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

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Egypt: news

Bin Laden's son deported to Qatar

Sunday, November 9th 2008, 14:17
related countries: Qatar Qatar, Spain Spain

One of Osama Bin Laden's sons arrives in Qatar after being deported from Egypt and Spain following failed asylum bids.
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Bin Laden son questioned in Egypt

Sunday, November 9th 2008, 0:10
related countries: Spain Spain

Egyptian authorities question a son of Osama Bin Laden after his return from a failed attempt to claim asylum in Spain.
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Hamas boycotts Palestinian talks

Saturday, November 8th 2008, 12:18
related places: Cairo

Palestinian militant group Hamas says it will boycott talks with its Fatah rivals due to have begun in Cairo on Sunday.
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Brawls at Egyptian opposition HQ

Thursday, November 6th 2008, 15:14

Several people are reportedly injured in clashes between factions of the Egyptian opposition Ghad party.
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Veiled comeback

Tuesday, November 4th 2008, 14:05

Egyptian presenter on air after six-year headscarf battle
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Egypt school beating 'kills boy'

Tuesday, October 28th 2008, 14:35

An Egyptian schoolboy dies after allegedly being beaten by his teacher for not doing his homework, local reports say.
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Egypt arrests 'wife swap' couple

Monday, October 27th 2008, 11:18

Police arrest an Egyptian couple for organizing and holding sex parties with other married couples, security officials say.
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Israeli president in Egypt talks

Thursday, October 23rd 2008, 7:04
related countries: Israel Israel

Israeli President Shimon Peres is to hold talks with his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak in Sharm El-Sheikh.
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Egyptian sexual harasser jailed

Tuesday, October 21st 2008, 20:28

An Egyptian man is sentenced to three years in prison with hard labour for groping a woman in the street.
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Egyptian sexual harasser jailed

Tuesday, October 21st 2008, 20:28

An Egyptian man is sentenced to three years in prison with hard labour for groping a woman in the street.
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Egypt in Palestinian unity push

Tuesday, October 21st 2008, 10:33
related places: Cairo

Egypt presents a Palestinian "consensus" plan and invites rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas for talks in Cairo.
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Slum charity nun Emmanuelle dies

Monday, October 20th 2008, 9:39
related countries: Belgium Belgium
related places: Cairo

Sister Emmanuelle, a Belgian-born nun who dedicated her later life to helping poor children in the slums of Cairo, dies aged 99.
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Tycoon denies murdering pop star

Saturday, October 18th 2008, 14:44
related countries: Lebanon Lebanon

Egyptian tycoon Hisham Talaat Moustafa pleads not guilty of ordering the murder of Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim.
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Gaza tunnels 'an industry'

Thursday, October 16th 2008, 13:25

The level of smuggling tunnels between Gaza and Egypt is now an industry in its own right, say UN officials.
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Woman dies in Egypt police raid

Thursday, October 9th 2008, 11:56
related places: Cairo

Crowds of Egyptians attack police with clubs and stones in a town south of Cairo after a pregnant woman dies in a police raid.
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Egyptian killed in sectarian row

Wednesday, October 8th 2008, 6:47

Sectarian ties are shaken in Egypt by the murder of a Muslim whose wife converted against her Christian family's wish.
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Egypt leader pardons media critic

Monday, October 6th 2008, 22:49

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak pardons a newspaper editor sentenced to jail for an article questioning his health.
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Egypt blocks Gaza protest attempt

Monday, October 6th 2008, 14:59
related countries: Gaza Strip Gaza Strip

Police in Egypt block a convoy organised by opposition groups to carry medical supplies to the Gaza Strip.
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Dream home

Tuesday, September 30th 2008, 6:19

Egypt quiz show offers escape from housing crisis
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Abducted Western tourists freed

Monday, September 29th 2008, 14:40

Eleven Europeans are freed in an operation near Sudan's border with Chad, 10 days after being kidnapped in Egypt.
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Egypt tourist kidnappers 'killed'

Sunday, September 28th 2008, 21:20
related countries: Sudan Sudan

Sudanese troops shoot dead six of the kidnappers who abducted European tourists in Egypt last week, officials say.
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Egypt tourist kidnappers 'killed'

Sunday, September 28th 2008, 21:20
related countries: Sudan Sudan

Sudanese troops shoot dead six of the kidnappers who abducted European tourists in Egypt last week, officials say.
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Fire guts Egypt National Theatre

Sunday, September 28th 2008, 3:47
related places: Cairo

A fire blamed on an an electrical fault destroys the main hall of Egypt's National Theatre in central Cairo.
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European hostages 'not in Libya'

Friday, September 26th 2008, 21:55
related countries: Libya Libya

A Libyan official says European tourists kidnapped in Egypt are not in Libya, as was claimed earlier this week.
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Egypt hostages 'moved to Libya'

Thursday, September 25th 2008, 14:47
related countries: Libya Libya, Sudan Sudan

A group of European tourists and their guides kidnapped in Egypt's desert have been moved to Libya, a Sudanese official says.
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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 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 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 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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