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Tourist bus bombing near Giza pyramids kills three

A roadside bomb hit a tourist bus Friday in an area near the Giza pyramids, killing two Vietnamese tourists and an Egyptian tour guide and wounding 11 other people, Egypt’s Interior Ministry said in a statement. It said the bus was traveling in the Marioutiyah area near the pyramids when the...

Gazans continue border protests for 40th Friday in row

For the 40th consecutive Friday, Palestinians converged along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone to take part in ongoing demonstrations against Israel’s decades-long occupation.   In a statement, Gaza’s National Authority for Breaking the Siege urged Gazans to take part in the ongoing...

Sudanese FM meets Egyptian counterpart in Khartoum

The Sudanese and Egyptian foreign ministers met in Khartoum on Thursday, where they reiterated calls for a peaceful solution to the ongoing conflict in Syria. At a joint press conference, Sudanese FM Al-Dirdiri Mohamed Ahmed also said that Khartoum and Cairo planned to push peace...

Egypt jails Bro'hood leader for ‘insulting judiciary’

An Egyptian court has slapped a Muslim Brotherhood leader with two years behind bars for “insulting the judiciary”, according to Egypt’s official MENA news agency. Mohamed al-Beltagy, a leading member of Egypt’s banned Muslim Brotherhood group, was convicted Wednesday on charges...