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Calls for Egypt to end FGM after death of teenager - BBC News Fri, 03 Jun 2016 23:09:25 GMT

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Calls for Egypt to end FGM after death of teenager
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Calls for Egypt to end FGM after death of teenager. 4 hours ago. Campaign groups and the United Nations are calling for tougher action by the Egyptian government to end female genital mutilation following the death of a teenage girl. The girl's mother ...
Egyptian Teen Dies From Female Genital Mutilation Performed By DoctorHuffington Post

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Team testing new scanner on Egypt's Great Pyramid - Fox News Fri, 03 Jun 2016 16:15:00 GMT

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Team testing new scanner on Egypt's Great Pyramid
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CAIRO — What mysteries might still be hidden under Egypt's pyramids? A team accompanied by Egypt's former antiquities minister and famed archaeologist Zahi Hawass are testing a new scanner on the Great Pyramid of Giza, hoping that modern technology ...

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Lawyer: Egypt Can't Be Trusted to Respect Hijacker's Rights - ABC News Fri, 03 Jun 2016 15:04:35 GMT

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Lawyer: Egypt Can't Be Trusted to Respect Hijacker's Rights
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A lawyer for an Egyptian airline hijacker fighting extradition from Cyprus argued Friday that his client would not receive a fair trial in Egypt because its government was undemocratic and could not be trusted. Seif Eddin Mustafa fears he will face ...
Lawyer: Egypt's fair trial pledge for hijacker 'just words'The Daily Star

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Egypt court sentences 187 Morsi supporters to life in prison - Press TV Fri, 03 Jun 2016 14:54:13 GMT

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Egypt court sentences 187 Morsi supporters to life in prison
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An Egyptian court has sentenced nearly 200 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted President Mohamed Morsi to life in prison on charges of storming and killing security personnel during an attack on a police station in 2013. On Thursday, the ...
Egypt Military Court Sentences 187 to Life Amid Rise in ReferralsAllAfrica.com

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Astrologer on Egypt TV predicts world's end, chaos ensues - The Times of Israel Fri, 03 Jun 2016 20:29:19 GMT

The Times of Israel
Astrologer on Egypt TV predicts world's end, chaos ensues
The Times of Israel
On Egypt's Alhadas Elyoum chat show last week, Ahmad Shaheen said the world would end in 2037. Fellow guest Sheikh Mohammad Al-Mallah declared Shaheen a charlatan, accused him of claiming that he was a god, threw his pen at him, and tried to ...

Rare look at Egypt's sunken cities - BBC News Thu, 02 Jun 2016 23:43:46 GMT

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Rare look at Egypt's sunken cities
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Rare look at Egypt's sunken cities. 3 June 2016 Last updated at 00:30 BST. More than twelve centuries ago, two Greco-Egyptian cities sank into the Nile Delta off the coast of Egypt. Now, thanks to underwater excavation, the public has the chance to see ...

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Ancient Egypt's perfectly preserved underwater cities, and how they were discovered - New Statesman Fri, 03 Jun 2016 11:49:22 GMT

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Ancient Egypt's perfectly preserved underwater cities, and how they were discovered
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Dr Damian Robinson, director of the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology, is a member of the discovery team. The treasures he and his team found are the subject of a new exhibition, Sunken Cities: Egypt's Lost Worlds, at the British museum. “In 1933 ...

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Egypt wants Kenya diplomat fired over 'fabricated' racism charge - Al-Arabiya Fri, 03 Jun 2016 18:30:57 GMT

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Egypt wants Kenya diplomat fired over 'fabricated' racism charge
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Egypt on Friday demanded the dismissal of a Kenyan diplomat over her "fabricated" charge that an Egyptian official had referred to sub-Saharan Africans as "dogs and slaves" during a conference in Nairobi. "Intensive investigations conducted by the ...
Egypt rejects 'dogs and slaves' claim, demands resignation of accuserAhram Online

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Scientists working to unlock secrets beneath Egypt's pyramids - CBS News Thu, 02 Jun 2016 22:15:00 GMT

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Scientists working to unlock secrets beneath Egypt's pyramids
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CAIRO -- What mysteries might still be hidden under Egypt's pyramids? A team accompanied by Egypt's former antiquities minister and famed archaeologist Zahi Hawass are testing a new scanner on the Great Pyramid of Giza on Thursday, hoping that ...

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Millions of tourists too scared to visit these countries - CNNMoney Thu, 02 Jun 2016 12:30:06 GMT

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Millions of tourists too scared to visit these countries
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Millions of travelers have been nixing their dreams of visiting places like the pyramids in Egypt and the Tunisian coast due to heightened terrorism concerns. Here are the countries that are among the worst hit: Egypt. The prospects for Egypt's vital ...

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