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Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt block access to Qatari-owned news website
Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates are blocking access to a Qatari-owned news website in a sign of escalating tension in the region. A spokesperson for Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, which runs The...
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As Britain resumes flights to Sharm el-Sheikh, will the country recover from...
Yet as tourist numbers dwindle in the wake of the alleged bombing of a Russian passenger jet – and the subsequent halt of all flights from the UK – many of these young men worry they will lose their...
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Egypt To Try 6 Reporters For Allegedly Defaming Minister
CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian prosecutor has referred six local journalists to trial for allegedly spreading “false news” that defamed the justice minister. Prosecutor Fathy Bayoumi said Wednesday that the...
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'Travel agency to blame' for Egyptian airstrikes that killed Mexican tourists
An official Egyptian investigation into an airstrike on a group of Mexican tourists that killed 12 people has suggested a travel agency they hired was to blame, according to Mexico’s foreign minister....
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Masked gunmen shoot at tourist bus and hotel near Cairo's pyramids
Egyptian government officials said the men were among a gang who had amassed nearby, who went on to shoot “cartridges” towards the hotel, a short drive from Cairo’s most famous ancient site. “There...
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Merry Christmas (again)!: Orthodox Christians celebrate Jesus' birth, in...
Followers of the Julian calendar in 16 countries, including Egypt, Ukraine and Serbia hold celebrations to mark the Orthodox Christmas Day Women in traditional Ukrainian dress gather to celebrate the...
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At Least 2 Foreign Tourists Injured As Gunmen Attack Egyptian Hotel
CAIRO, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Gunmen opened fire at the entrance of a hotel in the Egyptian Red Sea resort city of Hurghada on Friday, wounding two foreign tourists, security sources said. One of the...
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Egypt: gunmen open fire on tourists in Red Sea resort hotel
Gunmen opened fire at the entrance of a hotel in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada, wounding two foreign tourists, security sources have said. The assailants arrived by sea to launch the assault...
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Tourists wounded after gunmen open fire at hotel in Hurghada
Louisa Loveluck, Middle East Correspondent, has the latest: Three gunmen attacked a hotel in Egypt’s Red Sea resort town of Hurgada on Friday, hours after Isil claimed responsibility for another...
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James Zogby: Muslim Millennials' Views on Religion
At the close of 2015, Zogby Research Services (ZRS) conducted face to face polling of 5,374 Muslim youth between the ages of 15 to 34 in eight Arab countries: Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE,...
View ArticleEgypt hotel guests describe knife attack by suspected militants – video
Tourists at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada describe a stabbing attack by two suspected militants at the Bella Vista hotel on Friday night. An Egyptian hospital official said three foreign...
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Egypt: police officer and soldier shot dead near Cairo
A police officer and a soldier have been shot dead near Cairo a day after suspected Islamic State militants were killed while attempting to launch an assault on tourists at an Egyptian holiday resort....
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Egypt makes more tourist safety promises after Hurghada hotel attack
The Hurghada attack took place as tourists were having dinner on Friday night at the 270-room Bella Vista hotel in the popular Red Sea resort. Two men carrying knives stormed the restaurant, injuring...
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UK groups deny government claims they are linked to possible terrorists
British organisations criticised in an official report which branded members of the Muslim Brotherhood as “possible terrorists” have denied they have any link to the organisation. The Muslim...
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Daniel Wagner: Israel's Diplomatic Overture to the UAE
Last November Haaretz reported that Israel plans to open a rather unconventional mission in Abu Dhabi, which will mark Israel’s first diplomatic presence in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The move is...
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Egypt to spend £26m on X-ray machines and CCTV cameras at tourist resorts
Hisham Zaazou, Egypt’s Minister of Tourism, told Telegraph Travel that public security camera numbers at Sharm el-Sheikh will be doubled from around 100. He admitted that hotel occupancy was...
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Soumaya Ghannoushi: The Arab Spring Is Not Dead
As the flames ignited from the dusty town of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia spread from one Arab country to another, it seemed as if Arabs had finally emerged out of the long dark tunnel where they...
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The Arab spring: why did things go so badly wrong? | Adam Roberts
Five years ago this week, the first of several victories of the Arab spring was won in Tunisia. Popular and largely nonviolent demonstrations had begun just four weeks earlier in the country’s...
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Ex-CIA agent faces extradition to Italy for role in kidnapping of Egyptian...
A Portuguese court has decided to extradite an ex-CIA agent to Italy, where she has been convicted of involvement in the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric under the US “extraordinary rendition”...
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Tourists shun resorts from Egypt to Turkey in wake of Isis attacks
Off the windswept headland where the Red Sea’s Gulf of Aqaba meets the Gulf of Suez, a dozen divers trail bubbles during their descent towards the famous Shark Reef, one of the world’s most popular...
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