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  Egypt tests black box recorders of crashed EgyptAir flight

  World | June 20, 2016 8:29 IST

  Cairo: The Egyptian Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee is running electrical tests on the recovered black box recorders of crashed EgyptAir Flight MS804, the committee said in a statement on Sunday. Under the supervision of Egyptian

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  Egypt’s Morsi sentenced to life over espionage charges

  World | June 18, 2016 19:21 IST

  Cairo: Former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi was on Saturday handed down life imprisonment by a Cairo criminal court on charges of espionage. The sentencing of Morsi came during the final ruling in the trial of

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  Missing Egypt Air flight's wreckage found in Mediterranean

  World | June 16, 2016 7:46 IST

  Cairo: Egyptian investigators have said that they have spotted and obtained images from the wreckage of the plane flying from Paris to Cairo that crashed into the Mediterranean last month, killing all 66 people on

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  At hault due to bomb threat, EgyptAir plane resumes flight to China

  World | June 08, 2016 17:18 IST

  Cairo: A plane carrying 118 passengers and 17 crew members, enroute to Beijing from Cairo was forced to land in Uzbekistan after Egyptians officials received a threat about a bomb on the plane. All

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  17-year-old dies during female circumcision; authorities shut down hospital, prosecute doctor

  World | June 02, 2016 12:39 IST

  Cairo: A 17-year-old girl has died while undergoing female circumcision in Egypt, prompting health authorities to shut down the hospital and refer doctors for prosecution, a senior health official said Tuesday. The centuries-old practice, believed

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  EgyptAir Flight-804: Submarine headed to plane crash site, says President

  World | May 22, 2016 22:57 IST

  Cairo: Egypt’s president said on Sunday a submarine belonging to his country’s Oil Ministry was headed to the site of the crash of EgyptAir Flight-804 in the eastern Mediterranean to join the search for the

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  Smoke, cockpit woes signal chaotic Mediterranean end for EgyptAir plane

  World | May 22, 2016 10:02 IST

  Cairo: Leaked flight data showing trouble in the cockpit and smoke in a plane lavatory are bringing into focus the chaotic final moments of EgyptAir Flight 804, including a three-minute period before contact was lost

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  'Smoke detected' inside cabin before EgyptAir crash: Reports

  World | May 21, 2016 12:08 IST

  Cairo: Smoke alerts were triggered inside the cabin of the ill-fated EgyptAir jet minutes before it plunged into the Mediterranean Sea with 66 people on board, according to new details emerging shortly after human remains,

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  Egyptian plane carrying 66 passengers crashes in Mediterranean Sea

  World | May 19, 2016 19:50 IST

  Egypt: An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers is most likely crashed into the sea, said Ihab Raslan, a spokesman for the Egyptian civil aviation authority, according to a report by the

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  Sri Lanka, Egypt indicate interest in indigenous Tejas Combat Aircraft

  India | April 19, 2016 11:35 IST

  New Delhi: India's Light Combat Aircraft Tejas, which was several years in the making, has now caught the attention of foreign buyers with Sri Lanka and Egypt evincing interest in the indigenously built fighter jet.

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  British man's selfie with EgyptAir hijacker goes viral

  World | March 30, 2016 9:46 IST

  A man who posted a smiling selfie with the EgyptAir hijacker and which went viral on the social media has been identified as a 26-year-old Briton.

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  EgyptAir hijacker used ‘fake suicide belt’ made of iPhone cases, say authorities

  World | March 29, 2016 23:03 IST

  Cairo: The Egyptian who hijacked a domestic EgyptAir flight today and forced it to land in Cyprus pulled off the entire act wearing a fake explosives belt that had nothing but iPhone cases in it,

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  EgyptAir hijacker identified as Seif El Din Mustafa, Egypt Foreign Min calls him ‘stupid’

  World | March 29, 2016 17:50 IST

  Cairo/Nicosia: The hijacker of the EgyptAir plane which was on a domestic flight and later landed in Cyprus has been identified as Seif El Din Mustafa, Egyptian authorities said. According to reports, Seif is an

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  EgyptAir ordeal ends; hijacker arrested, all passengers safe

  World | March 29, 2016 19:12 IST

  Unidentified hijackers seized an Egyptian airliner today and diverted it to Cyprus, where it landed at Larnaca airport on the south coast.

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  Egypt kills 19 militants in Sinai

  World | March 27, 2016 8:13 IST

  Cairo:The Egyptian army killed 19 militants south of Sheikh Zuweid city in the restive North Sinai province on Saturday, the state-run Al-Ahram news website reported. The security forces also arrested six terrorist suspects and destroyed

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  60 terrorists killed in army raids in Egypt's North Sinai

  World | March 26, 2016 6:57 IST

  Cairo: As many as 60 terrorists were on Friday killed and 40 others injured in army raids in Egypt's two restive North Sinai cities, army said. Anti-terror forces, backed by military warplanes, attacked terrorists hideouts

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  Meet the Muslim who loves Donald Trump

  World | February 22, 2016 13:50 IST

  Myrtle Beach: A 62 year old Egyptian emigrant to America has lent his support to US republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump.Elhamy Ibrahim, who migrated to US in 1981, strongly backs Trump's proposal to ban Muslims

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  At least 200 million females estimated to be circumcised: United Nations

  World | February 05, 2016 9:48 IST

  United Nations: At least 200 million girls and women in 30 countries are estimated to have undergone female circumcision half of them in Egypt, Ethiopia and Indonesia, the U.N. children's agency said in a report

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  No bomb on Berlin-Egypt flight diverted to Hungary

  World | December 07, 2015 23:37 IST

  Budapest: Hungarian police on Monday said that no explosives have been found aboard an Egypt-bound plane that made an unscheduled landing in Hungary because of a bomb threat.Police spokeswoman Viktoria Csiszer-Kovacs told The Associated Press

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  Flight from Berlin to Egypt lands in Budapest on bomb threat

  World | December 07, 2015 19:31 IST

  Budapest, Hungary: Hungarian police say a flight from Berlin to the Egyptian beach resort of Hurghada has made an unscheduled landing in Hungary and is being checked for explosives after police received information about a