Menufiya, said a Brotherhood press statement. The police official, speaking on customary condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media, confirmed Monday’s arrests. He said the …
CAIRO: Member of Parliament Aly Laban, who is affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, says a police officer threatened to arrest his office manager if Laban runs in the upcoming local council elections. Laban filed a complaint with the People’s Assembly Chairman Fathi Sorour against Ayman Shahin, a police officer in Gharbeya, accusing him of threatening …
The Cairo International Film Festival for Children is set to begin next week, but much to journalists’ dismay, the inaugural press conference was anything but festive. For some inexplicable reason, Fawzy Fahmy, the president of the children’s festival, lashed out at journalists. Held at the Higher Council for Culture to announce the opening of the …
CAIRO: The Nasser Medical Institute found itself under fire after a 40-year-old patient accused the doctors of making a “huge mistake while operating on her heart last June, claiming it had drastic effects on her health. Sabah Ahmed Aly was admitted to the institute last April where she had a cardiac catheterization which detected problems …
CAIRO: The Hisham Mubarak Law Center, an Egyptian NGO which monitors legal violations, held a mock “public trial on Sunday for steel mogul and MP Ahmed Ezz, head of the logistics committee of the ruling National Democratic Party. The trial, which lasted one hour, was staged at center’s Downtown headquarters. The trial’s panel of judges …
“I will turn the country from a desert to a green paradise, promised Shiekh Zayed Al Nahyan, the late Amir of the United Arab Emirates, and he has indeed kept his promise. Abu Dhabi, the capital and one of the UAE’s seven emirates has been transformed into a green haven over the past 15 years. …
CAIRO: The first week of March will see the trial at the Minya criminal court, of the doctor who was involved in the circumcision procedure that resulted in the tragic death of 12-year-old Bodour Shaker in Minya last June. Bodour’s death, which attracted wide media coverage, prompted the Ministry of Health to prohibit female circumcision, …
CAIRO: The Ministry of Health recently submitted a draft law to the People’s Assembly (PA) that, if passed, would prohibit nurses from wearing the niqab (full face veil) while on the job. However, the draft law will only be implemented on nurses working in public hospitals, who, according to figures of the Ministry of health …
CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood has announced its intention to field candidates in the upcoming local council elections, despite a recent spate of arrests of its members, the group announced at a press conference at its headquarters in Manial Thursday. In the press conference, which was attended by the group’s leader Mohamed Mahdy Akef, its deputy …
CAIRO: The People’s Assembly’s (PA) legislative committee passed a new draft law filed by the government forbidding demonstrations inside places of worship, Hamdy Hassan, PA member affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood told Daily News Egypt. However, Hassan believes that the new law is “against freedom of expression, adding that the Egyptian government regularly puts restrictions …
CAIRO: A new pyramid scheme scandal is causing a stir in Cairo, with the alleged perpetrator dubbed “Rayan Nasr City. The Prosecutor General s office for public funds in New Cairo refused to provide any information about the man behind the latest case of fraud to hit the city, but he is reportedly accused of …
CAIRO: The escalation of a dispute between a Cairo residential compound owner and its residents could lead to the evacuation of 500 apartments. The owner of Beit El Ezz compound, located at Ibn Al Hakam Square in Al Zaytoun, claims that the residents hadn’t paid all the money they owe for their apartments, but the …
CAIRO: In a statement to Daily News Egypt, MP Mohamed Essmat El-Sadat, vice president of the Democratic Front Party, denied newspaper reports that he was expelled from the party. El-Sadat told Daily News Egypt that there was a “complaint filed against him, by another party member [Osama Al-Ghazaly Harb, first deputy of the Democratic Front …
CAIRO: The government has proved its failure to address the Coptic issue in Egypt, and the concept of citizenship which it highlighted in recent constitutional changes is nothing but talk that is never practically implemented, Gamal Eid, director of the HRinfo, told Daily News Egypt.Eid’s was commenting on the recent complaint filed by “Voice of …
