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Giulio Regeni: Italy condemns Egypt for ruling out charges against police

Thursday, December 31st 2020, 10:59
related countries: Italy Italy

Italian prosecutors had accused four Egyptian officers of the murder of a Cambridge student in 2016.
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Great Pyramid: Lost Egyptian artefact found in Aberdeen cigar box

Wednesday, December 16th 2020, 0:42

The 5,000-year-old piece of wood, originally found in the Great Pyramid in 1872, is said to be "hugely significant".
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Rita Ora sorry for Covid breach after Egypt trip

Monday, December 7th 2020, 10:11

The pop star should have been isolating at home after a trip to Egypt when she threw a party.
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Egypt arrests: Three human rights members released from detention

Friday, December 4th 2020, 8:47
related places: Cairo

Their arrests had drawn widespread criticism from the UN, civil liberties groups and celebrities.
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Amnesty condemns Egypt's 'execution spree'

Wednesday, December 2nd 2020, 15:29

The campaign group says Egypt executed at least 57 people in October and November alone.
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Giulio Regeni: Egypt 'suspends' investigation into Cambridge student's murder

Tuesday, December 1st 2020, 11:14
related countries: Italy Italy

Italian prosecutors believe Egyptian security agents killed PhD student Giulio Regeni in 2016.
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Egypt singer Mohamed Ramadan faces lawsuit over photo with Israelis

Tuesday, November 24th 2020, 12:03

Mohamed Ramadan is accused of "insulting the Egyptian people" with the images from a Dubai party.
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Egypt arrests: UN condemns detention of human rights advocates

Friday, November 20th 2020, 13:11

Three members of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, including its head, have been detained.
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Egypt arrests human rights group's staff in 'chilling escalation'

Wednesday, November 18th 2020, 20:49

The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights says two employees have been detained since Sunday.
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Egypt: More than 100 intact sarcophagi unearthed near Cairo

Saturday, November 14th 2020, 22:43
related places: Cairo

Archaeologists opened one coffin to reveal a mummy, dating back over 2,500 years.
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Footballer Salah tests positive for coronavirus

Friday, November 13th 2020, 23:15

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah tests positive for coronavirus while on international duty with Egypt.
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How the controversial Nile dam might fix Sudan's floods

Sunday, November 1st 2020, 1:03
related countries: Ethiopia Ethiopia, Sudan Sudan

Egypt and Ethiopia are at loggerheads over the mega dam, with Sudan literally stuck in the middle.
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Trump and Africa: How Ethiopia was 'betrayed' over Nile dam

Tuesday, October 27th 2020, 0:44
related countries: United States United States
related places: Africa, Nile

The US president has sided with Egypt in the escalating dispute over a mega dam, analysts say.
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Trump comment on 'blowing up' Nile Dam angers Ethiopia

Saturday, October 24th 2020, 17:01

Its PM condemns "aggressions" after Donald Trump says Egypt might destroy a controversial Nile dam.
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Gal Gadot's Cleopatra film sparks 'whitewashing' claims

Tuesday, October 13th 2020, 21:15

Critics on social media say the role of Egypt's famed ruler should go to an Arab or African actress.
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Gazans struggle with pandemic and blockade

Friday, October 9th 2020, 23:04
related countries: Israel Israel

Citizens in the overcrowded Palestinian territory are struggling to deal with the pandemic amid an ongoing blockade by Israel and Egypt.
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Nile dam row: US 'to cut $100m in aid' to Ethiopia

Wednesday, September 2nd 2020, 20:45
related countries: Ethiopia Ethiopia, Sudan Sudan, United States United States

Ethiopia has begun filling the mega dam before reaching an agreement with Sudan and Egypt.
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Egypt #MeToo: Arrests over alleged gang rape after Instagram campaign

Tuesday, August 25th 2020, 17:19
related places: Cairo

The incident at a Cairo hotel was reported by an Instagram account behind a growing #MeToo campaign.
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Nile dam row: Ethiopia's pop stars hit out

