Egypt
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Egypt's Morsi faces fresh trial for 'insulting judiciary'
World | Jan 19, 2014, 10:12 PM ISTCairo: Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and 25 others, including liberal activists and journalists, will be tried for “insulting the judiciary”, the fourth case slapped on the Islamist leader. Attorney General Hisham Barakat has referred
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98.1 per cent voters in Egypt approve new constitution in referendum
World | Jan 19, 2014, 09:50 AM ISTCairo: An overwhelming 98.1 per cent of voters approved Egypt's new constitution in a nationwide referendum, widely seen as a vote on a likely presidential bid by army chief Gen Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.The Supreme Electoral
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Know about Egypt's latest terror suspect, puppet Abla Fahita
World | Jan 15, 2014, 06:31 AM ISTNew Delhi: Believe it or not, Egypt's prosecutors have not even spared toys and have accused them for spreading terrorism. The infamous Egypt puppet, Abla Fahita which features on television is the latest terror suspect.Abla
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Powerful bombing at Egypt police station kills 14
World | Dec 24, 2013, 04:17 PM ISTMansoura: A powerful explosion believed to be caused by a car bomb ripped through a police headquarters in a Nile Delta city north of Cairo early on Tuesday, killing 14 people and wounding more than
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Egypt forms panel to probe post-Morsi violence
World | Dec 23, 2013, 12:04 PM ISTCairo : Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour ordered to form a fact-finding committee to investigate the violence that broke out after the ouster of former president Mohamed Morsi, a state-run website reported.Mansour issued a presidential
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Egypt's Morsi faces trial for prison break, murder
World | Dec 21, 2013, 07:25 PM ISTCairo: Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and 132 others, including members of Hamas and Hezbollah, will face trial for a prison break and murder of police officers during the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak,
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Suicide car bomber kills 11 soldiers in Egypt
World | Nov 21, 2013, 07:08 AM ISTCairo: A suicide car bomb hit a bus convoy of off-duty Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday, killing 11 and wounding 37, in the latest of a stepped-up wave of attacks blamed on
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27 killed in train accident in Egypt
World | Nov 18, 2013, 08:53 PM ISTCairo: At least 27 people were killed and 32 injured when a freight train crashed into a mini-bus and a truck near Egypt's capital Cairo in the early hours of Monday, the head of the
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Football matches a security test for troubled Egypt
Football | Nov 09, 2013, 11:28 AM ISTCairo: Two international football matches, including a World Cup playoff, are set to take place in Egypt's turbulent capital, putting security there to the test after violent street protests and bloody security crackdowns followed a
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Kerry in Egypt on first visit since Morsi ouster
World | Nov 03, 2013, 04:44 PM ISTCairo: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was in Cairo on Sunday pressing for reforms during the highest-level American visit to Egypt since the ouster of the country's first democratically elected president. The Egyptian military's
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Judges in Egypt withdraw from Muslim Brotherhood chief Badei's trial
World | Oct 29, 2013, 09:33 PM ISTCairo: Judges presiding in a trial of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood leaders have stepped down from the proceedings without giving any reason for their move, a court official said.The official said the decision was announced by
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Ten hidden facts of Egypt's mysterious queen-Cleopatra
World | Oct 02, 2014, 08:55 AM ISTNew Delhi: No other queen of the ancient world carries with her the intrigue of Egypt's Queen Cleopatra. Her life, her romantic encounters have given her a magical appeal that has captivated the world ever since.Over
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Deadly Egyptian soccer riots of 2012
Football | Jan 28, 2014, 07:56 AM ISTNew Delhi: Soccer is the world's most popular Olympic sport, but in Port Said, Egypt, on 1st Feb, 2012, people who called themselves lovers of soccer turned their favourite game into an ugly one. The
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Egypt: 51 killed in new bout of street violence
World | Oct 07, 2013, 07:44 AM ISTCairo : Security forces and Islamist protesters clashed around the country Sunday, leaving 51 killed, as a national holiday celebrating the military turned to mayhem. Crowds from Egypt's two rival camps—supporters of the ousted Islamist
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Egypt to hold World Cup playoff in Cairo
Football | Sep 26, 2013, 02:04 PM ISTEgypt's national football team will play in Cairo for the first time in two years, and for a spot in the World Cup. The Egyptian football association decided Wednesday to hold the second leg of
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Egypt bans Muslim Brotherhood group
World | Sep 23, 2013, 09:30 PM ISTCairo: An Egyptian court on Monday ordered the Muslim Brotherhood to be banned and its assets confiscated in a dramatic escalation of a crackdown by the military-backed government against supporters of the ousted Islamist president
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Know about the secrets of sunken city of Egypt, Heracleion
World | Jun 22, 2014, 07:22 AM ISTNew Delhi: You must have heard about the Lost city of Atlantis which got submerged into the sea mysteriously and discovered by the archeologists in the recent past. But there is another interesting yet mysterious
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Egypt reopens Gaza border
World | Sep 19, 2013, 07:59 AM ISTGaza: Egypt reopened its Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip Wednesday after seven days of closure, allowing a limited number of people to leave and return to the Palestinian coastal enclave through its main border
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Egypt extends emergency laws
World | Sep 12, 2013, 08:31 PM ISTCairo: Egypt's interim president on Thursday extended a nationwide state of emergency by two months, citing security conditions.The nearly month-old state of emergency, which gives security forces greater powers of arrest, had been due to
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Egypt declares new supreme election commission
World | Sep 12, 2013, 09:12 AM ISTCairo: Egypt's interim President Adli Mansour issued a decree to form the Supreme Elections Commission (SEC), tasked with supervising parliamentary and presidential elections in the country.The SEC, presided by the head of Cairo Appeal Court,