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Seven students are killed and 28 others are injured in drownings on a school trip to the Abu Talat beach in Ajami, Alexandria, Egypt.
2025-08-23

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi says that the "policies of collective punishment" in Gaza are unacceptable and "cannot be justified by self-defence or any other claims".
2023-11-11

Egypt's prosecution service declares that nobody was at the controls of one of the trains that collided last month, in an accident that killed 20 people and injured around 200.
2021-04-11

Egypt frees Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein after four years in detention. He had been held on charges of spreading false news, joining a banned group and receiving foreign funds.
2021-02-6

Egypt pardons al-Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, who have been recently sentenced to three years in prison.
2015-09-23

An Egyptian court sentences Al Jazeera journalists Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy, and Baher Mohamed each to three years jail for "aiding a terrorist organization" and falsifying news. Greste, who earlier was deported to Australia, was tried in absentia. Mohamed, an Egyptian, was sentenced to an additional six months for possession of a spent bullet casing; Fahmy is a Canadian national.
2015-08-29

Egypt deports Australian journalist Peter Greste after being jailed with two al-Jazeera colleagues Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed 400 days before.
2015-02-1

An Egyptian court sentences three al-Jazeera journalists Peter Greste, Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, accused of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, to seven years in jail.
2014-06-23

The scheduled start date of the parliamentary elections Egypt is moved from April 29 to April 22.
2013-02-23

A large protest with as many as a million people participating is planned for the Egyptian capital Cairo over perceived lack of progress since the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
2011-07-12