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Egypt Mourns Coptic Church Attack Victims

Funerals have been held in Alexandria for victims of one of the two bomb attacks on Coptic churches in Egypt by...

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Egypt Police Kill 7 Suspected IS Followers

Egypt security forces have killed seven suspected Islamic State group sympathisers thought to be planning attacks...

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Egypt Under Emergency Rule After Church Attacks

Hundreds gathered Monday to mourn 45 Egyptian Christians killed in jihadist bombings just a week before Easter, after...

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‘IS’ Rocket Fired From Egypt Hits Israel, Crossing Shut

A rocket fired from Egypt's Sinai crashed into Israel on Monday, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist...

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Egypt Set For Emergency Rule After Church Attacks

Egypt prepared to impose a state of emergency Monday after jihadist bombings killed dozens at two churches in the...

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Pressed In Iraq and Syria, IS Lashes Out In Egypt

The twin bombings of churches in Egypt suggest that Islamic State group jihadists are lashing out as they find...

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At Least 15 Dead In Egypt Church Bombing

A bomb blast at a church north of Cairo killed at least 15 people and wounded dozens who had gathered for Palm Sunday...

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New Documentary On Egypt’s Jon Stewart Follows Arab Spring Turmoil

Not long ago, the Egyptian heart surgeon-turned-comedian Bassem Youssef was hosting the most popular political satire...

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Trump To ‘reboot’ US-Egypt Ties With Sisi Meeting

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi is to visit the White House for the first time since he led the military's...

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Trump Welcomes Egypt’s Sisi Amid Questions On Rights Record

US President Donald Trump meets his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Washington on Monday, welcoming a...

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Egypt’s ‘fantastic Guy’ Sisi To Meet Donald Trump

After four years of tension with the United States, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi now has a fan in the White...

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Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak Freed After Six Years In Detention

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been freed from detention, six years after being overthrown. Mr Mubarak...

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Ousted Egypt President Mubarak Freed From Detention

Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian autocrat toppled during the 2011 Arab Spring, left a military hospital on Friday...

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Where Are the Leaders Now?

What happened to the leaders whose power was challenged in the so-called Arab Spring that began in late 2010? Here is a...

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Hosni Mubarak, Symbol of Dashed Hopes, Goes Free

In six years, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak has gone from symbolising the hubris of Middle East dictators swept away by the...

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Cairo Blast Kills Egyptian Man

An explosion killed an Egyptian man on Friday in Cairo, the interior ministry said. The blast in the Maadi district,...

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Ousted Egypt President Hosni Mubarak Freed From Detention

Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak left a military hospital on Friday where he had spent much of the last six years...

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Ousted Egypt President Hosni Mubarak Freed From Detention

Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak was freed today from a military hospital after spending six years in detention...

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An Egypt Court Is To Reopen A Corruption Probe Into Mubarak

An Egyptian court ordered on Thursday a renewed corruption probe into ousted president Hosni Mubarak, who has been...