Tag: Egypt
Egypt hands Christian teens 5 years for contempt of Islam
An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced three Coptic Christian teenagers to five years in jail for contempt of Islam after they appeared in a...
Little sign of protest on anniversary of Egypt’s uprising
About 100 people gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Monday, not to celebrate those who instigated the revolt there five years ago that overthrew...
China’s Xi Jinping to visit Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran
Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iran next week, Beijing's foreign ministry said Friday, as the world's second-largest economy seeks...
Egypt arrests Facebook page administrators ahead of revolt anniversary
Egyptian security forces have arrested the administrators of 47 Facebook pages that the interior ministry says are run by the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, intensifying...
14 drown in Egypt Nile boat accident
At least fourteen people drowned when an unlicensed ferry capsized in the Egypt’s Nile river north of Cairo overnight, the official MENA news agency...
Egypt jails Muslim scholar for insulting Islam
An Egyptian court has reduced the jail term for a controversial Muslim scholar convicted of insulting Islam on his television show from five years...
With Egypt, Paris attacks, IS shows international reach
By bombing a Russian passenger plane over Egypt and carrying out deadly attacks in Paris, the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group has demonstrated both...
FPCCI president stresses enhancing Pak-Egypt bilateral economic ties, trade relations
Federation of Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry President (FPCCI) Mian Muhammad Idrees on Saturday stressed the need for enhancing bilateral economic ties and...
Eight civilians killed in Egypt’s Sinai
Gunmen killed eight civilians, including a child, in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula where the army is battling a insurgency, medical and security sources said Thursday.
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Egypt says foreign powers ignored calls to fight terrorism
Egypt criticised its foreign partners on Saturday for ignoring calls to work harder to combat terrorism, after Western intelligence sources said there were signs...
IS affiliate in Egypt insists it brought down Russian plane
Islamic State’s Egyptian affiliate dismissed in an audio message on Wednesday doubts that it had downed a Russian passenger plane over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula,...
Russian airline blames ‘external’ factors after IS releases ‘video proof’ they...
The Russian passenger jet that crashed in Egypt came down because of “external” factors, the airline company said Monday, hours after Islamic State released...
Bodies of Egypt crash victims arrive in Russia
A plane carrying the remains of 144 people killed when a Russian airliner crashed in Egypt landed in Saint Petersburg early on Monday, hours...
ISIS-linked group in Egypt ‘not capable of downing plane’
The ISIS-linked group that claimed to have downed a Russian plane over the Sinai peninsula has surface-to-air missiles smuggled from Libya, but nothing powerful...
Egypt sentences three Al-Jazeera journalists to three years in prison
An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced three Al-Jazeera English journalists to three years in prison, the last twist in a long-running trial criticised worldwide...
President wants stronger ties with Egypt
Talking to the outgoing Egyptian Ambassador Said Hindam in Islamabad on Tuesday, President Mamnoon Hussain said that Pakistan considered Egypt a significant stakeholder in...
Two years after Morsi, Egypt stuck in turmoil
Two years after the army deposed president Mohamed Morsi, Egypt is roiled by brazen Islamic State (IS) group attacks in the Sinai Peninsula and...
