Tag: Cairo

Egypt’s ex-president Morsi buried in Cairo, Islamists mourn

CAIRO: Egypt’s Islamist ex-president Mohamed Morsi was buried in a small family ceremony early on Tuesday a day after he suffered a fatal heart...

Egypt’s overthrown president Morsi quietly buried in Cairo

CAIRO: Egypt's first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi was buried Tuesday, as calls mounted for an independent investigation into the causes of his death after...

Cat mummies, animal statues discovered in Egypt sarcophagi

CAIRO: Seven sarcophagi, some dating back more than 6,000 years, have been discovered at a site on the edge of the pyramid complex in...

Group urges international probe of 2013 crackdown in Cairo

  CAIRO: An international rights group has called for an international inquiry into a violent dispersal of an Islamist sit-in in Cairo in August 2013. That...

Egypt says 6 militants killed in raid north of Cairo

CAIRO: Egypt's Interior Ministry says its forces have killed six militants in a raid on their hideout in Beheira province, north of Cairo. The ministry...

CJCSC General Zubair meets Egyptian president Sisi in Cairo

Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) General Zubair Mahmood Hayat on Thursday met Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi in Cairo. The meeting came in...

Colossus of ancient Egyptian King Ramses shifted carefully to new home

CAIRO: Egypt moved an 83-tonne, 3,200-year-old statue of King Ramses II to the atrium of Cairo’s new Grand Egyptian Museum in a complex operation...