• Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
MUMBAI - A breakdown in an international undersea cable network has badly disrupted internet links to India and Egypt.
Egypt's Telecommunications Ministry said a communications cable in the Mediterranean was cut, disrupting 70...
• Friday, January 25th, 2008
GAZA STRIP - Egyptian security forces greatly reduced their presence along the breached Gaza border late on Friday after Palestinian militants defied their attempts to seal the gaps by bulldozing a new opening.
Thousands of Palestinians...
• Thursday, January 24th, 2008
JERUSALEM - Israel wants to cut its links with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip after militants blasted open the territory's border with Egypt in defiance of an Israeli blockade, Israel's deputy defence minister said on Thursday.
Israel,...
• Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
GAZA STRIP - Tens of thousands of Palestinians poured into Egypt from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday through a border wall destroyed by militants, and stocked up on food and fuel in short supply because of an Israeli blockade.
"Those...
• Saturday, January 12th, 2008
The Old Winter Palace in Luxor, 19th-century redoubt of kings and princes overlooking the Nile, has seen plenty of their like before: Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher, Giscard d'Estaing and Jimmy Carter are among the political...
• Wednesday, April 04th, 2007
Relics advertised as being remains of St. Joan of Arc are no such thing and may in fact be parts of an Egyptian mummy, Nature magazine reported today.The magazine quoted French researchers who analyzed the relics and found they...
• Friday, March 30th, 2007
PARIS - A French architect said on Friday he had cracked a 4,500-year-old mystery surrounding Egypt's Great Pyramid, saying it was built from the inside out.Previous theories have suggested Pharaoh Khufu's tomb, the last surviving...
• Thursday, March 29th, 2007
CAIRO - Egypt sent an archaeological team to France today to retrieve 3200-year-old strands of hair from the mummy of Pharaoh Ramses II, who presided over an era of great military expansion in Egypt, state media said.The existence...
• Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
JERUSALEM - A Palestinian woman wearing a strangely bulging robe was caught at the Gaza-Egypt border trying to smuggle three baby crocodiles strapped to her waist, an official.The reptiles, their jaws tied shut, were apparently...
• Sunday, March 25th, 2007
CAIRO - A three-year-old Egyptian girl has contracted bird flu, the 27th case among humans in Egypt, the state news agency MENA said today. The girl, Hajer Mohamed Awadallah, was taken to hospital in the southern town of Aswan...
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