Sources: BBC
The Rafah Border Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt is reopened for the first time since Israel captured it nearly nine months ago during the Rafah offensive. 2025-02-1
Four people are killed and 13 more injured during a building collapse in Beheira Governorate, Egypt. 2023-07-16
Egyptian chief prosecutor Nabil Sadek refers 555 ISIL suspects suspected of 63 terror attacks to a military court, while the Giza Criminal Court in Cairo sentences nine terrorists to life imprisonment and two others to five years imprisonment each. 2018-05-7
Tourism bookings in Egypt’s main Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh plunge in the wake of the plane crash with some 80% of reservations cancelled and at least 40% of the tourists leaving the resort since the crash. 2015-11-11
Egypt, Senegal, Uruguay, Japan, and Ukraine are elected to two-year, non-permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council for 2016-17, replacing Chad, Chile, Jordan, Lithuania, and Nigeria. [https:--www.nytimes.com-2015-10-16-world-ukraine-and-japan-among-latest-members-of-un-security-council.html?ref=world (New York Times) ] 2015-10-15
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan slams Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as an "illegitimate tyrant", adding that Egypt could not be relied on when negotiating a ceasefire. 2014-07-18
Egypt's Justice Minister Ahmed Mekki resigns in protest of perceived attacks on judiciary by the nation's leadership. 2013-04-21
The Xinhua news agency reports that 25 Chinese workers held captive in the Sinai region of Egypt have been released. 2012-02-1
Nine people, including Russians and Ukrainians, die in a bus accident in Egypt. 2010-11-20
A ship bound from Libya, the "Al-Amal", due to deliver humanitarian aid from Algeria, Morocco and Nigeria to the Gaza Strip, changes course for Egypt after being warned to stay away by the Israeli Navy and receiving pressure from the United States to "act responsibly". 2010-07-13