ISMAILIA: Egypt has detained two men as it investigates allegations that they plotted to attack a foreign ship as it passed through the Suez Canal, the state news agency MENA reported on Wednesday, citing a security source.
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CAIRO: Egyptians who had surrounded the base of an international peacekeeping force in the Sinai Peninsula lifted their blockade on Wednesday after negotiations with the Egyptian authorities, a security source said.
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PORT SAID: Seventy-four people were killed when supporters clashed at an Egyptian soccer match, prompting fans and politicians on Thursday to turn on the ruling army for failing to prevent the deadliest incident since Hosni Mubarak was ousted.
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CAIRO: Four armed men attacked a hotel in an Egyptian Red Sea resort popular with Israeli holidaymakers before fleeing when police returned fire, security sources and witnesses said on Tuesday.
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CAIRO: Saboteurs blew up the gas pipeline between Egypt, Israel and Jordan on Thursday in Northern Sinai using remote controlled bombs, forcing it to shut down, Egyptian security sources said.
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CAIRO: Passengers were forced to escape on lifeboats when a fire broke out on a ferry carrying more than 1,200 passengers from the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba to Egypt on Thursday, a maritime official said.
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ISMAILIA: Dubai's port operator DP World shut down its Ain Sokhna port in Egypt on Thursday because of labor strikes that have cost it about LE 30 million ($5.02 million) in lost revenue, an official at the Red Sea port authority said.
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CAIRO: Shipping at Egypt's Suez Canal was unaffected by a strike by canal employees on Saturday, a Suez Canal Authority (SCA) official said.
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ISMAILIA: A group of drug smugglers have shot dead an Egyptian policeman in the Sinai Peninsula near Egypt's border with Israel, security and medical sources said on Thursday.
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ISMAILIA: The Suez Canal has been told that plans by two Iranian naval ships to cross the waterway were cancelled, an official said on Thursday, removing a potential policy headache for Egypt's new army rulers.
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CAIRO: Traffic through Egypt's Suez Canal has been disrupted since 0800 GMT on Tuesday after a ship ran aground due to engine failure in bad weather, a maritime source said.
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Egypt s annual revenue from the Suez Canal fell 7.2 percent in fiscal 2008/09 to $4.74 billion, the Suez Canal Authority Chairman Ahmed Fadel said on Sunday.
The canal, one of Egypt s top sources of foreign currency, earned a record $5.11 billion (...)