Egypt’s largest opposition movement demanded on Wednesday that President Hosni Mubarak dissolve the newly elected Parliament and hold new elections.
Legal experts and human rights activists are criticising Egypt for an abrupt spike in death sentences in recent months.
A day after giving birth to septuplets, a 27-year-old Egyptian woman said on Sunday she’s only seen her babies on television.
Egyptian scientists are carrying out DNA tests on two mummified foetuses found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun.
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/ 3 February 2006
An Egyptian ferry with about 1 400 people on board has disappeared from radar screens in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast, Egyptian maritime officials said on Friday. Helicopters have spotted bodies floating on the sea and one lifeboat carrying three people in the vicinity of where the ship was last seen on radar screens, officials said.
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/ 23 December 2005
The leader of Egypt’s main Islamic opposition group said the Holocaust is a ”myth”, and he slammed Western governments for criticising disclaimers of the Jewish genocide. The comments by Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohammed Mahdi Akef echoed remarks made recently by Iran’s hard-line president.
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/ 28 September 2005
Armed with an automatic rifle, the Egyptian guard, Ahmed, took shelter from the scorching sun in the ruins of an old border crossing. Nearby, a Palestinian teenager from the Gaza side of this poor border town emerged from a bushy trail that stretches across the buffer of clumsy barbed wire fences and guard posts. Then the 14-year-old, Salama, sneaked across the porous frontier, hauling a plastic bag.
Egyptians will vote in their first multi-candidate presidential election on September 7, according to an official announcement on Sunday. In a statement, the nation’s election committee said candidates can register their nominations starting on July 29 and that campaigning will begin on August 17 and end on September 4.
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/ 12 November 2004
The leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, who publicly accused Israel of killing Yasser Arafat, attended the Palestinian leader’s funeral on Friday in Cairo, in a rare public appearance for a man believed to be a walking target of the Israeli military.