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Influential Muslim cleric Youssef al-Qaradawi dies

Influential Muslim cleric Youssef al-Qaradawi dies

Senior Muslim cleric Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi, who was based in Qatar and was a spiritual leader for the Muslim Brotherhood, died on Monday

People and police gather near the scene where a deadly fire broke out at the Abu Sifin church in Giza, Egypt, 14 August 2022.

Electrical fire kills 41 in Cairo Coptic church

More than 40 people were killed when a fire ripped through a Coptic Christian church in a working-class district of greater Cairo during Sunday mass

Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane during a Liverpool match

Mane and Salah renew rivalry with top African award up for grabs

Another chapter in the personal rivalry between former Liverpool teammates Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah will play out in Rabat on Thursday when the annual African award winners are announced

Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman gives a speech from his office as he addresses the Saudi Green Initiative forum opening ceremony, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 23 October 2021.

Egyptian, Saudi firms sign accords worth $7.7b

Saudi and Egyptian companies signed agreements worth a total of $7.7 billion during a visit to Cairo by the Saudi crown prince, state media in both countries said.

Court jails Egyptian former presidential candidate for 15 years

Court jails Egyptian former presidential candidate for 15 years

An Egyptian court sentenced former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh and several prominent figures from the banned Muslim Brotherhood to lengthy jail terms on Sunday on accusations ...

An aircraft of EgyptAir

2016 EgyptAir disaster started by cigarette in cockpit: report

An EgyptAir crash in 2016 that killed 66 people in the Mediterranean was likely caused by a fire that started in the cockpit, according to the conclusions of French experts contained in documents ...

Senegal's players celebrate after winning the Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) 2021 final football match between Senegal and Egypt at Stade d'Olembe in Yaounde on 6 February, 2022.

African Cup of Nations Senegal win AFCON beating Egypt in penalty shoot-out

Sadio Mane made up for missing from the spot in normal time to score the decisive penalty as Senegal overcame Mohamed Salah's Egypt 4-2 in a shoot-out to win their first Africa Cup of Nations title ...

Airmen and civilians from the 436th Aerial Port Squadron palletise ammunition, weapons and other equipment bound for Ukraine during a foreign military sales mission at Dover Air Force Base, in Delaware, US on 21 January 2022

US approves $2.56b in military sales to Egypt

Two lawmakers who have been critical of US arms sales to Egypt said Tuesday that Egypt has not met the conditions required to remove the suspension on the frozen $130 million

French judge charges airline chief over 2004 Egypt crash

French judge charges airline chief over 2004 Egypt crash

A Paris judge has charged the former chief of Egypt's Flash Airlines over a 2004 crash off the Sinai Peninsula that killed 148 people, most of them French, a judicial source said Tuesday

Ever Given, one of the world's largest container ships, is seen after sailing through Suez Canal in Ismailia, Egypt on 20 August 2021

Record cargo shipped through Egypt's Suez Canal last year

Connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, the canal accounts for roughly 10 per cent of global maritime trade and is a source of much-needed foreign currency for Egypt.

Shawki Abuzeid, Egyptian cleric and head of Al-Azhar?s mission to Afghanistan, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Cairo, Egypt, on 29 August 2021

Sunni scholars who left Afghanistan hope Islam’s tolerant message survives Taliban

The 1,000 year-old institution had opened a mission in Kabul in 2007, promoting what its clerics describe as Islam’s peaceful tradition in a country where guerrillas have used religion as a ...

A handout picture released by the Egyptian presidency on 13 September, 2021, shows Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R) meeting with Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett in the Egyptian Red Sea resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh

Israeli prime minister visits Egypt in first official trip for a decade

Bennett, the head of a far-right party who took office in June, was invited to visit by Sisi last month and the two were due to meet in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on the southern tip of ...

Egyptair to operate regular Dhaka-Cairo flights from 1 Nov

Egyptair to operate regular Dhaka-Cairo flights from 1 Nov

Egyptair, the state-owned flag carrier of Egypt, has announced to launch its direct regular flights from Dhaka to Cairo from 1 November

HRW calls for Egypt sanctions over ‘extrajudicial executions’

HRW calls for Egypt sanctions over ‘extrajudicial executions’

The group Human Rights Watch accused Egypt on Tuesday of routinely killing opponents in “unlawful extrajudicial executions” made to look like shootouts and urged international sanctions against Cairo

Ever Given, one of the world's largest container ships, is seen after sailing through Suez Canal in Ismailia, Egypt on 20 August 2021.

Ever Given, ship that blocked Suez Canal in March, crosses canal again

A super tanker that blocked the Suez Canal is heading back to Asia, authorities said, five months after it became wedged across the vital waterway and crippled world trade

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