CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - National carrier Egyptair on Saturday resumed direct flights to Iraq after a break of 21 years, the airline's chairman Hussein Massoud told AFP.
"The first Cairo-Baghdad flight left today with about 30 passengers on board," he said, adding Egyptair would fly four times a week to Baghdad and three times to Arbil, capital of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan.
The service was scrap [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Egypt's leading human rights groups said on Wednesday they will complain to the United Nations that the ruling military and cabinet are cracking down on civil society groups.
The military has accused its critics of receiving foreign financing and the government earlier this month announced an investigation into their funding.
The complaint, provided to journalists, said " [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - (AFP) - An Egyptian-brokered halt to Palestinian rocket fire from the Gaza Strip appeared to be holding on Tuesday, with the Israeli military saying that calm had prevailed along the border overnight.
The truce was announced Sunday evening following four days of violence sparked by a series of shooting ambushes near Eilat in southern Israel on Thursday in which eight Israelis [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - There is no proof that Hosni Mubarak has cancer, the Al-Ahram newspaper said on Saturday, contradicting lawyers of the ousted Egyptian president who is on trial on charges of corruption and the murder of hundreds of demonstrators.
"All medical examinations show that Mubarak does not have cancer," the pro-government daily said.
Mubarak's lawyer Farid al-Deeb had claimed th [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Rockets from Gaza apparently targeting Israel landed across the border in Egypt on Sunday amid tensions after the deaths of policemen on the border and protests outside Israel's embassy.
Tensions between the Jewish state and the most populous Arab nation have surged since the deaths on Thursday of the police officers, killed as Israeli troops pursued militants responsible [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Egypt has decided to withdraw its ambassador from Israel to protest the deaths of five policemen killed on the border during retaliatory attacks on Palestinian militants, state television said Saturday.
"Egypt has decided to withdraw its ambassador to Israel until there is an official apology," it said.
The Egyptian government had asked "for an official apology from Israe [...]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - (AFP) - Israeli warplanes pounded the Gaza Strip and raided the Egyptian border, killing militants blamed for coordinated gun, grenade and bomb attacks that left eight Israelis dead.
Six Israeli civilians -- including two women -- as well as a soldier and a police officer died after the attacks Thursday in the desert near the Red Sea resort of Eilat. A [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Egyptian police shot dead two sub-Saharan migrants, one of them Sudanese, as they tried to cross illegally into Israel, police officials and medics said on Thursday.
The men were shot dead Wednesday night as they tried to climb over barbed wire along the border, they said, adding that they had not yet identified the second dead migrant. Five Sudanese migrants in the group [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - An Egyptian security chief said on Thursday a military operation in Sinai against militants uncovered a bomb-making factory and netted 20 wanted men, including Palestinians and radical Islamists.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed Egypt to ensure security in the Sinai following a deadly attack across the border in Israel on Thursday that killed seven [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Egypt's military said on Thursday it has dropped charges against prominent blogger Asmaa Mahfouz of insulting the country's ruling generals after a wave of criticism from rights groups.
The military, in a statement on its Facebook page, said it also decided to drop charges against another activist, Loai Nagati, who also faced trial by a military court for insulting the gen [...]
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