Sources: BBC
Hamas announces the end of ceasefire talks held in Cairo, Egypt, while Israel vows to continue its military operations. 2024-05-5
Egypt receives its first shipment of 50,000 of Sinopharm's vaccine, making it the first African country to receive COVID-19 vaccines. The shipment was provided as a gift from the United Arab Emirates, which recently announced that the vaccine had an 86% efficacy based on Phase III testing results. 2020-12-11
Egyptian news site "Masr al-Arabia" says its offices were raided and a journalist arrested in response to the republication of an article by "The New York Times" alleging irregularities in the nation's recent Presidential election. 2018-04-4
King of Saudi Arabia Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud announces, during his trip to Cairo, that a bridge crossing the Red Sea will be built, linking Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi says the bridge will be named after the Saudi monarch. A Saudi–Egypt Causeway project has been in the works for years. 2016-04-8
Egyptian security officials say army helicopter gunships have rocketed several houses where militants were thought to have gathered in the northern region of the Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 10. 2014-02-20
One person is killed and four injured in an attack on a provincial party office in the Egyptian city of Zagazig. 2013-06-28
The remains of a pyramid for an adviser to Pharaoh Ramses II is found in an archaeological excavation in Luxor, Egypt. 2013-02-21
Natural gas supplies to Jordan and Israel are hit by an explosion in the Arab Gas Pipeline in the town of Arish in North Sinai near Egypt's border with Israel with an armed group believed responsible. 2011-04-27
Egyptian police shoot and kill an African illegal immigrant outside the Israeli border. 2011-01-2
Israeli warplanes bomb a smuggling tunnel east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip in an early morning raid close to the Egyptian border in response to a Palestinian rocket attack which landed in an open area south of the city of Ashkelon, causing no damage or casualties. 2010-03-22