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/ 11 February 2008
Girls wearing the Egyptian flag instead of the veil danced among tens of thousands in the streets of Cairo on Sunday night after their national team won a record-breaking sixth Africa Cup of Nations. Crowds of people wearing the national flag colours of red, black and white erupted with screams of joy as the final whistle blew, some lighting handheld fireworks.
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/ 10 October 2007
Dozens of families, many of them empty-handed, returned on Wednesday to a bombed-out Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon that was the scene of 15 weeks of fierce battles between the army and Islamist militants. Buses and mini-vans hired by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency picked up the first families from the Beddawi refugee camp.
Egyptian investigators have found connections between the deadly bombings in Sharm el-Sheikh and another wave of attacks last October on Sinai resorts further north, security sources said on Wednesday. A senior police source also said Egypt was warned following the July 7 London bombings that the Red Sea resort could be targeted.
Egyptian police exchanged fire with gunmen on Monday as they hunted for six Pakistanis suspected of involvement in Saturday’s deadly bombings in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Pakistani authorities said they have yet to be approached by their Egyptian counterparts about the six suspects.
At a school in a popular district of Cairo, a man urges Egyptians to vote on a key electoral reform, crying ”Your vote matters! Say yes to democracy” — but many polling stations on Wednesday remained deserted amid opposition calls for a boycott of the referendum to allow for Egypt’s first-ever contested presidential race.
Mohammed Wardi, the popular Sudanese singer whose soaring “golden throat” voice has come to embody the spirit of an entire nation and who recently made a triumphant return from years in exile, is in a defiant mood these days. The 70-year-old Wardi, billed on world music stations as Sudan’s “grandfather of funk,” returned home last […]
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak returns to the Middle East’s centre stage this week when he puts forward a peace plan during summit talks in Camp David.