Sources: Reuters
Sixteen people are missing and 28 others are rescued after a boat carrying tourists sinks off the coast of Marsa Alam, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt. 2024-11-25
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi receives his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. 2021-04-25
A court in Cairo, Egypt, sentences 37 people to prison terms, including eight to life imprisonment for supporting or joining Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant affiliate in the Sinai Province. 2020-01-27
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
Lebanese Customs seize five tonnes of Captagon amphetamine pills and Hashish, concealed in primary school desks that were to be shipped to Egypt, at Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport. Meanwhile, security forces in northern Lebanon found two workshops producing Captagon and other drugs during a series of raids. The drug is infamous as being used by Islamist militants in the Syrian civil war. 2015-12-29
An Egyptian court hands down a death sentence to Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and thirteen others. 2015-03-16
On the 50th day of the conflict, an internationally supported long-term truce is reached where the borders of Gaza, Egypt, and Israel are opened for humanitarian and reconstruction supplies and the Gaza fishing zone is extended to 6 km. Other issues such as an airport-seaport and the Israeli demand for demilitarization will be negotiated within a month. 2014-08-26
Voters in Egypt go to the polls for the first round of voting in parliamentary elections. 2011-11-28
2011 Egyptian revolution: The detention of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is extended by a further 15 days. 2011-04-22
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