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Egypt offers broad support for Annapolis talks (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
read story   Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:14:59 GMT
Egypt offered broad support on Tuesday for peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians in the United States next week but again pressed for a firm timetable for setting up a Palestinian state.
Egypt-Israel summit ahead of peace meet (AFP via Yahoo! News)
read story   Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:19:39 GMT
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was meeting President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt on Tuesday in a bid to shore up Arab support for a US-sponsored peace conference later this month.

Israel 'reluctant' to see more Egypt troops on border (AFP via Yahoo! News)
read story   Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:53:27 GMT
Egypt has asked to renegotiate its peace treaty with Israel in order to deploy more troops along the border in a bid to stem arms smuggling into Gaza, an Israeli diplomatic source said on Tuesday.

Olmert goes to Egypt ahead of conference (AP via Yahoo! News)
read story   Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:30:23 GMT
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert flew to Egypt on Tuesday to try to drum up support from reluctant Arab states for an upcoming Mideast peace conference, after failing to bridge gaps in a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Olmert in Egypt for Mubarak talks (AFP via Yahoo! News)
read story   Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:45:30 GMT
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrived in Egypt on Tuesday for talks with President Hosni Mubarak ahead of a US-sponsored peace meeting, an AFP correspondent reported.

In Egypt, divorce every six minutes (Middle East Online)
read story   Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:15:17 GMT
Courts across Egypt rule on 240 divorces each day while a third of marriages breaking up in first year.

Israel 'reluctant' to see more Egypt troops on border (Middle East Times)
read story   Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:57:45 GMT
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AFP) Egypt has asked to renegotiate its peace treaty with Israel in order to deploy more troops along the border in a bid to stem arms smuggling into Gaza, an Israeli diplomatic source said on Tuesday.

Olmert holds talks in Egypt on peace conference (The Star--The People's Paper)
read story   Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:22:01 GMT
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, seeking wide Arab participation in next week's peace conference in the United States, held talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday.

1997 massacre changed Egypt's tourism (AP via Yahoo! News)
read story   Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:51:02 GMT
The attack a decade ago was stunning, and is still recalled with horror: Islamic militants with knives and automatic weapons killed 58 foreign tourists — mainly Germans, Swiss and Japanese — at one of Egypt's most popular pharaonic temples. Some of the bodies were mutilated.

Egypt Russia agrees to provide nuclear know-how (Khaleej Times)
read story   Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:10:17 GMT
CAIRO - Russia has agreed to provide nuclear know-how and technical expertise to Egypt to help Cairo with plans to build civilian nuclear power stations to meet growing energy needs, Egyptian state media said on Tuesday.