• Sunday, January 20th, 2008
The issue of succession is so delicate that Egypt’s government threatened to imprison an editor after his newspaper ran stories that the Egyptian president was ill.
• Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Egypt expressed unusually strong support for the Bush administration’s efforts to begin negotiating peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.
• Sunday, January 20th, 2008
An American human rights group said the Egyptian authorities had little or no evidence when they charged 22 men with a dramatic terrorism plot last year, and that the men were beaten and tortured before confessing.
• Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Egypt and Saudi Arabia’s cooperation with Hamas to allow 2,000 people to leave Gaza last week for a pilgrimage to Mecca is causing local and international friction.
• Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Lafarge, the world’s largest cement maker, said Monday that it was buying the Orascom Construction Industries Cement Group of Egypt for about $12.9 billion.
• Sunday, January 20th, 2008
At least 15 Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, said they would attend a U.S.-sponsored conference.
• Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Subsidized bread is part of making ends meet in Egypt, where about 45 percent of the population survives on just $2 a day.
• Sunday, January 20th, 2008
A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Thursday blocked the government’s efforts to deport a Coptic Christian who said he would be tortured if he were returned to Egypt.
• Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Egypt allowed about 2,000 Palestinian pilgrims to cross back into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after they had been stranded for days in the Egyptian Sinai on their way back from Mecca.
• Sunday, January 20th, 2008
A 12-story apartment building collapsed Monday in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, the latest in a string of such disasters in recent years.
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