News: Egypt

We have started to collect the most important news related to Egypt in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

World news related to Egypt – overview

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Egypt: news

Nomad's land

Thursday, September 25th 2008, 0:32

Egyptian plateau attracts thrill-seeking tourists
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Egypt desert hostages 'are well'

Wednesday, September 24th 2008, 15:01
related countries: Sudan

Sudanese officials say European tourists and Egyptian guides kidnapped last Friday are well, but rule out a military rescue.
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Five killed in Gaza tunnel blast

Wednesday, September 24th 2008, 8:32

Five Palestinian smugglers die in what officials in Gaza say was an Egyptian anti-smuggling operation.
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Egypt hostages' location 'known'

Tuesday, September 23rd 2008, 13:06
related countries: Germany

Sudan says it has pinpointed the location of 11 foreign tourists and eight Egyptians taken hostage on Friday.
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Egypt abduction talks 'ongoing'

Tuesday, September 23rd 2008, 0:53

Egypt withdraws an earlier statement that an abducted European tourist group is free, saying talks are continuing.
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Eleven tourists seized in Egypt

Monday, September 22nd 2008, 18:16
related countries: Italy

Five Italian tourists are among a group of people who have been kidnapped in Egypt, the Italian foreign ministry says.
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Gaza-Egypt border crossing opens

Saturday, September 20th 2008, 9:30

Gaza's border crossing with Egypt is opened for two days to allow students, pilgrims and patients out of the Hamas-run strip.
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Egypt winds up landslide rescue

Tuesday, September 16th 2008, 15:45
related places: Cairo

Rescue workers end a search for survivors in a Cairo slum where a landslide killed at least 90 people, but hundreds may remain buried.
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Sinai coach crash kills tourists

Monday, September 15th 2008, 9:31

Twelve tourists, including seven foreigners, are killed in a road accident in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, reports say.
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Egyptian rockslide toll passes 70

Thursday, September 11th 2008, 14:50
related places: Cairo

The death toll from a devastating rockfall in the Egyptian capital Cairo has risen to more than 70, officials say.
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After the fall

Wednesday, September 10th 2008, 17:07
related places: Cairo

Grief and anger at scene of deadly Cairo rockfall
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Egypt rockfall death toll rises

Wednesday, September 10th 2008, 10:50
related places: Cairo

The death toll from a rockfall in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, has risen to 61, with many more missing, state media says.
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Egypt school exam cheats jailed

Tuesday, September 9th 2008, 11:10

Fourteen people, including an exam board chairman, are jailed in Egypt for leaking details of the senior school exam.
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Upper Egypt prison shaken by riot

Monday, September 8th 2008, 16:46

A prisoner dies and at least 20 people, mostly inmates are wounded in rioting at a prison in Assiut, southern Egypt.
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Cairo rockslide death toll climbs

Monday, September 8th 2008, 12:49
related places: Cairo

At least 51 people are known to have died and many more are missing in a rockslide at a shanty town in Egypt's capital, Cairo.
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In pictures

Sunday, September 7th 2008, 16:36
related places: Cairo

Images of the aftermath of the Cairo rockslide
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Cairo rockslide search continues

Sunday, September 7th 2008, 8:52
related places: Cairo

Rescuers in Cairo continue their search for survivors after a rockslide hit dozens of homes in Egypt's capital, killing at least 31.
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Deadly rockslide hits Cairo homes

Saturday, September 6th 2008, 19:45
related places: Cairo

At least 24 people have died after a rockslide destroys homes in a shanty town in the Egyptian capital, emergency services say.
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Street harassment

Wednesday, September 3rd 2008, 6:58

Egyptian women tell of almost daily sexual assault
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Egypt tycoon held for Tamim death

Tuesday, September 2nd 2008, 16:26
related countries: Lebanon

Egyptian tycoon Hisham Talaat Moustafa is arrested and charged over the murder of Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim.
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Egypt opens Gaza border crossing

Saturday, August 30th 2008, 11:43
related countries: Gaza Strip
related places: Rafah

Egypt temporarily re-opens its Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip, allowing hundreds of Palestinians to move in and out.
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Israeli activist Abie Nathan dies

Thursday, August 28th 2008, 9:40
related countries: Israel

Abie Nathan, the maverick Israeli peace activist who flew a private plane to Egypt in 1966, dies at the age of 81.
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Egypt urges end to Israel threats

Wednesday, August 27th 2008, 12:17
related countries: Israel, Lebanon

Egypt is trying to defuse growing tension between Israel and Lebanon, its foreign minister says.
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Egypt's parliament hit by blaze

Tuesday, August 19th 2008, 22:50
related places: Cairo

At least 13 people are hurt in a fire at the upper house of the Egyptian parliament in Cairo, officials say.
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Septuplet couple 'need support'

Monday, August 18th 2008, 14:44

An Egyptian woman who gave birth to septuplets says she might need financial support to help raise them.
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