Telegraph.co.uk | Italian student missing in Egypt likely dead: Italian foreign ministry Reuters 25, the five-year anniversary of the 2011 uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule. Tensions were high in Egypt in the run-up to the anniversary, with police detaining activists and warning people not to demonstrate. No significant protests ... Italy Urges Egypt to Investigate Fate of Italian Student |
BBC News | Egypt overturns death sentences for 149 Muslim Brotherhood supporters BBC News An Egyptian court has overturned the death sentences of 149 supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group and ordered a retrial. The defendants were convicted of carrying out a 2013 attack on a police station in Kerdasa, near Cairo, in which at ... Egypt overturns death sentences for 149 Islamists Egypt court overturns mass death sentences Egypt: Security forces kill two Islamist extremists in Cairo clashes |
Fox News | Ancient 4500-year-old boat discovered in Egypt Fox News Archaeologists from the Charles University in Prague have unearthed a 4,500-year-old 59-foot boat at a site in Egypt. While working at the site of the Abusir necropolis near Cairo the archaeologists discovered 4,500-year-old wooden planks that formed ... Archaeologists discover 4500-year-old boat buried under tomb from Ancient Egypt Archaeologists uncover 4500-year-old funeral boat from Ancient Egypt — and it's 'extraordinarily' preserved Archeologists Find a Rare 4500-Year-Old Egyptian Funerary Boat |
Voice of America | South Sudan Rebel Leader Visits Egypt Voice of America South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar visits Egypt Wednesday at the invitation of Egyptian leader Abel Fattah El Sissi. Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, secretary for foreign affairs of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-In Opposition, said talks will center ... |
International Business Times | Why The Middle East's Largest Christian Community Is Fleeing Egypt International Business Times Egyptian churches across New York and New Jersey have seen their communities swell in recent years as Egypt has faced political turmoil, a slumping economy and a growing militant insurgency. The exodus has intensified fears for the future for ... |
Al-Monitor | Egypt fills its prisons, but don't worry, it'll make more Al-Monitor Egypt is experiencing an assault on the freedoms of opinion and expression at the hands of security services, under the pretext of safeguarding national security, as per a statement published by the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information. The ... |
Ahram Online | Egypt's committee on Ethiopian dam to finish technical report this week Ahram Online Egyptian Minister of Irrigation Hossam Moghazi announced on Wednesday that ministry experts in the national tripartite committee on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam would conclude their reports about the French firms' technical offers later this week. |
Vox | Egypt's decades-long war on college kids Vox Egypt's Interior Ministry admitted last week that at least 3,462 university students are currently imprisoned in Egypt. As Middle East history professor Howard Eissenstat noted, that's more than the entire student body of some US colleges, including ... David Ignatius: Clinton proves prescient on Egypt Five Years After the Revolution: Curing Egypt's Corruption |
Al-Arabiya | Egypt and Russia: Do they really understand each other? Al-Arabiya Egypt has also granted Russia land in Suez for its industrial zone construction and has invited Russia to join its oil fields exploration. Among other things, Egypt asked for an increase in the number of flights between Moscow and destinations in Egypt ... Egypt To Buy Russian Jets In Deal That May Revive Tourism Egyptian minister hopes flights btw Egypt, Russia to resume before end-June Warmer days ahead? Egypt-Russian agreements signal strengthening of economic ties |
Does Egypt's Law Protect 'Short-Term Brides' Or Formalize Trafficking? NPR Egypt has an unusual law known as the "seasonal marriage" law, and the government says it's aimed at helping the many poor families who resort to selling their daughters into temporary or long-term marriages with wealthy, older foreign men to support ... |