Mubarak arrives in Jordan for talks with king

AQABA, Jordan: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak arrived in Aqaba for talks with King Abdullah II on aiding the Palestinians amid a growing Western boycott, an official with Jordan s royal…

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Egypt renews state of emergency for two years

CAIRO: Egypt s parliament approved the renewal of the state of emergency for two years Sunday, a controversial measure the country s premier justified with a recent wave of bombings…

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One killed as Egypt sweeps Sinai for bomb suspects

CAIRO: An Egyptian was killed Sunday in clashes that broke out when police raided northern Sinai to hunt down the group responsible for the deadly bombings in Dahab, the interior…

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Egypt detains two in bomb attack investigations

CAIRO: Egyptian police have detained two men they said drove people suspected of involvement in bomb attacks in the resort of Dahab and north Sinai, the state MENA news agency…

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Emergency law fails to quell terror, say activists

CAIRO: Activists say that a triple bomb attack in the Red Sea resort town of Dahab on Monday is proof that a long-standing emergency law is ineffective in combating terror.…

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UCLA Egyptologists launching online encyclopedia

WASHINGTON: Frustrated with the poor quality of many Web sites dealing with ancient Egypt, a professor at the University of California has decided to create a massive online encyclopedia devoted…

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Qatari woman imprisoned by family for marrying Egyptian

DOHA: Inside a luxurious compound, a Qatari woman has been made a prisoner in her bedroom and sometimes starved and beaten for shaming her family by fleeing Doha in 2002…

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Word on the Street

CAIRO: On Monday, Egypt and the entire region were rocked by the triple bombings that struck Dahab in the Sinai and claimed the lives of 24 people, while injuring dozens…

Ahmad Aboul-Wafa

Police use force to disperse protestors in Egypt

CAIRO: Police attacked demonstrators Thursday rallying in support of two pro-reform judges who had been hauled before a disciplinary board for accusing the judiciary of helping fix elections. The hearing,…

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Calls to prayer to be synchronized in Cairo

CAIRO: The government has agreed to buy 4,000 wireless receivers for a project to synchronize the call to prayer from all state-run mosques in the Cairo area, the state news…

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