Head of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council Maha Azzam has written to the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet Jeria urging her to publicly condemn the regional conference on torture which will be held in Cairo at the beginning of September and will be co-hosted by the international body.

An Egyptian government source told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity that the Egyptian authorities have banned the publication of any unofficial information about the United States’ so-called “deal of the century,” particularly about the June “Peace to Prosperity” economic meeting held in Manama in partnership with Washington. 

“British Airways’ move is absolutely not tied to a political decision. Their move is tied to the reasons they accounted for in their own statement,”  a source within the British Embassy told Mada Masr on Monday. 

Three-hundred Egyptian pilgrims yesterday returned to the Cairo from Saudi Arabia for allegedly “attempting to enter the kingdom with tourism visas.”

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry expressed concern over illegal drilling activities by Turkey in Cyprus’ special economic zone, the ministry announced in a press statement on Tuesday.

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has praised Egypt as an “example of stability” in the Middle East thanks to its close ties with the Gulf countries, and reiterated his support for Egypt’s efforts to fight militants in the Sinai Peninsula.

Egypt will not renounce one grain of sand from the lands of the Sinai, the Egyptian foreign minister, Sameh Shoukry, said yesterday. Shoukry’s remarks were Cairo’s first comment on the US-led Middle East deal, dubbed “Deal of the Century.”

Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, and Minister of Defence, Mohamed Zaki, headed to Russia on Sunday for bilateral talks held on Monday, according to an Egyptian military statement.

An international media group has demanded that Egypt free an Al Jazeera journalist held for more than two years after a court formally ordered his release last week. 

Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan visited Cairo May 15 and met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The two heads of state discussed the May 12 attacks on four cargo vessels off the United Arab Emirates coast and the terrorist attack on two oil pumping stations in Saudi …