Aid convoys bound for the Gaza Strip will now be banned from travelling across Egypt after activists this week clashed with police, the foreign minister said in remarks published on Saturday. Ahmed Abul Gheit told government newspaper Al-Ahram that members of one convoy led by British MP George Galloway committed "criminal" acts on Egyptian soil on their way to the ...

Egypt told MP George Galloway he was persona non grata on Friday after activists who joined him to send an aid convoy to Gaza clashed with police. The left-wing lawmaker flew home to London, claiming he had been "basically forced" onto a plane in Cairo, although Egyptian authorities denied they had deported him. A foreign ministry official told Galloway before ...

Egypt told British MP George Galloway he was persona non grata on Friday after activists who joined him to send an aid convoy to Gaza clashed with police. The left-wing lawmaker flew home to London, claiming he had been "basically forced" onto a plane in Cairo, although Egyptian authorities denied they had deported him. A foreign ministry official told Galloway ...