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Egypt: Same court sentences hundreds to death for second time in a month
The same Egyptian judge who sentenced over 500 people to death last month is at it again, having sentenced another 680 individuals to death on April 28.
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'One of the earliest images of Jesus' unearthed in Egyptian tomb
A team of Catalan archaeologists believes it has unearthed one of the earliest images of Jesus Christ buried deep in an ancient Egyptian tomb. Experts at the University of Barcelona discovered an underground structure in the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchu which may have acted as a resting place for a number of priests.
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Simpsons part of 'global conspiracy' in Arab Spring, Egypt TV claims
A 2001 episode of The Simpsons "raises questions" as to whether the Arab Spring and the Syrian civil war was part of a "global conspiracy," the Egyptian TV channel al-Tahrir claimed in a report aired earlier this week.
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Mubarak sentenced to three years in jail
Former Egyptian president found guilty of stealing public funds by Cairo's Criminal Court, a ruling that can be appealed.
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Mubarak's old guard stand behind Sisi in run for Egypt's presidency
Sisi has the backing of many of Mubarak's close circle of advisors, who hope to gain the same power they had before the 2011 revolution
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How Wealthy Elites Are Hijacking Democracy All Over the World
Amid the upheavals in Thailand, Ukraine and Egypt, wealthy elites have used popular movements and elections to ratify decisions in their favor.
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Archaeologists discover 4,000-year-old tomb from 11th dynasty in Luxor
Spanish archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old pharaonic tomb belonging to a leader from the 11th dynasty of Egypt in Luxor, the antiquities ministry said on Monday.
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Remains of Ancient Egyptian Epidemic Uncovered
Dig reveals bodies covered with a thick layer of lime, three kilns where the lime was made, and evidence of a giant bonfire containing human remains.
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We Finally Know How The Pyramids Were Made
For thousands of years, the mystery of how the pyramids in Egypt were made has puzzled the world. Do we finally know the answer? Join Laci as she discusses how the answer might be more obvious than we thought!
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Egypt campaigns against atheism
The Ministry of Awqaf (religious endowment), in partnership with the Ministry of Sports and Youth in Egypt, has begun a national campaign to fight the presumed spread of atheism among youth.
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Israel accepts new Gaza ceasefire: Israeli officials
Israel has accepted a new Gaza ceasefire proposed by Egyptian mediators and will send negotiators to Cairo on Monday if the truce holds, Israeli officials said. Egypt had called on Israel and the Palestinians to commit to a new ceasefire that would start at 1700 ET and be in effect for 72 hours. A previous three-day pause expired on Friday and fighting in a month-old war resumed.
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Egypt Begins Surveillance Of Facebook, Twitter, And Skype On Unprecedented Scale
Egyptians’ online communications are now being monitored by the sister company of an American cybersecurity firm, giving the Egyptian government an unprecedented ability to comb through data from Skype, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, among others.
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Suspect in 1998 bombings pleads to lesser charges
The father of the ISIS militant suspected of being 'Jihadi John' today wept as he admitted plotting with Osama bin Laden to blow up U.S. embassies. Adel Abdul Bary, 54, pleaded guilty to charges of making a threat to use an explosive device and conspiracy to murder Americans at Manhattan federal court. His charges were in relation to the 1998 plot to bomb two U.S. embassies in Africa, which left 224 people dead, including 12 Americans.
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Man Sets World Record for Deepest Underwater Dive
An Egyptian man recently took the ultimate plunge for the sake of science. Setting a new Guinness World Record for the deepest scuba dive, the man dove more than 1,000 feet (305 meters) below the surface of the Red Sea.
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What the Garbageman Knows
As Sayyid Ahmed collects trash in Peter Hessler’s Cairo neighborhood, he reveals the contradictions of life in modern Egypt.
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Remains of Alexander the Great's Father Confirmed Found
A team of Greek researchers has confirmed that bones found in a two-chambered royal tomb at Vergina, a town some 100 miles away from Amphipolis's mysterious burial mound, indeed belong to the Macedonian King Philip II, Alexander the Great's father.
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Egypt: 29 killed as Sinai attacks target security forces
A suspected jihadist car bomb has killed at least 26 Egyptian soldiers at a checkpoint in Sinai, officials say. The attack took place near El Arish, the main town in the north of the restive peninsula. Three more died in a shooting in the town itself.
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Egypt jails eight men for three years after video of country’s 'first gay wedding' goes viral
An Egyptian court has sentenced eight men to three years in jail today after they appeared in an online video purportedly showing the country's first gay marriage ceremony.
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Egypt’s Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis swears allegiance to ISIS: statement
Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, Egypt’s most active militant group, has sworn allegiance to Islamic State, a statement from Ansar said Monday night. Ansar had previously told Reuters that it sought inspiration and advice from Islamic State, the radical al-Qaeda offshoot that has taken over swathes of Iraq and Syria, drawing U.S.-led airstrikes as it tries to remake the map of the Middle East.
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The Curse of the Unlucky Mummy
Sometime in the 1860s, five recent Oxford graduates took a trip to Egypt. Together they sailed down the Nile, a tourist attraction even then. To remember their trip, they bought a souvenir in the mummy pits of Deir el-Bahri—the coffin lid of a priestess of Amen-Ra.
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