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Eleven workers drown after a microbus falls off a ferry into the Nile River in Giza, Egypt.
2024-05-21

Three people are killed after a building collapses in Cairo, Egypt.
2022-11-8

At least 20 people are killed and 24 others injured in a fire at a clothing factory in Cairo, Egypt.
2021-03-11

Saudi Arabia lifts a ban on imports of frozen guava from Egypt.
2018-04-3

Italy recalls its ambassador to Egypt for consultations in protest over the lack of progress in a probe into the fate of murdered Cambridge University student Giulio Regeni. "We want only one thing, the truth about what happened to Giulio," Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Friday.
2016-04-8

Egypt charges former president Mohammed Morsi and nine others for leaking sensitive government information to Qatar.
2014-09-6

Egypt's election council claims that 98.1% of voters supported the new military-backed constitution with a 38.6% turnout.
2014-01-18

At the same time, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also told a meeting of the Israeli Cabinet that, if necessary, he would be prepared to authorize a substantially broader operation, though he did not indicate whether the 75,000 Israeli soldiers put on reserve would be used in a future ground operation or not. Egypt, whose leaders have been working with the U.S., Hamas leaders, the Arab League (which has convened an emergency meeting), Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been trying to secure a (lasting) cease-fire, to avoid a repeat of the 2008 war. During his Asia trip, U.S. President Barack Obama reiterated that Israel had a right to use any means possible to keep its citizens safe from external attacks.
2012-11-18

A rocket fired from Egypt's Sinai desert hits the Israeli city of Eilat but causes no injuries or property damage.
2012-04-5

A group of more than 30 journalists from such countries as Turkey, Spain, Germany, Lebanon, Egypt, the United Kingdom and the United States announces it is to take legal action against Israel for equipment lost and money stolen due to the Gaza flotilla raid.
2010-07-14