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Egypt: Suez Canal chief seeks to dispel fears over draft Egypt lawF

The chairman of Egypt's Suez Canal on Thursday affirmed the waterway is "not for sale", in a bid to allay fears over a draft law under discussion in parliament. On Tuesday the legislature approved in principle a bill proposed by the government seeking to establish a...

Egyptians saddened by loss of so many children in church fireF

Mourners in Egypt attended a memorial service Tuesday for victims of a Coptic church fire in Cairo that killed 41 people -- among them many children, including twins and triplets. The electrical fire on Sunday ripped through the Abu Sifin church in Imbaba, a working...

Egypt: 41 killed in church fire in GizaF

By Khaled Desouki Funerals were held in two Cairo churches Sunday evening for 41 victims of a fire that ripped through a Coptic Christian church during mass, forcing worshippers to jump out of windows. The blaze, blamed on an electrical fault, hit the Abu Sifin church...

Egypt: Despite spike in infections, Egypt allows reopening of some public places, no hookah allowedF

Cairo, June 23, 2020 - Egypt will partially reopen cafes, restaurants, places of worship, cinemas and sporting clubs on Saturday, relaxing a lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, Prime Minister Mostafa  Madbouli announced. A night-time curfew was imposed in late...

Egypt: Murder of Giulio Regeni remains thorny issue in ItalyF

Rome, June 19, 2020 - Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has accepted the blame for a failure to extract answers from Egypt over the unresolved 2016 murder of an Italian student in Cairo, while defending a controversial frigate deal. The $1.2 billion sale of two warships...

Egypt holds doctors in prison for speaking out on health crisisF

Amnesty International demanded Thursday that Egypt stop its "harassment and intimidation" of frontline medics for speaking out during the coronavirus pandemic. The rights group documented the cases of eight healthcare workers, including six doctors and two...

Egypt: Nile dam talks getting complicated, experiencing deadlockF

Egypt said Saturday that tripartite talks with Ethiopia and Sudan over a controversial mega-dam on the River Nile were deadlocked because of Addis Ababa's "intransigence". The Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam (GERD) has been a source of tension in the Nile River basin...

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