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Why you can't get a decent drink in Egypt
He pours two glasses, sniff and sip, sniff and sip. “This one is my favourite,” says David Molyneux-Berry, after uncorking a bottle of red Chateau de Granville 2014. The wine is made with grapes from Bordeaux. They are chilled and sent to Egypt for processing by the Al-Ahram Beverages Company. The flavour is certainly distinctive, complete with a lingering acidity that seems to stick to the back of the throat. “The problem is that wine doesn’t...
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The Real Housewives of Ancient Egypt Had 8-Foot-Long Prenups
Eight feet long from edge to edge and brushed with beautiful calligraphy, the stretched-out scroll hanging on the walls of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago could easily be mistaken for a poem, or an ornate royal decree. It's neither. It's a prenup... By Cara Giaimo.
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Saint Catherine, Egypt- Timelapse
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Egypt opens border with Gaza for first time in 2 months
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Egypt has opened its border with the Gaza Strip for the first time in two months.
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Egyptian security building in Cairo rocked by bomb blast
A powerful car bomb has exploded outside a state security building in northern Cairo, Egyptian security officials say. The blast, which was felt across large parts of the Egyptian capital, injured 29 people, six of them police. The explosion happened in the early hours of Thursday morning. There were no reports of any deaths. The militant group Islamic State (IS) says it carried out the attack "to avenge Muslim martyrs".
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Human rights group slams Egypt's new anti-terrorism law
Egypt's sweeping new counterterrorism law erodes basic rights and defines terrorism so broadly that it could encompass civil disobedience and be used to stifle dissent, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday in a scathing report. The New York-based group says the law, passed by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi last weekend, gives prosecutors greater power to detain suspects without judicial review and order wide-ranging and potentially indefinite surveillance...
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Egypt sentences Muslim Brotherhood leader to life in prison
Egypt’s state-run news agency says Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and 16 others have been sentenced to life in prison on charges related to the killing of five people in an attack on a police station in 2013. The news agency report Saturday says Badie and senior Brotherhood members Mohammed el-Beltagy and Safwat Hegazy were accused of inciting other Brotherhood members to attack the police station in the Mediterranean city of Port Said, and kill its officers and soldiers.
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Egyptian billionaire wants to buy an island to house migrants
Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris has asked Greece and Italy to sell him an island so that he can develop it for the hundreds of thousands of refugees in the area.
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Al-Jazeera journalists jailed for airing 'false news', Egyptian court ruling says
Mohamed Fahmy, Peter Greste and Baher Mohamed were by default members of Muslim Brotherhood due to al-Jazeera ‘siding with’ banned group, ruling says
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Egyptian billionaire offers to buy an island for refugees
An Egyptian billionaire has offered a plan to help ease the pressure on European nations facing a crush of refugees seeking asylum: He'll buy them an island of their own.
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Top female student takes on corruption in Egypt after scoring zero on exams
Dubbed ‘zero schoolgirl’, Mariam Malak is drawing national attention after appeals to investigate forgery allegations were repeatedly dodged by authorities
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Egypt pardons and releases jailed al-Jazeera journalists
Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed granted clemency by president on day before he leaves for UN general assembly in New York
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King Tut's tomb likely has hidden chamber, Egyptian official says
The search for ancient Egypt's Queen Nefertiti in an alleged hidden chamber in King Tut's tomb gained new momentum as Egypt's Antiquities Minister said Tuesday he is now more convinced a queen's tomb may lie hidden behind King Tutankhamun's final resting place. While touring the burial sites of Tutankhamun and other pharaohs in Luxor's famed Valley of the Kings with British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves...
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6th October 1973 - Yom Kippur War Begins
Hoping to win back territory lost to Israel during the third Arab-Israeli war, Egyptian and Syrian forces launch a coordinated attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Taking the Israeli Defense Forces by surprise, Egyptian troops swept deep into the Sinai Peninsula, while Syria struggled to throw occupying Israeli troops out of the Golan Heights.
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Egypt has developed a game-changing low-power water desalination technique
About 71 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, but unfortunately most of that liquid nourishment isn’t suitable for drinking because it’s salt water found in the oceans. Removing salt from water is not an easy process, either. Current desalination technology requires a high amount of energy, making it prohibitively expensive — especially in developing nations. But don’t worry: a team of researchers at Alexandria University in Egypt...
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‘ScanPyramids’ project hopes to decipher ancient secrets
Starting November, the pyramids of Giza will be subject to a non-invasive survey in an attempt to unravel their secrets four millennia after their construction.
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Nawal El Saadawi: ‘Do you feel you are liberated? I feel I am not’
As her books are reissued here, the formidable Nawal El Saadawi, 83, doctor, author, anti-FGM campaigner and voice of Egyptian feminism, is as combative as ever… By Rachel Cooke.
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Comic strips target sexual harassment on Cairo's metro
Posters seek to draw attention to the worsening treatment of women, as an increasing number say they feel unsafe in public.
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Russian plane 'completely destroyed' in Egypt crash
Search and rescue officer says all 224 passengers and crew on flight from Sharm el-Sheikh likely to have died in Sinai crash
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What Brought Down the Russian Metrojet Flight Over Egypt?
A malfunction or malice — and at who's hand? By Jeff Wise.
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