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About 115 bodies pulled out after refugee boat sinks off Egypt coast
Sep 23, 2016 12:59Egyptian rescue workers have pulled out from the Mediterranean Sea the bodies of more than a hundred refugees whose boat recently capsized near the coast of Egypt.
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Egypt detains 4 suspected traffickers tied to deadly boat incident
Sep 22, 2016 14:55Egyptian authorities have arrested at least four people in connection with the deaths of a group of refugees whose boat recently capsized in the Mediterranean.
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Refugee boat capsizes off Egypt, 29 die
Sep 21, 2016 11:52A boat transporting hundreds of refugees to Europe has capsized off the Mediterranean coast near the Egyptian city of Alexandria, killing at least 29 people.
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Egypt freezes assets of rights campaigners, NGOs
Sep 18, 2016 04:05An Egyptian court has upheld an earlier decision to freeze the assets of five prominent human rights defenders and three non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as the government in Cairo keeps up its policy of repression.
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Egypt names five former generals as provincial governors
Sep 08, 2016 09:45Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has named five former army generals as new provincial governors as part of appointments that increase the influence of military and security figures on crucial bodies.
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Two Egyptian officers killed in shooting attack in Sinai
Aug 23, 2016 11:45Two Egyptian police officers have reportedly been killed in a shooting attack in the North African country’s restive Sinai Peninsula.
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Two policemen killed, five injured in Egypt attack
Aug 21, 2016 13:30A deadly attack on a checkpoint north of the Egyptian capital of Cairo claimed the lives of two police officers.
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Egyptian court sentences 148 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to jail
Aug 18, 2016 14:56An Egyptian military court has sentenced 418 supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood movement to jail terms ranging from two years to life imprisonment.
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Egypt’s state TV: 23 Egyptian workers kidnapped in Libya freed
Aug 12, 2016 14:43Egypt’s state television reported Friday that 23 Egyptian workers kidnapped in Libya have been freed and returned to their country.
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Bomb explosion kills 4, injures 7 in Egypt’s restive Sinai
Aug 06, 2016 03:18An improvised explosive device (IED) has exploded in Egypt’s volatile Sinai Peninsula, leaving four people dead and seven others wounded.