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Egyptian policeman clashes with Israeli soldiers, kills threeF

Three Israeli soldiers and a member of Egypt's security forces were killed Saturday in a rare exchange of fire near the border between the two countries, official sources from both sides said. The Israeli army said an Egyptian assailant shot dead two soldiers "in the...

Jailed Egypt songwriter on hunger strike refuses waterF

Dissident Egyptian songwriter and poet Galal al-Behairy, who has been on hunger strike for three months in protest at his prison conditions, stopped taking water Thursday, a rights group said. Behairy, who began his hunger strike in March after five years in custody,...

Egypt: Sandstorm brings down billboard in Cairo, kills oneF

One person was killed and five others were injured Thursday when a billboard collapsed in a major thoroughfare as a result of a sandstorm that swept through Egypt's capital, state media reported. The storm "crushed" four vehicles on the October 6 motorway in the...

Repression: Egypt sentences activist Sanaa Seif to 18 months in prisonF

Egyptian political activist Sanaa Seif was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Wednesday for spreading "false information" relating to Covid-19, her sister and lawyers said. Seif's brother is jailed activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, a prominent figure in the Arab Spring...

Repression: How the Egyptian army destroyed the Sinai in the name of the “war on terror”F

Egyptian troops have demolished more than 12,300 buildings in the Sinai Peninsula since 2013 in a campaign of forced evictions that likely amount to "war crimes", Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. A decade-old jihadist insurgency in North Sinai province escalated in...

Egypt considers critics and political opponents as terrorists, world starting to push backF

By Nina Larson - Egypt must stop using anti-terrorism laws to muzzle critics and even keep them in pre-trial detention indefinitely, dozens of countries told the UN on Friday. In a rare oral rebuke of Egypt at the United Nations Human Rights Council, 31 countries...

Egypt’s dilapidated infrastructure: Fire at a garment factory near Cairo kills 20 workersF

At least 20 people were killed and 24 others injured Thursday in a clothing factory fire on the eastern outskirts of the Egyptian capital, medical and security sources told AFP.  Twelve fire trucks were dispatched to extinguish the huge blaze as smoke billowed out...

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