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Egypt says killed Daesh leader in Sinai Peninsula
Aug 04, 2016 16:08The Egyptian military says it has killed the leader of the Daesh Takfiri group operating in a restive Sinai region northeast of the country.
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Takfiri group kills senior Egyptian police officer in restive Sinai
Jul 25, 2016 11:31A high-ranking Egyptian police officer has been shot dead by a militant group during an attack in the country’s restive Sinai Peninsula.
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Egypt blocks UN statement on Turkey coup
Jul 17, 2016 04:18The Egyptian government, headed by a former general who came to power following a coup in 2013, has blocked a United Nations Security Council statement that called on all parties to “respect the democratically elected government of Turkey,” which fought and largely defeated an attempted coup by a faction of the Turkish military.
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Egypt court jails 10 for 3 yrs over islands demos
Jul 14, 2016 17:18An Egyptian court has sentenced 10 people to three years' imprisonment for taking part in demonstrations against a recent contentious decision by the government to hand over two strategic islands to Saudi Arabia.
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Hundreds disappear in Egypt government crackdown: Amnesty
Jul 13, 2016 09:12Amnesty International says the Egyptian government has been increasingly relying on a “sinister” campaign of abductions and torture to silence political dissidents.
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Egypt FM travels to Tel Aviv to meet with Netanyahu
Jul 10, 2016 12:09Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has left Cairo for Occupied Palestine for a meeting with the Prime Minister of illegal Zionist entity.
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Egypt joins critics of Israeli decision to build new settler units
Jul 08, 2016 09:05Egypt, one of the two Arab countries that have public diplomatic relations with the illegal Zionist entity, has censured Tel Aviv’s recent decision to construct several hundred new illegal settler units in the occupied Palestinian lands.
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Info can be extracted from intact recorder of doomed passenger plane: Egypt
Jul 02, 2016 12:12Egyptian authorities say they are capable of retrieving information from the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the doomed EgyptAir flight MS804 as its memory chips are not damaged.
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Egypt briefly opens Rafah border crossing
Jun 29, 2016 09:04Egypt has temporarily opened its border with the besieged Gaza Strip to allow the Palestinians with urgent need to cross in and out of the enclave.
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Egypt court voids islands deal with Saudi Arabia
Jun 21, 2016 08:03An Egyptian court has voided a maritime border deal signed with Saudi Arabia that would hand over the control of two strategic Red Sea islands to Riyadh.