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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has confirmed he’ll stand for a third term in elections scheduled for December. The former army chief has been in power since he helped oust Mohammed Morsi, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, in 2013. Activists say his term in office has been marked by …

A huge fire has broken out at a police complex in the city of Ismailia in north-eastern Egypt, injuring dozens of pepople, local media reported. Videos posted online showed the security directorate, a building many storeys high, engulfed in flames. Civil defence sources said parts of it had collapsed. Fire …

Egyptian main opposition party won’t nominate a candidate in the presidential election due next year, it said, after one of its leaders was sentenced to six months in prison. The Free Current coalition said that Hisham Kassem had been a potential presidential candidate. He was found guilty of slander and …

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has said that the country needs to slow its birth rate to avoid a catastrophe, local media reported. He said that Egypt has to lower its annual births to 400,000 from the current more than two million for the country to efficiently provide jobs and …

Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah al-Sissi has pardoned jailed rights activist Patrick Zaki and lawyer Mohammed al-Baqer, state media reported. The news comes a day after an emergency court found Mr Zaki guilty of “spreading false news” and sentenced him to three years in prison. The judgement, based on an article …

Thousands of Egyptian migrants have been deported on foot back to Egypt, Libyan media reported. A Libyan security source says that 4,000 migrants have been found during raids on people traffickers in the east of Libya. An Egyptian security source has said that only about half of those rounded up …

More than 2,000 mummified rams’ heads dating from the Ptolemaic era have been discovered in the Temple of Ramses II in the ancient city of Abydos in southern Egypt, authorities said on Sunday. Mummies of sheep, dogs, goats, cows, gazelles and mongooses were also exhumed by a team of American …

A smiling two-dimpled limestone sphinx has been discovered in Egypt, in a Byzantine pool inside a two-tiered tomb, local media reported, citing the Egyptian ministry of tourism and antiquities. “The sphinx was discovered alongside a Roman stele engraved in demotic and hieroglyphics,” the ministry said Monday. The stele still needs …

Egypt on Thursday unveiled four tombs of pharaonic dignitaries and a more than 4,000-year-old mummy at Saqqara near Cairo, the latest of discoveries announced with great fanfare by a country keen to bring tourists back. It was in the necropolis of Saqqara, known for the famous step pyramid of Pharaoh …