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Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates formally join the BRICS group as new members.
2024-01-1

Three people are killed and 37 others are injured in a collision between a bus and a truck in El Dabaa, Matrouh Governorate, Egypt.
2023-07-30

Egypt receives a shipment of 1.7 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine through the COVAX initiative, bringing the total number of COVAX-donated doses to 4.3 million.
2021-08-13

Egyptian authorities arrest Mahmoud Ezzat, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. He was serving a sentence "in absentia" and was detained in a hideout in Cairo.
2020-08-28

An attack on a bus carrying Copts from Sohag Governorate to the Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor in Egypt kills seven people and injures several others.
2018-11-2

On the final day of the election, Egypt's National Election Authority says it will fine abstaining voters.
2018-03-28

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

Over 100 people are killed and around 1,500 injured in a violent crackdown against protesters in the Egyptian capital of Cairo.
2013-07-27

Voters in Egypt go to the polls for a highly charged referendum on a new constitution with violent clashes reported in Alexandria the evening before.
2012-12-15

Egyptian police shoot and kill an African illegal immigrant outside the Israeli border.
2011-01-2