Tag Archives: Cairo

Saturday, 11 March 2017   CAIRO: Archaeologists from Egypt and Germany have found a massive eight-metre statue submerged in ground water in a Cairo slum that they say probably depicts revered Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago. The discovery, hailed by the Antiquities Ministry as …

Monday, 23 January 2017 CAIRO – Egypt’s Museum of Islamic Art, home to one of the world’s most important collections of Islamic artefacts, is welcoming visitors for the first time since it was damaged in a car bombing three years ago. First opened in 1903, the museum was closed in …

Monday, 12 December 2016 CAIRO—A bombing in Cairo killed six members of the security forces and wounded three others on Friday, Egypt’s interior ministry said, in the deadliest attack on the country’s military in the capital since May. The bomb exploded between two police checkpoints on the main road leading …

Monday, 3 July 2017 CAIRO (Reuters) – Foreign ministers from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain will meet in Cairo on Wednesday to discuss Qatar, Egypt said on Sunday. “At the invitation of Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, there will be a quartet meeting of the foreign ministers …

Tuesday, 11 April 2017 VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis’ trip to Egypt this month is expected to go ahead despite twin attacks on Christian churches that killed 44 people, Vatican officials said on Monday. However, diplomats and Vatican sources cautioned that the trip could be put in jeopardy or parts of …