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European tourists in stable condition after Egypt stabbing
HURGHADA, Egypt - Two Austrians and a Swede who were stabbed in an attack on a hotel in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Hurghada were only lightly wounded and in stable condition on Saturday, an Egyptian...
View ArticleAl-Jazeera sues Egypt over arrests, raids and seizures
CAIRO - Al-Jazeera is suing Egypt over its crackdown on the Qatar-owned broadcaster's activists and journalists following the 2013 overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, the network said...
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Egypt's top auditor faces backlash over corruption findings
CAIRO - Egypt's top auditor ignited an uproar when he estimated that corruption had cost the country billions of dollars. Yet the anger was not directed against the government or even long-established...
View ArticleEgyptian lawyer to sue NJ borough over UN residence denial
EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey - An attorney for the Egyptian government says they expect to sue after a northern New Jersey borough rejected plans to turn a building once owned by the Franciscan Friars...
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali, first UN chief from Africa, dies
CAIRO - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a veteran Egyptian diplomat who helped negotiate his country's landmark peace deal with Israel but then clashed with the United States when he served a single term as...
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Secret detentions, deaths raise alarm over Egyptian police
BENI SUEF, Egypt - The 32-year-old Egyptian government engineer disappeared in mid-January when, according to witnesses, masked police burst into his office in the southern city of Beni Suef and...
View ArticleEgypt regrets EU lawmakers' resolution over Italian's death
CAIRO - Egypt's Foreign Ministry has expressed regret over the European Parliament's resolution calling for the suspension of cooperation with Cairo over the case of an Italian student who was believed...
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Egypt media says country is facing Euro-Islamist conspiracy
CAIRO - Egyptian media and lawmakers have accused the Muslim Brotherhood of bribing European Parliament members to adopt a resolution stating a "grave concern" that Egyptian authorities might be...
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Rights group calls on Egypt to reverse blasphemy conviction
CAIRO - Human Rights Watch on Monday called on Egypt to drop prison sentences against four Coptic Christian teenagers convicted of blasphemy, an appeal made one day after the justice minister was...
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Egypt's president under unusually stinging criticism at home
CAIRO - Criticism of Egypt's president has gathered momentum in recent weeks as Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's honeymoon in power appears to be ending.
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Egyptian president promises Italy truth in death of student
ROME - Egypt's president has promised that investigators will work "night and day" to locate and prosecute those responsible for the torture and killing of an Italian student, insisting that the crime...
View ArticleEgypt retires 14 judges, alleging support for Islamists
CAIRO - Egypt's state-run news agency says the top judicial disciplinary council has forced 14 judges into early retirement for allegedly supporting the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group.
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Blasphemy cases rise in Egypt and Christians bear the brunt
NASSARIYA, Egypt - In the video, the Egyptian Christian teens laugh playfully as a couple of them kneel down, imitating Muslim prayers, then another slides his hand under one boy's neck, imitating the...
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Hijack drama ends in Cyprus with arrest of 'unstable' man
LARNACA, Cyprus - A man described as "psychologically unstable" hijacked a flight Tuesday from Egypt to Cyprus and threatened to blow it up. His explosives turned out to be fake, and he surrendered...
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Egypt's abuses, crackdown on critics draw world attention
CAIRO - Nearly three years into a crackdown overseen by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, allegations of human rights abuses including killings, torture and secret detentions are starting to bring an...
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Prominent al-Qaida figure killed in US drone strike in Syria
BEIRUT - A senior Egyptian al-Qaida figure fighting in Syria was killed in a U.S. drone strike this week, the latest to be killed in such attacks in Syria, a Syrian opposition monitoring group and...
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AP Analysis: Arab democracies? Not so fast, say some
CAIRO - A new-old idea is rattling around the Middle East five years after the Arab Spring stirred democratic ambition: that restoring stability, especially if accompanied by some economic and...
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Egypt protests after el-Sissi gives islands to Saudi Arabia
CAIRO - Egyptian security forces arrested dozens and fired tear gas Friday at thousands of demonstrators protesting President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's decision to hand over two Red Sea islands to Saudi...
View ArticleRegeni murder casts shadow on French President's Egypt visit
CAIRO - Hours after French President Francois Hollande landed in Egypt Sunday on a visit his hosts say will deepen "distinct and strong" ties, he and his Egyptian counterpart differed publicly over...
View ArticleSomali leaders give condolences on report of many drowned
MOGADISHU, Somalia - The leaders of Somalia issued a joint condolence message to the nation Monday over an unconfirmed report that some migrants may have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea on a trip from...
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