The Sudanese authorities say they have pinpointed the location at which 11 foreign tourists and their eight Egyptian guides are being held.
Read More »Egypt winds up landslide rescue
Rescue workers have ended a search for survivors in a Cairo slum where 10 days earlier a landslide buried dozens of homes, killing at least 90 people.
Read More »Talks with Palestinian groups continue in Cairo
Cairo – Egyptian Intelligence Chief Omar Soleiman will meet in Cairo with a delegation from the Palestine Democratic Union on Wednesday to discuss ways to end the inter-Palestinian conflict.
Read More »Sources: Israel won’t free more prisoners as a goodwill gesture to Abbas
RAMALLAH, A high-ranking Palestinian source revealed on Tuesday that Israel would not free more Palestinian prisoners from its jails as a goodwill gesture to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.
Read More »Egypt school exam cheats jailed
A court in the Egyptian town of Minya has jailed 14 people for their involvement in a plot to leak details of important high school exam papers.
Read More »Arab FMs to discuss means of defusing inter-Palestinian crisis
CAIRO, Arab foreign ministers are expected to discuss means of healing the current inter-Palestinian rift during a meeting of Arab League (AL) Council set to open later on Monday.
Read More »Cairo rockslide death toll climbs
The death toll from a rockslide that crushed dozens of houses in Egypt’s capital, Cairo, has reached 43.
Read More »Egyptian Pres. attends funeral of former DM
Mubarak on Sunday headed the funeral services of former Defense Minister Mohammad Abdullah Abdulhalim Abu Ghazala who passed away at the age of 75 after a long fight against a chronic disease.
Read More »Fatah official: too early to talk about sending Arab forces in Gaza
RAMALLAH, Fatah movement’s spokesman in the West Bank Ahmed Abdel Rahman said on Sunday that it’s still premature to talk about bringing Arab forces to the Gaza Strip that is ruled by Hamas movement.
Read More »Workers clear path to access Cairo rock fall site
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian workers cut through a railway embankment on Sunday to bring heavy earth-moving equipment to the site of a rock fall which killed at least 31 people in a Cairo shantytown.
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