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Headline: Egypt Sentences 22 Militants To Death By Hanging

Online Radio November 25, 2021

An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced to death by hanging 22 Islamist militants for 54 attacks including the attempted assassination of a former interior minister, a judicial source said.

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News

Egypt Lifts State Of Emergency In Force Since 2017

Online Radio October 26, 2021

The President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has announced the lifting of the state of emergency that has been in place since deadly jihadist attacks on Coptic Christian churches in 2017. Since April 2017 bombings of two Coptic churches by an Islamic State group affiliate that killed more than 40 […]

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Everything Else

Suez Canal: Ever Given Container Ship Finally Freed

Oluwaseye Ogunsanya March 29, 2021

Shipping activity is set to resume at the Suez Canal after the Ever Given, a ship stuck in the waterway, was freed. Ever Given, a vessel headed for Rotterdam, got stuck in the canal on Tuesday, March 23. 🌇 #مشاريعمصر🇪🇬| هيئة قناة السويس تعلن نجاح جهود تعويم سفينة الحاويات الجانحة […]

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Headlines

Headline: Egypt Races To Free Giant Vessel Blocking Suez Canal

Oluwaseye Ogunsanya March 26, 2021

A maritime traffic jam grew to more than 200 vessels outside the Suez Canal and some vessels began changing course as dredgers worked frantically to free a giant container ship that is stuck sideways in the waterway and disrupting global shipping.

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Headlines

Headline: Train Collision Kills 32 After Emergency Brake Triggered In Egypt

Oluwaseye Ogunsanya March 26, 2021

At least 32 people were killed and 66 injured on Friday when two trains collided in Egyptian city of Sohag, the health ministry said. The collision caused three passenger cars to flip over and videos on local media from the scene showed wagons with passengers trapped inside and surrounded by […]