| February 26, 2009 | -
Hamas and Fatah held peace talks in Cairo.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| February 1, 2008 | -
Egypt and India were afflicted with limited Internet service.
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Internet Limping Back to Normalcy
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| January 29, 2008 | - Remnants of a 7,000-year-old city were found in Egypt's Fayyum oasis.
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Ruins of 7,000-year-old city found in Egypt oasis
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| June 28, 2007 | -
Egypt outlawed female circumcision.
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BBCnews.com
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| May 26, 2007 | -
Cairo customs officials prevented a smuggler from carrying 700 snakes onto a plane bound for Saudi Arabia.
| Source:
USA Today
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| May 22, 2007 | - An Egyptian jurist at Al-Azhar University was disciplined for issuing a fatwa that permitted women to breastfeed adult men.
| Source:
BBC
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| May 3, 2007 | - Officials from more than 50 countries gathered in Egypt and issued a five-year “International Compact” aimed at stabilizing Iraq.
| Source:
The Daily Star Egypt
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| April 3, 2007 | - Dr. Zahi Hawass of Egypt dismissed the Exodus story of the Jews as a “myth.”
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 26, 2007 | - At the Gaza‒Egypt border a woman with three baby crocodiles strapped to her waist was detained after guards noticed that she looked “strangely fat.”
| Source:
AP via New York Times
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| November 24, 2006 | - A conference of Muslim scholars in Cairo denounced female circumcision.
| Source:
BBC
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| July 30, 2006 | - In Cairo, Muslims took to the street carrying posters of Hassan Nasrallah, chanting "O Sunni! O Shiite! Let's fight the Jews.”
| Source:
NY Times
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| April 25, 2006 | - In Dahab, Egypt, three bombings killed 30 people.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| April 9, 2006 | - The U.S. military announced that 1,313 Iraqi civilians had been killed in the sectarian violence of March. "Civil war," said Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, "has almost started among Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds, and those who are coming from Asia."
| Source 1:
BBC News
Source 2:
Chron.com
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| March 8, 2006 | - The U.S. State Department issued a report criticizing human rights abuses in China, North Korea, Iran, and Cuba. It also criticized the rights records of Jordan and Egypt, two countries where the United States has sent detainees to be interrogated. The report noted that the United States' "own journey towards liberty and justice for all has been long and difficult," and is "far from complete."
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
The Independent
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| February 18, 2006 | - Another person died from bird
flu in Iraq. The flu was also found in poultry in Germany, France, and Egypt, and 50,000 chickens died from the disease in India.
| Source 1:
Bloomberg News
Source 2:
People's Daily Online
Source 3:
BBC News
Source 4:
China View
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| February 4, 2006 | - The IAEA voted to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council because of Iran's nuclear program; Venezuela, Cuba, and Syria voted against the measure. Prior to the vote, Egypt proposed to make the Middle East a nuclear-free zone, but that proposal was rejected by the United States because it would interfere with Israel's weapons program.
| Source:
BBC News
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| February 3, 2006 | - About 1,300 people drowned when an Egyptian
ferry, the al-Salam Boccaccio '98, sank in the Red Sea.
| Source:
BBC News
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| December 30, 2005 | - Twenty Sudanese migrants, protesting their treatment in Egypt, were killed by Egyptian police.
| Source:
BBC News
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| May 27, 2005 | - Brigadier General Jay Hood, Guantánamo Bay's commander, said that an investigation at Guantánamo Bay had uncovered five incidents of Koran abuse, but none involved toilets; protesters rallied against Koran abuse in Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, Malaysia, and in Lebanon, where they chanted “America is the biggest Satan.”
| Source:
BBC News
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| April 29, 2005 | -
Egypt was planning to cut down on noise pollution in Cairo by stopping individual calls to prayer from the city's four thousand mosques; instead, the call to prayer will be centralized.
| Source:
BBC News
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| March 12, 2005 | - A television exploded in Egypt, killing four children.
| Source:
National Post
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| February 19, 2005 | - In Egypt, a team of thirteen doctors removed a second, “parasitic” head from a baby girl.
| Source:
Reuters
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| February 2, 2005 | -
Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to attend a peace summit in Egypt.
| Source:
CBC News
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| December 12, 2004 | -
Israel promised to release dozens of Palestinian prisoners as a favor to Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak before the Palestinian election.
| Source:
AP
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| December 3, 2004 | - Hours before a registration deadline, Marwan Barghouti gave word from his prison cell in Israel, where he is serving five life sentences, that he would run for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority. Barghouti's popularity among Palestinian youths has caused fears that he could siphon votes from PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas and cause a split in the Fatah Party; Palestinian leaders urged Barghouti to withdraw his candidacy, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak endorsed Abbas, and Ariel Sharon said Barghouti would be able to campaign only from behind bars.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 17, 2004 | -
Locusts invaded Cairo.
| Source:
Reuters
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| November 17, 2004 | -
Egypt decided to allow foreign belly dancers.
| Source:
ABC13, AP
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| November 7, 2004 | -
Egypt rejected claims that it had secret nuclear ambitions.
| Source:
AP
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| October 10, 2004 | - Bombings in three Egyptian resort towns killed at least 33 people and wounded 149. Many of the victims were vacationing Israelis.
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 24, 2004 | - An Egyptian diplomat was kidnapped.
| Source:
Telegraph
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| April 27, 2004 | - Archaeologists found an underground Egyptian maze filled with mummies.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| January 4, 2004 | - A charter flight from Egypt to Paris crashed into the Red Sea, killing 148 people, mostly French tourists.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 22, 2003 | -
German
chemists discovered the secret ingredient in the preservation of Egyptian mummies.
| Source:
Reuters
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| August 19, 2003 | -
Egypt banned foreign belly dancers.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 11, 2003 | -
Egypt banned the new Matrix movie.
| Source:
CBC
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| October 9, 2001 | - A new library opened in Alexandria, Egypt, though it did not yet have a budget for books.
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| July 24, 2001 | -
Egypt put on trial 52 men suspected of being gay.
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| July 24, 2001 | - A spokesman for Egypt's Human Rights Center for the Assistance of Prisoners declared, “No one has the right to be queer, because this goes against nature.”
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| July 17, 2001 | - A 16-year-old Egyptian boy threatened to jump in the Nile if his girlfriend didn't kiss him and then did so, whereupon he drowned.
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| May 29, 2001 | -
Doctors in Egypt removed a 100-pound cyst from the stomach of a 17-year-old girl.
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| March 13, 2001 | - An Egyptian shepherd was shot and killed by one of his sheep.
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| March 6, 2001 | - Important clerics in Egypt, Pakistan, and Iran pointed out that the Mullah's interpretation of the Koran was incorrect. Mawlawi Qudratullah Jamal, the Taliban's minister of information and culture, replied that it was “not a big issue,” that the statues were “objects only made of mud or stone.” After announcing that the destruction of the Buddhas had begun, Jamal noted that “it is easier to destroy than to build.”
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| January 30, 2001 | -
Egypt began enforcing a seat-belt law; drivers were mounting strips of cotton in their cars, securing them with safety clips.
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| November 21, 2000 | - Five people died in election violence in Egypt.
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| March 0, 2000 | -
Egypt, which has no cases of the flu, ordered all its pigs killed, especially slum pigs; police at Manshiyat Nasr slum fired tear gas and rubber bullets at rioting Coptic Christian pig farmers.
| Source 1:
MSNBC
Source 2:
BBC
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