As the Egyptian pound threatens to devaluate again, the Minister of Health hopes to promote local manufacturing of medicine.

Two bombs exploded on Sunday in Egypt’s Mediterranean city of Alexandria, one outside a popular supermarket chain and another near a police station, killing one person and wounding at least 7, security officials said.

Alexandria's criminal court ordered on Monday the release of Mohamed El-Sheimy, a police officer accused of torturing Sayed Belal to death during investigations into a bomb attack at the Two Saints Church in the Mediterranean city in 2011.

“I find it hard to say that I can’t feed my family, but this is the reality,” Mohamed, an administrative worker from Cairo University, told IRIN

An 18-year-old suburban Chicago man, who the authorities say was enamored with Osama bin Laden and intent on killing Americans, has been arrested after attempting to detonate what he thought was a car bomb outside a Chicago bar, officials said Saturday.