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.

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Egypt: news

Mummies in ancient Egypt burial site

Saturday, May 13th 2017, 16:36

As many as 32 mummies may be in the chamber, according to Professor Salah Al-Kholi, of Cairo University.
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Polish tourist's death in Egypt 'may be linked to trafficking'

Thursday, May 11th 2017, 16:19
related countries: Poland

Investigators in Poland say organised crime may be linked to woman's hospital plunge.
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Egyptian sports fans wrestling with regret

Tuesday, May 9th 2017, 13:55
related countries: Bulgaria

Wrestler Tarek Abdul Salam wins a gold for Bulgaria, disappointing fans in Egypt, where he was born.
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Locked-up love

Wednesday, May 3rd 2017, 23:20

Spaniard Jimena Rico and her Egyptian-born girlfriend Shaza Ismail were pursued across borders.
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Egyptian Saad Mohammed creates 700 metre Koran by hand

Wednesday, May 3rd 2017, 16:25

Saad Mohammed is hopeful his painstakingly-created scroll qualifies as a Guinness World Records.
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Pope Francis celebrates Mass in packed Cairo stadium

Saturday, April 29th 2017, 12:02
related places: Cairo

Pope Francis celebrates Mass in Cairo on the final day of his visit to Egypt.
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Pope Francis visits bombed Coptic church during Egypt visit

Friday, April 28th 2017, 18:40

Francis is on a short visit to Egypt, where he has urged religious leaders to help end violence.
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Pope in Egypt for historic visit

Friday, April 28th 2017, 17:44

Pope Francis urged faith leaders to denounce violence following bomb attacks that killed dozens of Christians.
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'500kg' Egyptian woman's sister accuses Indian doctors of lying

Tuesday, April 25th 2017, 7:51
related countries: India

The sister of an Egyptian woman who went to India for weight loss surgery lashes out at her doctors.
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Egyptian soldiers accused of killing unarmed Sinai men in leaked video

Friday, April 21st 2017, 22:06

Unverified footage appears to show soldiers shooting dead unarmed detainees in the northern Sinai.
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Trump welcomes freed US-Egypt prisoner Aya Hijazi to White House

Friday, April 21st 2017, 16:11
related countries: United States

The Obama administration had failed to secure 30-year-old Aya Hijazi's release in Cairo.
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Deadly attack near Egypt's old monastery

Wednesday, April 19th 2017, 0:27

A policeman is killed as gunmen attack a checkpoint near St Catherine's monastery in south Sinai.
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Egypt court acquits charity worker Aya Hijazi

Sunday, April 16th 2017, 14:11
related countries: United States

The US-Egyptian citizen has been detained since 2014 on charges that rights groups called bogus.
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Pope Francis uses Easter message to condemn 'vile' Syria attack

Sunday, April 16th 2017, 12:22

Saturday's blast near the city of Aleppo killed more than 100 people, mostly evacuees.
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The woman who fought to become Egypt's only deaf dentist

Thursday, April 13th 2017, 0:33

Esraa was turned away from all but one of Egypt's dental schools but that didn't stop her from becoming the country's first deaf dentist.
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Dancing after dark

Wednesday, April 12th 2017, 23:41

Tensions exist between Christians and Muslims in many parts of the Middle East, including Egypt - though less so among the Nubians of the upper Nile.
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Egypt mourns Coptic church attack victims

Tuesday, April 11th 2017, 0:38

Many mourners express outrage at the state's failure to protect Egypt's Coptic Christian minority.
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Egypt churchgoers defiant after IS bomb

Monday, April 10th 2017, 22:57
related places: Tanta

Worshippers return to church in Tanta, Egypt, after a bomb that killed 28 people.
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'I feel so scared'

Monday, April 10th 2017, 11:05

An Egyptian Christian tells of a climate of fear among his community after two bombings.
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Egyptian professor investigated over bellydance video

Thursday, April 6th 2017, 9:40

A professor in Egypt fears losing her job after a video of her dancing is shared on social media.
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Egypt convicts 56 over migrant boat sinking that killed 200

Sunday, March 26th 2017, 14:35
related countries: Italy

The migrants had been hoping to reach Italy when the boat capsized off Egypt's coast last September.
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Brazil meat scandal: China and others lift ban

Saturday, March 25th 2017, 23:55
related countries: Chile, China

Chile and Egypt have also lifted bans imposed over claims that unsafe produce was sold for years.
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Egypt's Hosni Mubarak freed after six years in detention

Friday, March 24th 2017, 10:36

It is the first time Egypt's ex-president is allowed to go home since his 2011 overthrow.
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Roadside bombings kill 10 Egypt soldiers during Sinai raid

Thursday, March 23rd 2017, 10:20

The bombs were detonated during clashes triggered by army raids on jihadist militant strongholds.
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Egypt Pharaoh statue 'not Ramses II but different ruler'

Thursday, March 16th 2017, 21:07
related places: Cairo

The statue pulled from the mud in Cairo may in fact be Psamtek I, a more recent ruler.
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Egypt extracts torso of 'Pharaoh Ramses II' statue from mud

Monday, March 13th 2017, 16:08
related places: Cairo

Two parts of a statue possibly dating back 3,000 years were found in Cairo last week.
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Egyptian pharaoh statue of Ramses II is 'big discovery'

Thursday, March 9th 2017, 20:49
related places: Cairo

Archaeologists say the figure found in water in a Cairo neighbourhood may depict Ramses II.
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Weight-loss surgery for 500kg woman in India

Thursday, March 9th 2017, 7:04
related countries: India

A hospital in India says Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, from Egypt, has lost 100kg after the operation.
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Fighting the black cloud

