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Mubarak's son Alaa speaks on Algeria soccer row
CAIRO: President Hosni Mubarak's elder son Alaa called for a tough stand amid an escalating diplomatic row following the loss to Algeria in a World Cup qualification playoff, as angry soccer fans rioted long into the night and early Friday near the (...)

20 - 11 - 2009
Egypt finds hashish in train crash driver's blood
CAIRO: The Egyptian official investigating last month s deadly train accident says traces of hashish have been found in the conductor s blood. The official said Saturday that the conductor will now also be charged with driving under the (...)

15 - 11 - 2009
Egypt to invite Palestinians for final talks
CAIRO: Egypt said Thursday that it will invite rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas to Cairo in late October for a final round of talks that it believes will result in a signed reconciliation agreement. The Gaza Strip s Hamas rulers and (...)

02 - 10 - 2009
Egypt charges 13 with promoting Shiism
CAIRO: An Egyptian official says a Shia cleric and 12 others has been accused of receiving funds from Iran to promoting extremist Shia doctrine in Sunni-dominated Egypt. Shias form a small minority in Egypt, where Sunni Islam is the official (...)

04 - 09 - 2009
In Rafah, despair and hope at the border
RAFAH, Egypt: Packed into the station wagon, under the dozens of boxes of blankets, clothing and food, is the casket bearing the body of Hanan Abu Traz's 20-year-old daughter, Sabreen. Together, they arrived in Egypt about two weeks ago - a (...)

19 - 01 - 2009
Charges against Israeli lawmaker in Mubarak remark
CAIRO: An Egyptian lawyer has launched a lawsuit against an Israeli lawmaker who slammed the Arab country s president over not coming to visit Israel. An official at the general prosecutor s office says the lawyer, Galal Khalil Abdel-Rahman, (...)

04 - 11 - 2008
New Al-Qaeda in Iraq tape calls for month-long offensive
CAIRO: A man claiming to be the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq vowed in an audiotape released Saturday to launch a month-long offensive against US troops. There was no independent confirmation that the voice belonged to Abu Hamza Al-Muhajir, also (...)

20 - 04 - 2008
Child workers a growing problem as food prices rise
CAIRO: Each day, 14-year-old Ali Abdel-Nasser works at a brick factory on the outskirts of Cairo, loading a donkey cart with new bricks to be taken to a nearby furnace to dry. He has worked at the plant almost every day for the last four years, (...)

04 - 04 - 2008
Authorities end search for 3 Russian divers in Red Sea
CAIRO: Egyptian police have halted their search for three missing Russian divers in the Red Sea, an official said Monday, but a private diving rescue service said it will continue the search for another day.The divers went missing in the Red Sea (...)

27 - 11 - 2007
Turkey's foreign minister discusses possible Turkish incursion in Iraq with Egyptian president
CAIRO: Turkey s foreign minister held talks with the Egyptian president on Thursday to explain his government s plan to send troops into northern Iraq to fight Kurdish guerrilla groups. Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said his country was drawing up (...)

19 - 10 - 2007
Abbas meets Mubarak, calls Hamas siezure of Gaza "destructive"
ALEXANDRIA: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip was destructive to the quest for a Palestinian state and reiterated his rejection of any talks with the insurgent group. Abbas made the comments after (...)

08 - 08 - 2007
Witness in Egyptian engineer's spying for Israel trial says the accused took documents illegally
Associated Press CAIRO: A witness testifying in the trial of an Egyptian nuclear engineer charged with spying for Israel said Sunday that the accused obtained documents which were potentially harmful to Egypt illegally and passed them on to (...)

12 - 06 - 2007
Egypt resumes military trial of top Muslim Brotherhood members
Associated Press CAIRO: A military trial of 40 senior members of Egypt s most powerful opposition group who are charged with terrorism and money laundering resumed Sunday, the group s attorney and a court official said. The trial is part of an (...)

05 - 06 - 2007
Fatah representative says his group won't hold talks with Hamas in Cairo
Associated Press CAIRO: A top Fatah official said Sunday that the moderate Palestinian group would not meet with the militant Hamas faction while in Cairo to discuss the security situation in the Palestinian territories with Egyptian (...)

30 - 05 - 2007
Conscript who refused to guard Israeli embassy receives six-month prison sentence
Associated Press CAIRO: A court has sentenced a policeman to six months in prison after convicting him of insubordination for refusing to guard the Israeli embassy, a court official said Sunday. Mohammed Khalaf Hasan, 38, was imprisoned after (...)

26 - 02 - 2007
In Egypt, heavy-metal music is making a quiet comeback
Associated Press CAIRO: The music was loud and the tattooed fans were wild, dancing and swaying in flashing strobe lights to the crashing sounds of heavy-metal songs. Suddenly, the music stopped. The band leader grasped the mike and announced: It (...)

18 - 08 - 2006
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