Sources: BBC
Three British tourists are killed and 26 other people are rescued after a boat fire in the Red Sea near Marsa Alam, Egypt. 2023-06-11
Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry visits Syria and Turkey in the first official state visit by Egypt in more than 10 years amid strained relations with both countries. 2023-02-27
Two people are killed in a shark attack off the coast of Sahl Hasheesh, Egypt, on the Red Sea. 2022-07-3
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
Shelling in Bir Al Abd, Egypt kills nine members of the same family. A further six people are wounded. 2019-10-12
The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities says infrared thermography indicates a hidden chamber in the tomb of King Tutankhamen, findings consistent with early theories his tomb included two concealed doorways and with the theory presented in archaeologist Nicholas Reeves' paper this summer. 2015-11-7
The death toll from a heat wave in Egypt this week rises to 60. 2015-08-12
A hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia kills fifteen Egyptian pilgrims with 130 also injured. 2014-02-8
A man is sentenced to death in Egypt for killing Copts at a Christmas mass a year ago. 2011-01-16