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Five people are killed and nine others are injured when a boat capsizes on the Nile River in Cairo, Egypt.
2024-07-30

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

An Egyptian excavation team discovers the remains of a pyramid dating back 3,700 years to the thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt at the Dahshur necropolis 40km south of Cairo.
2017-04-3

Riot police violently break up an anti-Sisi protest in Cairo, Egypt. In the first sign of public discontent with President Sisi's rule, hundreds of people gathered and shouted slogans calling for his overthrow.
2016-04-15

Seven people are killed after a truck collides with a train near Cairo, Egypt.
2016-01-31

A bomb targeting an Egyptian military intelligence building north of Cairo in the village of Anshas wounds four soldiers.
2013-12-29

Russian ministers led by Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov including Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu arrive in Cairo and meet with their Egyptian counterparts including the head of Egypt's military General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in talks over a new era of enhanced military co-operation.
2013-11-14

A trial begins in Cairo of 16 Americans and 27 others linked to an Egyptian government crackdown on non-government organizations which has created tension between the United States and Egypt.
2012-02-26

Syrian Civil War: Arab League ministers meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss the extension of its monitoring mission in Syria.
2012-01-22