CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced a 17-year-old Christian boy to three years in jail for publishing cartoons on his Facebook page that mocked Islam and the Prophet Mohamed, actions that sparked sectarian violence.
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CAIRO: Egypt began the trial on Sunday of former Prime Minister Atef Ebeid and other officials accused of illegally selling an island nature reserve to a businessman close to deposed president Hosni Mubarak.
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Dozens of Egyptian protestors descended upon the Saudi Arabian embassy in Giza today to protest the poor treatment that illegally detained Egyptian pilgrims received at the Jeddah Airport.
Saudi Arabian Airlines cancelled flights to Cairo, (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian police detained the brother of Al Qaeda no. 2 Ayman Al-Zawahri on Sunday, days after he had been released as part of an amnesty extended to political prisoners, lawyers representing him said.
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CAIRO: Egyptian authorities have charged a nuclear engineer at the state s Atomic Energy Agency with spying for Israel, along with two fugitive foreigners - an Irishman and a Japanese, a government statement said on Tuesday.
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