Friday, August 21st 2020, 23:15
related countries: Ethiopia Ethiopia

The battle with Egypt over who has rights to the waters of the River Nile is played out by musicians.
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Libya conflict: Why Egypt might send troops to back Gen Haftar

Monday, August 17th 2020, 23:26

The fall of Col Gaddafi nine years ago unleased chaos in North Africa, which Egypt fears could spill over.
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Egypt TikTok and Instagram stars pay heavy price for 'indecency'

Monday, August 17th 2020, 13:23

They have millions of followers, but Egypt's social media stars are paying a heavy price.
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Coronavirus: Why Egypt has faced criticism over antibody tests

Friday, August 14th 2020, 23:02

Egypt has faced criticism for testing frontline healthcare workers for coronavirus using antibody tests.
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Egypt tells Elon Musk its pyramids were not built by aliens

Sunday, August 2nd 2020, 12:10

Egypt invited the billionaire to visit, after he appeared to tweet support for conspiracy theorists.
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Nile dam row: Egypt fumes as Ethiopia celebrates

Wednesday, July 29th 2020, 23:34
related countries: Ethiopia Ethiopia

Concerns grow as Nile River nations fail to reach a deal on how to share the vital waters.
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Why can’t Egypt and Ethiopia agree on the Nile dam?

Friday, July 17th 2020, 7:07
related countries: Ethiopia Ethiopia

A look behind the fraught stand-off over a controversial new dam on the Blue Nile.
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River Nile dam: Sudan blasts 'unilateral' move as Ethiopia dam fills

Thursday, July 16th 2020, 13:14
related countries: Ethiopia Ethiopia, Sudan Sudan

As talks fail with Ethiopia, Sudan says water levels drop downstream and Egypt demands "clarification".
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River Nile dam: Reservoir filling up, Ethiopia confirms

Wednesday, July 15th 2020, 16:43
related countries: Ethiopia Ethiopia, Sudan Sudan

Officials confirm satellite images showing water levels rising, amid failed talks with Egypt and Sudan.
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Egypt desperate to revive coronavirus-hit tourism industry

Tuesday, July 14th 2020, 23:44

The pandemic brought Egypt's tourism industry to a virtual halt, affecting millions of livelihoods.
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A dam on the Nile is making lots of heat but no power

Thursday, July 9th 2020, 23:45
related countries: Ethiopia Ethiopia

Egypt sees the dam as an existential threat, while Ethiopia sees it as an existential necessity.
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Tutankhamun’s last tour: Behind the mask

Wednesday, July 8th 2020, 19:35

Why the global exhibition of one of Egypt’s greatest icons may actually be illegal.
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FGM: Egyptian father 'used coronavirus lie to trick daughters' into procedure

Friday, June 5th 2020, 9:51

The girls were cut after their father said they were receiving a coronavirus "vaccine", officials say.
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Hisham Selim, famed Egyptian actor, praised over transgender son

Sunday, May 10th 2020, 0:07

When a famed Egyptian actor revealed his daughter had transitioned, the reaction was unconventional.
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'Alcohol poisoning' kills jailed Egyptian filmmaker

Wednesday, May 6th 2020, 14:03

Shady Habash, whose video mocked the president, "mistook hand sanitiser for water", prosecutors say.
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Coronavirus in Egypt: 'The supervising doctor has tested positive'

Wednesday, April 15th 2020, 23:15

Medics tackling coronavirus in Egypt say they fear shortages of protective equipment.
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Coronavirus: 'I lost my mum on Mother's Day'

Tuesday, April 14th 2020, 6:02

Egyptian Aya says she would have crumbled were it not for the support of strangers on WhatsApp.
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Hosni Mubarak: Former Egyptian President dies aged 91

Tuesday, February 25th 2020, 12:30
related places: Cairo

The former president, who was ousted by the military in 2011, has died in hospital in Cairo aged 91.
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The unlikely friendship saving Egypt’s synagogues

Tuesday, February 18th 2020, 0:03

Magda, who is Jewish, and Marwa, who is Palestinian and Muslim, are driving a push to rescue Egypt's Jewish heritage.
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'Tortured' Egyptian student's plight drawn by Italian street artist

