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/ 26 December 2007

More bodies found in collapsed Egypt flats

The death toll from the collapse of a block of flats in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria has risen to 14, the official Mena news agency reported on Wednesday. The toll could climb even further as about 15 people remain trapped in the rubble of the flattened 12-storey building, a security official said on Tuesday.

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/ 25 December 2007

Egypt tower block collapse toll rises to eight

Rescue workers pulled three more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed block of flats in the Egyptian city of Alexandria overnight, bringing the toll to eight dead with many still missing, a security source said on Tuesday. Emergency services continued their search following Monday’s collapse of the 12-storey building.

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/ 24 December 2007

Apartment building collapses in Egypt

Five bodies were pulled from the ruins of a 12-storey apartment building that collapsed on Monday in the northern Egyptian port city of Alexandria, police said. Ambulances and civil defence teams rushed to the site of the collapse in the Loran district in the east of the coastal city and began rescue operations, a source said.

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/ 27 August 2007

Egypt’s Alexandria seeks second revival

Alexandria, the Egyptian coastal city where Cleopatra had love affairs with Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, is trying to regain some of its old glory as a tourism destination for European and Arab elites. This summer, a new luxury hotel opened on the site of a grand old establishment where Austrian archdukes and Egyptian khedives would gather for Viennese pastries or tennis a century ago.

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/ 4 May 2006

Jury spares Moussaoui from death penalty

A United States jury rejected the death penalty for al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui and ruled he should be jailed for life without parole for his role in the September 11 attacks conspiracy. True to his stormy and unpredictable character, Moussaoui shouted ”America you lost … I won”, as he was led from the court.

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/ 30 March 2006

Man gets 30 years for Bush-assassination plot

An American Muslim convicted of joining al-Qaeda and plotting to assassinate United States President George Bush was sentenced to 30 years behind bars by a judge who compared him to ”American Taliban” John Walker Lindh. Prosecutors had asked for the maximum for Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, a 25-year-old US citizen who was born to a Jordanian father and raised in Virginia.

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/ 31 January 2006

Tunisia trounced in Egypt

Monday was not a night for champions as reigning African Nations Cup holders Tunisia were trounced 3-0 by Guinea and ended up second in group C. At least they still have an interest in the tournament, whereas 1996 champions South Africa reached new depths as they were beaten 1-0 by Zambia.

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/ 31 January 2006

Bafana defeated again

Christopher Katongo scored on Monday to give Zambia a 1-0 win over South Africa, their first in group C of the African Cup of Nations. Katongo scored a 73rd-minute cross from Clive Hachilensa to hand South Africa, the 2010 World Cup hosts, their third straight defeat without scoring.

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/ 25 January 2006

Make or break for Bafana in Egypt

South Africa will be hard pressed to get a result in Egypt on Thursday against defending champions Tunisia if they are to go beyond the first round of the 2006 African Nations Cup. ”It will be a totally different team against Tunisia,” said coach Ted Dumitru after his team’s 2-0 loss to unfancied Guinea.

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/ 16 December 2004

Google victory in trademark lawsuit

Google won a major legal victory when a federal judge ruled that the search engine’s advertising policy does not violate federal trademark laws. Auto insurance giant Geico argued that Google should not be allowed to sell ads to rival insurance companies that appear whenever Geico’s name is typed into the Google search box.

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