CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities have released a prominent activist and blogger who had criticized the government after more than seven months of detention.

Lawyer Gamal Eid says his client, Wael Abbas, was freed late Tuesday, more than a week after a court ordered his conditional ...

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian lawyer said Saturday he and others have filed a court case to force the country’s parliament to debate amending a constitutional clause that bars President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi from running for a third term in 2022.

The lawyer, Ayman Abdel-Hakim Ramadan, told The ...

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court has sentenced five people, including the head of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group, to life in prison on charges related to inciting violence and supporting militants.

The Cairo Criminal Court has convicted Mohammed Badie and five others of providing ...

ROME (AP) — Prosecutors in Rome on Tuesday formally opened an investigation into five Egyptian domestic secret service members and police investigators in connection with the 2016 torture and murder of an Italian researcher.

The five were being investigating on possible abduction charges ...

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian actress facing trial on public obscenity charges for wearing a revealing dress says she didn’t mean to offend anyone and appealed to her detractors to believe in her good intentions.

In a Facebook post late Saturday, Rania Youssef said she may have misjudged how ...

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian actress is facing trial next month charged with public obscenity after she attended the closing ceremony of a film festival in Cairo wearing a see-through embroidered gauze dress that revealed the entirety of her legs.

Rania Youssef’s trial, which is scheduled to ...

CAIRO (AP) — Italy’s foreign ministry formally summoned on Friday the Egyptian ambassador to Rome to prompt authorities in Cairo to “act rapidly” in investigating the torture and killing of an Italian researcher nearly three years ago, as pressure mounts on Egypt which voiced regret over Italy’s ...

CAIRO (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s crown prince is visiting Egypt as part of his first tour abroad since facing international outrage over the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi.

Egyptian state media say Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Cairo on Monday and was welcomed by President ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt says archaeologists digging in Cairo have found two blocks of limestone with inscriptions belonging to an engineer who worked for Ramses II, one of the longest ruling pharaohs in antiquity.

The Antiquities Ministry said Wednesday that the artifacts were found in the ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt has sentenced an alleged Islamic State supporter to death for stabbing and killing an 82-year-old Christian doctor in Cairo.

The September 2017 killing took place when the 40-year-old, pretending to be a patient, requested to see the doctor. He started stabbing the ...

CAIRO (AP) — Billboards across Cairo advertise luxury homes with “breathtaking” views in compounds with names like “La Verde” or “Vinci” in Egypt’s new capital that is under construction in the desert, miles from the Nile-side city which has been the seat of power for more than 1,000 ...

MARSA MATROUH, Egypt (AP) — Military units from Egypt and five other Arab nations have conducted war drills with live ammunition in the Egyptian desert west of Cairo.

Thursday’s drills were held in the western desert around the “Mohammed Naguib” military base near the coastal Mediterranean ...

CAIRO (AP) — An international rights group says a Sudanese opposition activist who had been living in Egypt was abducted and returned to Sudan in an operation coordinated by the security services of both countries.

Human Rights Watch says Sudanese authorities have confirmed they are ...

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court has sentenced a policeman to three years in prison and another to six months over the killing of a detainee in custody, relatively light sentences that prompted a backlash on social media.

The Cairo Criminal Court convicted the two of beating Mohamed ...

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court sentenced Mohamed Aboutrika, one of the country’s greatest all-time soccer players, to a year in prison for tax evasion while also giving him the option to pay a fine of 20,000 Egyptian pounds, or $1,115, to have the sentence suspended.

The verdict, handed ...

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court has sentenced a former governor to 10 years in prison for accepting bribes to award public works contracts.

In announcing the sentence Monday, the court said Hisham Abdel Basset accepted some $1.5 million in bribes while serving as governor of Menoufiya ...

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court has convicted 65 suspected militants of setting up a terrorist group and declaring allegiance to the extremist Islamic State group, sentencing 18 of them to life in prison.

Thursday’s verdict by a Cairo criminal court also sentenced 41 people to 15 years in ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt wants “formal agreements” that Ethiopia will not reduce Cairo’s share of the Nile during the filling of what will be Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam.

President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi told reporters Tuesday that “we need to turn Ethiopia’s goodwill into formal ...

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan has lifted a ban on agricultural imports from Egypt, the latest sign of mending relations between Cairo and Khartoum.

The announcement by President Omar al-Bashir came during a joint press conference Thursday with Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi who was on a ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian officials say security forces have killed 11 men armed with assault rifles in a firefight that began during a dawn raid on a desert cave south of Cairo.

The officials say the men killed Wednesday had been in possession of weapons and ammunition, including explosives, ...

CAIRO (AP) — The general assembly of the Egyptian Olympic Committee has ratified a two-year suspension of the chairman of Zamalek, one of Egypt’s top soccer clubs.

Comprising national sports federations, the assembly decided Saturday to write to Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security forces killed nine “terrorists” in a raid on a cave hideout along the Nile River at dawn on Monday, the Interior Ministry said.

The raid in central Egypt targeted men who were planning attacks on vital installations, resulting in a shootout that led to their ...

CAIRO (AP) — In a story Oct. 6 about Melania Trump, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Joshua Meservey works for the Heritage Institute. Meservey works for the Heritage Foundation.

A corrected version of the story is below:

Melania Trump puts on happier face during Africa ...

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian military court on Thursday sentenced 17 Islamic militants to death for involvement in deadly attacks on Christians, a rights lawyer said.

The court in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria also issued life sentences to 19 defendants and sentenced another nine to 15 ...

CAIRO (AP) — Eager to access valuable intelligence for its fight against militants, Egyptian military investigators were in Libya on Tuesday to join their counterparts interrogating the most wanted militant in Egypt, who was captured this week by a Cairo-allied Libyan force.

Hisham ...