Wednesday, February 12th 2020, 12:43
related countries: Italy Italy

Patrick Zaky from Egypt was studying in Italy and was detained when he flew home for a family visit.
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Female genital mutilation: Parents arrested after death of girl in Egypt

Friday, January 31st 2020, 16:35
related places: Asyut

An aunt and a doctor who allegedly carried out the illegal procedure are also detained in Asyut.
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Mummy returns: Voice of 3,000-year-old Egyptian priest brought to life

Thursday, January 23rd 2020, 16:20

Experts use 3D printing and speech technology to replicate the voice of Egyptian priest Nesyamun.
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Nile River dam row: Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan make draft deal

Thursday, January 16th 2020, 14:27
related countries: Ethiopia Ethiopia, Sudan Sudan

The initial accord eases tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia over control of vital water supplies.
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Egypt-Ethiopia row: The trouble over a giant Nile dam

Monday, January 13th 2020, 7:49
related countries: Ethiopia Ethiopia

At the heart of the dispute between Ethiopia and Egypt is who has control over Africa's longest river.
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US stops sending sniffer dogs to Jordan and Egypt

Tuesday, December 24th 2019, 1:42
related countries: Jordan Jordan, United States United States

The move follows the deaths of US-trained dogs due to negligence - one died of heat stroke.
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Egyptian woman 'wins court battle' over unequal inheritance laws

Monday, November 25th 2019, 17:07

Christian Huda Nasrallah says she will receive the same as her brothers, counter to Islamic law.
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Egypt animal mummies showcased at Saqqara near Cairo

Saturday, November 23rd 2019, 16:16
related places: Cairo

The mummies, including cats, crocodiles, cobras, were found at the Saqqara necropolis near Cairo.
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'I was whipped with metal chains in an Egyptian prison'

Monday, October 28th 2019, 5:56

For Ibrahim Halawa, what began as a family holiday in 2013 became four years in an Egyptian prison.
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Egypt protests: The unlikely man behind rare anti-government protests

Thursday, October 24th 2019, 20:15

A businessman turned actor who spurred hundreds to protest in Egypt speaks to the BBC.
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Abiy Ahmed: No force can stop Ethiopia from building dam

Tuesday, October 22nd 2019, 16:33
related countries: Ethiopia Ethiopia

Abiy Ahmed says "no force can stop Ethiopia" from building the dam, despite objections from Egypt.
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Thirty mummies in wooden coffins found in Egypt

Sunday, October 20th 2019, 11:46

In the largest haul of its kind in more than a century, 30 mummies have been unearthed in Egypt.
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Mohamed Ramadan: Egypt star in cockpit gets pilot banned for life

Friday, October 18th 2019, 18:56

Egypt bans a pilot for life for allowing actor Mohamed Ramadan to sit in the cockpit during a flight.
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The Egyptian calling for a revolution against al-Sisi

Thursday, September 26th 2019, 23:46

Mohamed Ali is a former Egyptian military contractor calling for protests against Egypt's president.
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New York Met museum returns stolen ancient Egyptian coffin

Thursday, September 26th 2019, 9:34

The 2,100-year-old coffin was sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for $4m (£3.2m).
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Mohamed Ali: The self-exiled Egyptian sparking protests at home

Tuesday, September 24th 2019, 10:05

Who is the man whose online anger brought Egyptians onto the streets?
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Egypt protests: 'Hundreds held' after rare anti-government unrest

Monday, September 23rd 2019, 17:47
related places: Cairo

Protests against alleged government corruption erupted in Cairo and other cities over the weekend.
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Egyptians protest against President Fattah al-Sisi

Saturday, September 21st 2019, 12:03

The protests are among the first in Egypt since President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi took power in 2014.
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Egypt protests: Anti-government chants in Tahrir Square

Saturday, September 21st 2019, 8:51

Rare protests have taken place in Egypt, calling for the removal of President Abdul Fattah Sisi.
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