Former Egyptian diplomat Mohamed ElBaradei has emerged as a prominent voice of the opposition to President Hosni Mubarak. Mohamed ElBaradei is best known as having been chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations' nucle...
Egyptian(埃及) banks have reopened after being shut for most of last week, as Egypt struggles to revive an economy damaged by labor protests and an uprising the toppled its president earlier this month. The banks opened for business as usual Su...
CAIRO, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak on Thursday met with Israeli(以色列) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who arrived earlier the day in Egypt's Red Sea resort Sharm el-Sheikh to discuss the obstacles faced by the stalle...
Excavations at Tel Kedesh, Israel, under the auspices of the University of Michigan and University of Minnesota, have discovered a gold coin which is the oldest to date in the country. Scientists believe it was minted in Alexandria around 191 BC and...
By Aya Batrawy Cairo, Egypt 11 November 2009 Egyptian authorities recently banned opposition leader Ayman Nour from traveling to the United States where he was invited to speak to several organizations. While Egyptian authorities say the ban is lawf...
By Brent Latham Cairo 12 October 2009 The FIFA Under-20 World Cup in Egypt has reached its final week, with a champion to be crowned on Friday in Cairo. With the football competition drawing near a close, Egyptians are offering advice for South Afri...
By Elizabeth Arrott Cairo, Egypt 07 October 2009 An Egyptian woman, right, wears a niqab a veil which shows only the eyes, as she walks with another, wearing the hijab, or headscarf, left, in downtown Cairo, Egypt (file) Egypt has long valued its ro...
Egyptian economists are fretting, as the global economic crisis bites, hitting vital sources of government revenue, like tariffs from Suez Canal traffic. The canal authority reported that traffic for January was off by 22 percent, and that revenue w...
Israeli President Shimon Peres told his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak, during a brief meeting Thursday in the Sinai resort town of Sharm el Sheikh, that Israel was prepared to accept the 2002 Arab peace plan as the basis of a global peace agree...
Egyptian and Israeli leaders met to discuss a proposed prisoner swap between Israel and Hamas, as well as the security situation in the Gaza Strip following a truce between Israel and Palestinian militants. VOA's Jim Teeple reports from Jerusalem, P...