Sources: Reuters
Egypt's National Elections Authority finalizes the remaining 49 parliamentary seats, confirming that President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's allies retain the two-thirds supermajority needed to amend the constitution, while opposition parties and independents hold about 158 of 568 elected seats. 2026-01-10
Ten people are killed and eight others are injured when a three-story residential building collapses in Cairo, Egypt. 2025-02-17
Egypt's Tourism Hajj Mission announces that at least eight Egyptian pilgrims have died during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia. 2024-06-17
Egypt tries 237 activists, who face jail terms of up to three years, arrested for protesting without permits against President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Thousands demonstrated this month following the Sisi government's decision to hand over two uninhabited islands in the Straits of Tiran to Saudi Arabia. Human Rights Watch says at least 382 had been arrested. 2016-04-30
Russian air transport chief Alexander Neradko says Flight 9268 broke apart at high altitude and scattered plane parts over a wide swath of Egyptian desert. Neradko added it was too soon to determine what caused Saturday's horrific crash. 2015-11-1
At least 25 people have been killed and 22 injured at a fire in a furniture factory in Obour City near the Egyptian capital Cairo. 2015-07-28
Egypt declares a three month state of emergency for parts of the Sinai Peninsula after at least 31 soldiers are killed in two attacks there. 2014-10-25
The National Salvation Front, Egypt's main opposition party, announces it will boycott the upcoming parliamentary election. 2013-02-26
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons are to be tried over the deaths of anti-government protesters. 2011-05-24
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refuses to resign in an address to the nation. 2011-02-10