Golden Cleopatra International Chess Championship 2016 a great success

Golden Cleopatra is an international chess championship, founded by Eastern Company in 1997

Maya Nawar

Al-Jazeera news producer reportedly detained

Mahmoud and his two brothers were allegedly taken on Tuesday

Adham Youssef

All passengers and crew freed from hijacked plane in Malta

A Libyan aircraft with 118 people on board landed in Malta after it was hijacked, but all of the passengers and crew have since been released, reports said. The hijackers…

Deutsche Welle

Hisham Geneina’s suspended prison sentence condemned

The New Cairo Misdemeanours Court upheld on Thursday a suspended one-year prison sentence for the former head of the CAO

Daily News Egypt

Putin: Russia didn’t hack US election, used as scapegoat

At his annual end-of-year press conference, Russian President Putin bemoaned US Democratic Party members for "accusing someone else" for their election defeat. He has also called Donald Trump's nuclear comments…

Deutsche Welle

Passenger plane hijacked and diverted to Malta, reports say

An Libyan aircraft with some 118 people on board has landed in Malta after it was hijacked, local media reported. The prime minister of Malta has said he is aware…

Deutsche Welle

Countries urge Egypt to clarify postponement of UN draft resolution on Israeli settlements

Egypt postponed the vote on a draft resolution aimed at halting Israeli settlement construction after President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi spoke to US president-elect Donald Trump

Daily News Egypt

DNE News Brief: 22 December 2016

https://youtu.be/p5wlayzib_Y

Daily News Egypt

‘Tis the season to be jolly

Four local brands to check before Christmas Eve

Nayera Yasser

Egypt’s presence at the new year’s squash championships

The start of the new year will be commemorated with the President Gold Cup International Squash Tournament 2017, which will take place in Islamabad, Pakistan, from the 3-6 January Five…

Maya Nawar