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Fifty-six people, mostly children, are hospitalized after they suffocated due to inhalation of chlorine gas that leaked from a swimming pool in Alexandria, Egypt.
2023-07-20

Four people are killed and 13 more injured during a building collapse in Beheira Governorate, Egypt.
2023-07-16

Egypt signs an agreement to purchase 20 million doses of the Sinopharm BBIBP-CorV vaccine and expects a delivery of 500,000 doses this month.
2021-04-20

The Suez Canal is blocked in both directions after the Panamanian-flagged container ship "Ever Given" runs aground north of Egypt's Suez Port.
2021-03-23

The Palestinian National Authority confirms the first cases of COVID-19 in the Gaza Strip. Both patients are Palestinian men in their 30s who recently returned from Egypt. They are being held in quarantine in the border town of Rafah.
2020-03-22

An Egyptian court sentences 185 people to death over their alleged involvement in a lethal attack on a police station on the outskirts of Cairo.
2014-12-2

A court in Egypt confirms the death sentences of over 180 Islamists, including Mohamed Badie, the top leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.
2014-06-20

Militants open fire on a bus carrying workers from a cement factory in Arish, Northern Sinai, Egypt, killing three and injuring 17. The gunfire is believed to have been intended for a police vehicle.
2013-07-15

At least one person is killed and more than 40 left wounded after hundreds of Christian protesters clash with riot police in Cairo, Egypt.
2010-11-25

Egypt restricts opposition before vote, with security forces arresting hundreds of opposition activists, and clamping down on the media ahead of parliamentary elections next week according to Amnesty International.
2010-11-21