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Wasabi could help preserve ancient Egyptian papyrus artefacts
Ancient and fragile papyrus samples are at risk of being damaged by fungi, but a wasabi-based treatment can disinfect them without damage
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Ahmed Assem: the Egyptian photographer who chronicled his own death
The grainy film captures the soldier as he shoots from his vantage point on top of the yellow stone building.
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Egypt's interim president Adly Mansour signs 'anti-protest law'
Rights groups and lawyers say legislation requiring permission to gather will make legal demonstrations almost impossible
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Egypt: Heavy prison sentence for Islamist women
Nearly two dozen Islamist women and girls, some as young as 15, were handed heavy prison sentences Wednesday for protesting in a court ruling that came a day after police beat and terrorized prominent female activists in a crackdown on secular demonstrators under a tough new anti-protest law.
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Snow in Egypt? Something That Hasn't Happened In 100 Years
The snow that has blanketed much of the Middle East turned Cairo white on Friday - with local news reports claiming it was Egypt's capital's first snowfall in 112 years.
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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood declared 'terrorist group'
The military-backed interim Egyptian government has declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group after blaming it for a deadly attack on a police HQ earlier this week. The group, whose candidate Mohammed Morsi won the presidential poll last year before being deposed by the military, had already been outlawed.
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Egyptian Author Warns of Uprising Fueled by… Jon Stewart?
A popular Egyptian author has reason to fear the future of his nation, believing that there are forces trying to undermine Egypt and bringing about an insurrection of sorts, and one of the people involved in this global subversion is Jon Stewart.
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Egypt Detains Journalists It Says Aired ‘False News’
Egyptian authorities detained a team of journalists working for the Al Jazeera English news channel on Sunday, including an Australian journalist and the channel’s Cairo bureau chief, on charges that included meeting with members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group that the Egyptian government classified last week as a terrorist organization.
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Tomb of ancient Egypt's beer maker to gods of the dead discovered
Imagine a warm brew of lager so heady you had to plunge a straw through the thick surface scum to get to the fermented liquor below.
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Why Are Journalists Being Imprisoned in Egypt?
Abdullah Elshamy, an Al Jazeera correspondent, has now been in prison for 175 days and on hunger strike for a little over two weeks. "I've lost a number of pounds. I only rely on liquids. The littlest effort makes me feel dizzy," he wrote in a letter smuggled out of his prison cell, where pens and paper are banned. "But it's what I feel compelled to do in order to raise awareness about the importance of freedom of speech."
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Two explosions rock Giza district near Cairo
Two explosions have been heard in the space of two minutes in a busy district near Egypt's capital. Al Jazeera sources, quoting the security directorate, said the two blasts occurred in Giza and went off on Giza Bridge near where Central Security Forces vehicles were parked. AFP news agency said four Egyptian policemen were wounded in the attack, citing an interior ministry official.
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Egypt government resigns, paving way for Sisi to seek presidency
Egypt's government resigned on Monday, paving the way for army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to declare his candidacy for president of a strategic U.S. ally gripped by political strife.
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Egyptian ‘miracle cure for HIV’ met with scepticism
The Egyptian military has developed a device capable of both detecting and curing HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C, according to the country’s government, though the claim has been met with widespread scepticism by both scientists and the Egyptian public.
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Ancient Egyptian Soldier's Letter Home Deciphered
A newly deciphered letter home dating back around 1,800 years reveals the pleas of a young Egyptian soldier named Aurelius Polion who was serving, probably...
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The Coca-Cola cover up: Egypt police van ‘disguised’
Egyptian social media users on Friday were abuzz over video footage allegedly showing a police van carrying the logo of Coca Cola.
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Al-Jazeera journalist jailed in Egypt loses full use of arm
Mohamed Fahmy, one of four imprisoned journalists, reveals injury has worsened after being denied treatment since arrest
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Egypt's Mass Death Sentencing of 529 People Stirs Global Outrage
The death sentence for 529 defendants, unprecedented in modern Egyptian history, came after a controversial one-day trial that casts Egypt's military-backed government in even worse light amid its ruthless crackdown on dissent.
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Egypt's el-Sissi visits Coptic pope before Easter
Egypt's former military chief and presumed presidential front-runner visited the Coptic pope Saturday ahead of Orthodox Easter, making his first public appearance since he formally made his bid for the presidency. Pope Tawadros II is a strong backer of retired Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who removed the country's first democratically elected president last summer after a wave of popular protests.
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Egyptian court sentences top Muslim Brotherhood leader to death
An Egyptian court sentenced the leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and 682 supporters to death on Monday, intensifying a crackdown on the movement that could trigger protests
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Egypt sentences 683 to death in latest mass trial of dissidents
An Egyptian court in the southern city of Minya sentenced 683 people to death Monday in the most recent of a series of mass trials that have alarmed the international community. The ruling came one month after 529 people were sentenced to death in a similar mass trial in the same courtroom, and it coincided with a visit to Washington by Egypt’s foreign minister in an effort to smooth relations between the United States and one of its most significant allies in the Middle East.
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