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Egypt: New coronavirus cases detected in Egypt
Cairo, March 6, 2020 - Egypt detected 12 new cases Friday of the novel coronavirus among workers aboard a Nile cruise boat heading from Aswan to Luxor, a health ministry statement said. "Twelve new cases tested positive for the coronavirus among Egyptian staff on the...
Coronavirus exposes the deep divisions in the Arab world
Egypt executes insurgent leader Hisham Ashmawy
Egypt: Dozens sentenced to death in Egypt over terror attacks
Egypt: Health officials identify second case of coronavirus
Global markets rattled by coronavirus
Egypt former strong-man Hosni Mubarak dies at 91
Egypt: Doctor in court over deadly genital mutilation
Egypt: Mubarak’s sons cleared by court in market manipulation case
Egypt confronts Ethiopia over future access to Nile’s water
Egypt: Cost of smuggling antiquities: brother of ex minister gets 30 years in prison
North Africa’s first case of coronavirus confirmed in Egypt
Demographic milestone: Egypt’s population exceeds 100 million
Egypt: Cairo’s green lung razed for roads to new desert capital
Egypt: Scores killed during insurgent attempt to raid military site in Sinai
Cairo, Feb 9, 2020 - Militants killed and wounded seven Egyptian soldiers in restive North Sinai on Sunday, Egypt's military said. The army said it "foiled" an attack on security facilities, "killing 10 terrorists and destroying a four-wheel drive used by the...
Egypt: Islamic State claims attack on pipeline in Sinai
Egypt: Universities to ban niqab for female staff
Cairo, Jan 27, 2020 - A top Egyptian court has ruled in favour of banning female academic staff at Cairo University from wearing the Muslim face veil, known as the niqab, lawyer Ahmed Mahran said Monday. The decision taken by the Supreme Administrative Court last week...
Egypt: How to loot a country’s treasures
Cairo, Jan 21, 2020 - A Cairo criminal court sentenced a former honorary Italian consul to 15 years in jail in absentia on Tuesday for smuggling antiquities out of the country, a judicial source said. Ladislav Otakar Skakal, Italy's former honorary consul in Luxor,...
Egypt: Court shows unusual defiance to Sisi regime
Cairo, Jan 21, 2020 - An Egyptian court has ordered the country's interior minister to reveal the whereabouts of a missing former parliamentarian believed to be in state custody, his wife told AFP Tuesday. Mostafa al-Naggar, a former opposition lawmaker and key figure...
Egypt: More pressure on Sisi over death of US citizen in Egyptian prison
Berlin, Jan 19, 2020 - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed US "outrage" in a meeting Sunday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi over the death of an American national imprisoned in Egypt since 2013. Mustafa Kassem, a 54-year-old Egyptian-American who...
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