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/ 11 February 2008

Flags, not veils as Cairo celebrates

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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/ 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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/ 22 November 2007

Arab leaders in Egypt ahead of peace meeting

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was hosting a summit with the Palestinian and Jordanian leaders on Thursday as Arab foreign ministers mull whether to join a United States-sponsored peace conference next week. Mubarak met Jordan’s King Abdullah II in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to discuss preparations for the conference.

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/ 5 November 2007

Egypt ruling party gives secretary general new term

Egypt’s ruling party gave ageing politician Safwat el-Sherif another term as party secretary general on Monday, ending speculation that President Hosni Mubarak’s son Gamal might take that position. Sherif (73) has been near the top of the National Democratic Party (NDP) since its foundation in 1977 and has been secretary general since 2002.