Sources: The Straits Times
Three police officers are killed and two others are injured in a gas explosion at the police academy in Cairo, Egypt. 2024-12-29
Fourteen people are killed after a minibus and a truck collide in Abu Minqar, New Valley Governorate, Egypt. 2022-11-15
Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman announces his resignation with effect in 48 hours in response to the Egyptian-mediated ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. 2018-11-14
Egypt bans "Saturday Night Live Arabia" for using "sexual expressions that are inappropriate for viewers". 2018-02-12
The Egyptian government closes the Rafah border crossing with Gaza and will set up a buffer zone after a series of attacks which were reported to have been launched using smuggling tunnels from Gaza. 2014-10-26
Egypt appoints new judges for the trial of 43 non-government organisation workers including six Americans who left earlier in the week. 2012-03-3
Political leaders of Palestinian group Hamas exit Syria for Egypt and Qatar, saying it could no longer operate in the country. 2012-02-28
Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party claims to have won a majority of seats in the runoff election. 2011-12-7
Islamist parties win the first stage of the Egyptian parliamentary election, with the Muslim Brotherhood-aligned Freedom and Justice Party first at 37% of the vote, and the more hardline Salafi Al-Nour Party in second place with 24% of the vote. 2011-12-4
Authorities in Egypt suspend the prison sentences of 120 protesters who participated in the 2011 Egyptian revolution. 2011-05-19