Tuesday, March 7th 2017, 0:17

How a school science lab experiment is helping tackle the polluting smog that chokes Egypt's cities.
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Egypt ad campaign backfires over 'spinster' billboards

Monday, March 6th 2017, 14:08

Consumer agency intervenes after furore over billboards for Egyptian cooking oil company.
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Coptic Christian mother sees husband and son killed

Wednesday, March 1st 2017, 2:55

Hundreds of Coptic Christians have fled Egypt’s northern Sinai region after a spate of so-called Islamic State attacks with seven people killed within two weeks.
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Italy grants partial clemency to former CIA officer

Tuesday, February 28th 2017, 23:19

Sabrina de Sousa is partially pardoned for her role in the 2003 abduction of an Egyptian cleric.
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Egypt's Coptic Christians flee Sinai after deadly attacks

Saturday, February 25th 2017, 0:14

Islamic State militants have warned of more attacks on Egypt's Christian minority.
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Louvre attack: Suspect 'confirms' he is Egyptian Abdullah Hamamy

Tuesday, February 7th 2017, 13:32
related countries: France

The suspect confirms his identity and gives his version of events, French judicial sources say.
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Louvre attack: Friend defends 'respectful' suspect

Sunday, February 5th 2017, 17:22
related countries: France
related places: Paris

Social media updates by the Egyptian suspected of launching a machete attack at a Paris museum suggested nothing untoward, says his friend.
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Louvre attack: Egyptian man, 29, believed to be assailant

Friday, February 3rd 2017, 22:16

The man, who tried to attack soldiers with machetes, is thought to have travelled on a tourist visa.
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'I sold my house' to emigrate to US, says Iraqi man with visa

Sunday, January 29th 2017, 14:50
related countries: Iraq, United States
related places: Cairo

Iraqi Fuad Suleman and his family were turned back when they tried to board a connecting flight to the US from Cairo.
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Egypt activist 'tortured for his T-shirt'

Wednesday, January 25th 2017, 17:01

Mahmoud Hussein, 21, describes how he came to be arrested in Egypt, and what happened to him in detention.
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No regrets

Wednesday, January 25th 2017, 2:38

Six years since the outbreak of the revolution in Egypt, human rights campaigners says the situation in the country is far worse, Orla Guerin reports.
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Egypt court upholds ruling halting transfer of islands to Saudi Arabia

Monday, January 16th 2017, 11:18
related countries: Saudi Arabia

Cheers erupt as judge rejects move by Egypt's government to transfer two islands to Saudi Arabia.
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Egypt police station suicide attack kills eight in Sinai

Monday, January 9th 2017, 11:09

At least eight people are dead after a police station is bombed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.
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Egypt youth activist Ahmed Maher released from prison

Thursday, January 5th 2017, 11:00

Egyptian activist Ahmed Maher, one of the leaders of the 2011 uprising, is released from prison.
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Egypt official accused of corruption 'kills himself'

Monday, January 2nd 2017, 15:36

A top Egyptian official arrested over a corruption investigation has killed himself, reports say.
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EgyptAir crash: Bodies of crew members returned to families

Saturday, December 31st 2016, 16:02

Egypt begins handing over to families the bodies from May's EgyptAir crash that killed all 66 on board.
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Cairo cathedral bombing: IS claims responsibility for attack

Tuesday, December 13th 2016, 20:42

So-called Islamic State claims responsibility for a bomb attack on a church in which 25 were killed.
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Cairo church bombing: Eyewitnesses describe fatal attack

Sunday, December 11th 2016, 15:59
related places: Cairo

Eyewitnesses describe the attack on a Coptic Christian cathedral complex in the Egyptian capital Cairo, which has killed at least 25 people.
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Cairo bombing: Cairo Coptic Christian complex hit

Sunday, December 11th 2016, 15:51
related places: Cairo

A bomb explosion in the Coptic Christian cathedral complex in Egypt's capital kills at least 25.
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Cairo church bombing: Amateur footage shows aftermath

Sunday, December 11th 2016, 13:51
related places: Cairo

Amateur footage reveals the anger and devastation inside a church in the Egyptian capital Cairo, after a bomb blast left at least 25 people dead.
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India doctor to operate on '500kg' Egyptian woman

Wednesday, December 7th 2016, 15:05
related countries: India

An Egyptian woman, said to weigh 500kg, is to be airlifted to India for weight reduction surgery.
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Egypt arrests 'organ trafficking ring'

Tuesday, December 6th 2016, 14:13

Egypt arrests 25 people, including doctors and nurses, accused of illegal organ trafficking.
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Migrant crisis: Europol to investigate Egypt mass drowning

Tuesday, December 6th 2016, 12:01

A Reuters-BBC Newsnight investigation into a mass migrant sinking prompts Europol to “look again”.
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Sinai checkpoint car bomb kills eight Egyptian soldiers

Thursday, November 24th 2016, 22:50

Eight Egyptian soldiers were killed in a car bomb attack on a checkpoint in the North Sinai region.
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Egypt ancient city unearthed by archaeologists

Thursday, November 24th 2016, 10:37

Archaeologists in Egypt unearth what they describe as a city that dates back more than 5,000 years.
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Egypt court quashes Mohammed Morsi life sentence

Tuesday, November 22nd 2016, 10:32

An Egyptian court overturns a life sentence handed down to ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
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Egypt journalists' union head gets two-year jail term

Saturday, November 19th 2016, 12:35

The head of the journalists' union in Egypt gets a two-year prison term for "harbouring fugitives".
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Ancient Egypt crocodile surprise at Dutch museum

Friday, November 18th 2016, 12:50
related countries: Netherlands

New 3D scan of Egyptian crocodile mummy shows dozens of baby reptiles inside.
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