Sources: BBC
Egypt and Mauritania invoke United Nations Resolution 377 for the UN General Assembly to discuss an immediate humanitarian ceasefire at an emergency session in New York City, in response to the United States vetoing a UN resolution with a similar objective. 2023-12-11
Thirty-eight people are injured in a fire at a police facility in Ismailia, Egypt. 2023-10-2
Egypt cancels American rapper Travis Scott’s upcoming concert at the Giza Pyramids over Scott's alleged promotion of Freemasonry. 2023-07-26
Ten people are killed and 14 others are injured when a truck crashes into a tourist bus in Aswan Governorate, Egypt. 2022-04-13
Direct commercial flights between Russia and Egypt resume for the first time since the Metrojet Flight 9268 bombing in 2015, which killed 224 people, most of whom were Russian tourists. A Rossiya Airlines passenger plane landed in Sharm El Sheikh carrying 518 passengers, and was welcomed with a water cannon salute, roses and flags. 2021-08-9
German airline Lufthansa resumes flights between Cairo and Frankfurt and Munich, while British Airways flights to Cairo remain cancelled for six more days. The UK Foreign Office warns against "all travel" to certain parts of Egypt, but its standard advice for Cairo is for passengers to check for changes. 2019-07-21
A Muslim mob is found to have attacked Coptic homes and stripped a woman in public in Minya Governorate, Egypt, on 20 May 2016. 2016-05-26
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi cuts diplomatic ties with Syria and orders the Egyptian embassy in Damascus to close. 2013-06-15
Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi's order to reopen parliament is rejected by the highest court, stating that its ruling dissolving the assembly is binding. 2012-07-9
Egypt restricts opposition before vote, with security forces arresting hundreds of opposition activists, and clamping down on the media ahead of parliamentary elections next week according to Amnesty International. 2010-11-21