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About 500 people, including injured Palestinians, foreigners and dual Palestinian–foreign nationals, are evacuated from the Gaza Strip through the Rafah Border Crossing to Egypt, marking the border crossing's first opening since the war began.
2023-11-1

Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov visits Egypt for diplomatic talks, and will also visit Ethiopia, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2022-07-24

An Egyptian court sentences university student Ahmed Bassam Zaki to an additional eight years in prison for sexually assaulting and blackmailing at least three women between 2016 and 2020. The case led to a public debate about sexual harassment and abuse within the country. Zaki was previously sentenced to three years in prison by a different court in December.
2021-04-11

A roadside bomb kills two members of the Egyptian Armed Forces and injures five others near Bir al-Abd in the North Sinai Governorate.
2021-01-1

A migrant boat carrying some 600 passengers capsizes off the coast of Kafr el-Sheikh Governorate, Egypt, killing at least 52 people, with hundreds more missing.
2016-09-21

Egypt's highest court overturns and initiates a retrial on the only remaining conviction against former President Hosni Mubarak (a May 2014 sentencing of three years in prison for embezzlement).
2015-01-13

Archaeologists working near the ancient settlement of Edfu in southern Egypt discover the remains of a 4,600-year-old step pyramid.
2014-02-4

Natural gas supplies to Jordan and Israel are hit by an explosion in the Arab Gas Pipeline in the town of Arish in North Sinai near Egypt's border with Israel with an armed group believed responsible.
2011-04-27

The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest opposition bloc, claims fraud in the parliamentary elections and says it has won no seats.
2010-11-29