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Saturday, 25 March 2017 CAIRO: Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president overthrown in 2011 and the first leader to face trial after the Arab Spring uprisings that swept the region, was freed on Friday after 6 years in detention, his lawyer said. The 88-year-old was cleared of the final murder charges …

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 …

Saturday, 11 March 2017   Mumbai – Indian doctors said Thursday that an Egyptian who is believed to be the world’s heaviest woman had successfully undergone weight-loss surgery after losing over 100 kilograms. Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, who previously weighed around 500 kilos, had not left her house in …

Tuesday, 28 February 2017 CAIRO: Egyptian airport security denied entry to a senior Palestinian official on Monday and deported him, sources at Cairo airport said. Jibril al-Rajoub, a confidant of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and a high-ranking member of the central committee of Abbas’s Fatah movement, was told he was …

Thursday, 16 Feb 2017 :  Egypt’s Eman Ahmed, believed to be the world’s heaviest woman weighing close to 500 kg, has arrived in Mumbai for a surgery that could potentially save her life. The 36-year-old, who is now settled at the Saifee Hospital in the city for at least the …

Saturday, 24 December 2016 WASHINGTON  – The United States State Department on Friday, December 23, warned Americans travelling to Egypt of threats from terror groups and noted that several bombing incidents had occurred this month, including a Coptic cathedral attack that killed at least 25 people. While Egypt has a …

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 …

Saturday, 12 November 2016 CAIRO: The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) executive board has approved a three-year, US$12bil (RM52.8bil) loan to Egypt to support its economic reform programme. Its board’s approval allows for an disbursement of an initial tranche of US$2.75bil (RM12.1bil) of the loan. The remaining amount will be phased …

Tuesday, 22 August 2017 :  Qatar will build a stadium shaped like an Arabian skull cap for the 2022 World Cup, organisers said on Sunday, as the Gulf state moves ahead with preparations for the tournament despite a diplomatic rift with its neighbours. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United …

Saturday, 12 August 2017 :  At least 36 people were killed and more than 100 injured after a train crash in Egypt, a health ministry spokesman said on Friday (August 11). Two trains collided in the coastal city of Alexandria, near the suburban Khorshid station en route to Cairo, derailing …