CAIRO: The Pharmacists’ Syndicate is threatening to go on strike to express its discontent with two decrees if “friendly talks with the ministry prove unsuccessful, said Syndicate Board member Ahmed Ramy. Ramy told Daily News Egypt that the Syndicate called for an “emergency meeting of its high board on Friday where around 3,000 pharmacists met …
CAIRO: Over 100 independent members of the People’s Assembly, including the Muslim Brotherhood bloc, filed a request to withdraw confidence from Minister of Finance Youssef Boutros Ghaly Sunday, Brotherhood MP Farid Ismail, told Daily News Egypt. The MPs accuse Ghaly of misappropriating LE 3 billion of social insurance and pension funds to cover up the …
CAIRO: Egypt’s national carrier EgyptAir, has arranged a special service to Ghana on Sunday Feb. 10 offering reduced fares for soccer aficionados to attend the African Cup final between Egypt and Cameroon. Ahmed Shobeir, former national team goal keeper and anchor of a football show on local Channel 2, said on Thursday that Minister of …
CAIRO: Egypt is fully enforcing all key measures to decrease the usage of tobacco among the Egyptian population, according to Dr Abdel Rahman Shahin, media spokesperson of the Ministry of Health. Shahin’s statement came in reaction to a report that was released by the World Health Organization (WHO) saying that it had “data proving that …
CAIRO: The Higher Judicial Council has rejected a request from the vice president of the Cairo Appeals Court, Hisham Al-Bastawisy, to travel to Belgium to observe a trial and a European Commission conference to which he was invited. His proposed trip would have involved attending the international trial of several Israeli soldiers accused of committing …
CAIRO: In a statement issued by Medizone International Inc., Dr Gerard Sunnen, MD, former president and director of research for Medizone, said that he had filed charges of human rights violations against the New York State Department of Health (NYSDH) on behalf of Egyptian hepatitis sufferers. The NYSDH had forced the closure of a research …
CAIRO: In an positive attempt to tackle the issue of children’s rights in Egypt, terrestrial Channel 1 has launched a new program under the name “Esma’oona or “Hear us out, which aims at raising awareness on the issue. The launch of the program, which airs every Friday at 11 am under the slogan “Hear us …
CAIRO: The Ministry of Finance has finalized a controversial draft social insurance law that the People’s Assembly (PA), the Doctors’ Syndicate and the ministry have been debating over the past year. The new law, which constitutes one chapter of the insurance law, is said to raise retirement fees to a minimum of 70 percent of …
CAIRO: The Doctors’ Syndicate General Assembly decided in a meeting on Friday to hold protests starting next week demanding a new law that would increase doctors’ salaries, according to Dr Hamdy El-Sayed, chairman of the Doctors’ Syndicate and head of the People’s Assembly’s (PA) health committee. Following the meeting, doctors staged an impromptu protest where …
From Jan. 24 until 28, Al-Ahram Publishing Organization hosted its annual automotive exhibition at the Cairo International Conference Hall, showcasing a wide variety of international automobile names, along with a look at the latest new models, displayed for the first time in Egypt. Large crowds of visitors flocked to the exhibition as soon as it …
CAIRO: A farmer was assessed by doctors after he picked up a batch of radioactive material that fell from a delivery vehicle bound for Sohag Cancer Institute, on the Cairo-Sohag Dessert Road.According to press reports, the substance, which is used in the treatment of cancer, contains radioactive iodine. The container holding the material fell from …
CAIRO: Mohamed Omda, an independent Member of Parliament (MP), announced Monday that he is currently working on a law aimed at giving the People’s Assembly (PA) the right to call the president to account for his actions. However, independent members of the PA are not optimistic that the law will ever see the light of …
CAIRO: Youssry Al-Gamal, minister of education, announced that the new teachers law should be implemented in all schools, including the private ones. Al-Gamal told the press that according to the new teachers law, private schools should be allowed to have only a limited number of foreign teachers – the proportion not exceeding 10 percent of …
CAIRO: Fathi Sorour, Speaker of the People’s Assembly (PA), turned down a request to remove president of Al-Wafd opposition party Mahmoud Abaza, from his position as head of the party’s parliamentary delegation. The request was filed by Ahmed Nasser, vice president of Al-Wafd party, according to Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour, secretary general of the party. …