CAIRO (AFP) - Egyptian academic Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid, who was forced into exile and ordered to divorce his wife after being judged to be an apostate, died on Monday in Cairo, his wife said.
Abu Zeid, 67, died at Sheikh Zayed hospital where he was being treated for a month after falling ill following a trip to Indonesia, said his wife, literature professor Ibtihal Yunes.
A Cairo court had [...]
ALGIERS (AFP) - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak arrived in Algiers Sunday to extend condolences to Algeria's leader upon the death of his brother, in a sign of improving ties between the North African nations.
Mubarak, accompanied by Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit, will meet President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to express his sympathy over Mustapha Bouteflika, who died after a long [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - After a 23-year effort, archaeologists have uncovered a secret tunnel in the tomb of Seti I, who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago, the culture minister said on Wednesday.
The Egyptian team, headed by antiquities chief Zahi Hawass, had been "searching for this tunnel for over twenty years in the West Bank necropolis" of Luxor, south Egypt, Faruq Hosni said in a statement [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - Two police officers were jailed on Wednesday for four days pending an investigation into the death of a 28-year-old man reportedly killed after they beat him to death, a security official said.
"The prosecutor in (the northern city of Alexandria) has ordered the detention for four days of Mahmud Salah Amin and Awad Ismail Suleiman, pending an investigation into the circumsta [...]
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