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Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sissi welcomes his German counterpart who is on a three-day visit to the northern African country. It is the first visit by a German president to Egypt in almost 25 years. Speaking alongside…

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi began an official visit to Turkey Wednesday for meetings with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It is the first official visit to Turkey by an Egyptian president in 12 years and comes…

Egyptian foreign minister hosts by his Turkish counterpart. Sameh Shoukry's visit to Istanbul was part of the preparations for Egpt's president upcoming visit to Turkey. The war in Gaza and the escalation between Israel and Iran were…

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with his French counterpart Catherine Colonna in Cairo on Thursday. During their meeting, the two ministers discussed bilateral relations between Egypt and France, as well as the latest…

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has called for measures to slow the birth-rate in the Arab world's most populous country, citing China's one-child policy as an example. "We need 400,000 births per year," said the leader of the…

Prominent Egyptian activist Ahmed Douma walked out of the Badr prison complex outside Cairo, a free man. He was pardoned along with four other prisoners, according to a presidential decree. The pardons, dated Saturday, were published…

A high-profile Egyptian activist who was released from prison after being pardoned by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi insists he will continue to work in the field of human rights. The case of Patrick George Zaki, a student at the…

Egyptian rights researcher Patrick Zaki and lawyer Mohamed el-Baqer were freed, a day after being pardoned by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in cases that renewed attention to Egypt's human rights record. Zaki had served 22 months in…

Saudi Arabia executed five men, four Saudis and an Egyptian, accused of attacking a place of worship, authorities said. This brings to 68 the number of executions since the beginning of the year in the kingdom, one of the countries which…

Volunteers in Egypt announced that having collected 90 tons of donations to be sent to the areas in northern Syria devastated by the earthquake. The items include essential food supplies, blankets, clothes and baby milk. "We planned…