Tag: Egypt
Residents clash with police after Cairo rock slide
Residents hurl stones and insults at authorities for "inefficient" rescue efforts after a massive rock slide buried whole families.[MORE]
Hundreds feared trapped in Egypt rockslide
Up to 200 people are feared trapped after a massive rockslide hit a shantytown in Cairo.[MORE]
22 killed in Cairo landslide
Twenty-two people were killed and 23 injured when a rockslide hit a shanty town in Cairo, security sources said.[MORE]
Egypt tycoon charged with ordering hit on pop star
Egyptian tycoon Hisham Talaat Mustafa was charged overnight with paying $US2 million for the brutal killing of Lebanese pop singer Suzanne Tamim, reportedly his one-time lover.[MORE]
Ancient burial chamber found in Egypt
Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered the burial chamber and coffin of King Senusret II who was believed to have ruled Egypt from 1897 BC to 1878 BC, the official MENA news agency reported.[MORE]
Egypt re-opens Gaza Strip border for 2 days
Egypt has opened its border crossing with the Gaza Strip, allowing more than 2,500 people to leave the Hamas-controlled territory and about 1,000 to enter, Palestinian officials said.[MORE]
Hundreds leave Gaza as Egypt opens border
Egypt opened its border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Saturday, allowing hundreds of people to leave the Hamas-controlled territory, Palestinian officials said.[MORE]
Fire guts Egypt's parliament, injures 10
More than a dozen fire engines and military helicopters battled a massive fire that gutted the main building of Egypt's upper house of parliament yesterday and injured at least 10 people.[MORE]
Venice Film Fest to pay homage to Chahine
This year's Venice Film Festival will be dedicated to Egyptian director Youssef Chahine, who died on July 27 aged 82.[MORE]
10 killed in Egyptian minibus accident
A minibus rammed into the back of a truck carrying steel bars north of Cairo yesterday, killing 10 people including a three-year-old boy.[MORE]
'Miracle' woman gives birth to septuplets in Egypt
An Egyptian woman has given birth to a set of septuplets in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, in what doctors termed "a miracle," the official MENA news agency has reported.[MORE]
Egypt to test foetuses for Tutankhamun family tree
Egyptian scientists are doing DNA tests on stillborn children found in the tomb of the Pharoah Tutankhamun in the hope of identifying their mother and grandmother, who may be the powerful queen Nefertiti, Egypt's chief archaeologist says.[MORE]
Not my fault, says organiser of ill-fated bus tour
A tour organiser has told a coronial inquest in Melbourne that he was not responsible a bus crash in Egypt two years ago.[MORE]
Legendary Egyptian filmmaker Chahine dies
Arab cinema's most celebrated director, Egypt's Youssef Chahine, has died.[MORE]
Five acquitted in 2006 Egypt ferry disaster
Five of six defendants in Egypt's worst maritime disaster have been acquitted, with only one person found guilty of failing to help in the 2006 ferry sinking which claimed 1,0000 lives.[MORE]
New camera peeps at pharaoh's 'solar' boat
Egypt has revealed a unique way of viewing a wooden boat entombed 4,500 years ago next to Giza's Great Pyramid.[MORE]
Egyptian men blame women for sexual harassment: survey
Nearly two-thirds of Egyptian men admit to having sexually harassed women in the most populous Arab country and a majority say women themselves are to blame for their maltreatment, a survey shows.[MORE]
Death toll rises to 44 in Egypt train crash
The death toll from a train crash in northern Egypt has risen to 44, a day after the country's worst rail disaster in almost two years, hospital sources said.[MORE]
At least 37 dead in Egypt level crossing crash
At least 37 people were killed and 38 injured in northern Egypt overnight, when a truck failed to stop at a level crossing and pushed waiting traffic into the path of a speeding train, state media said.[MORE]
France launches Med Union with high hopes
Leaders from Europe, North Africa and the Middle East have launched a 43-nation union.[MORE]
Ancient royal burial ground found in Egypt: report
Archaeologists have uncovered ancient wooden coffins in what appears to be a royal burial ground near the necropolis of Abydos in southern Egypt, the state-run MENA news agency reported overnight.[MORE]
MDC says talks underway for transitional Zimbabwe govt
MDC spokesman Eddie Cross says there is talk of forming a transitional government in Zimbabwe.[MORE]
Zambia's President rushed to hospital
Zambia's President Levy Mwanawasa has been rushed to hospital in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh after a health emergency, Egyptian health sources and state media said.[MORE]
Egypt to keep crossing closed until soldier deal reached: Israel
Egypt has told Israel it will keep its Rafah crossing with Gaza closed until the fate of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is resolved, a senior Israeli official said.[MORE]
US cautious on Israel, Hamas truce
The US Government has given a cautious welcome to the truce between Israel and Hamas, saying the United States hoped that meant Hamas would "give up terrorism."[MORE]
