CAIRO, Egypt – A furniture factory burned down in the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. Said fire records 25 dead and 22 injured. (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/YxuYl4s1-bA
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Former Egyptian leader Morsi sentenced to 20 years in prison
AN Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced former president Mohamed Morsi to 20 years in prison for the torture and killing of opposition protesters in 2012 clashes. Morsi was on trial along with 12 other members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhoodgroup and the sentencing of one of Morsi’s several trials lasted just four minutes. “As a representative of the injured protesters, the verdict was satisfactory. However, it definitely wasn’t for the families of those killed in the […]
A woman in Egypt pretended to be a man to feed her family
In Egypt, a 64-year old woman pretended to be a man to be able to work so that her family can survive.
Egypt bombs ISIS targets inside Libya in response to beheadings
Egypt’s air force bombed Islamic State targets inside Libya on Monday, the first time Egypt confirmed launching air strikes against the group suggesting President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is ready to escalate his battle against the militants. Cairo residents, speaking to Reuters, reacted on Monday (February 16) with distress and disgust at the news that Islamic State appeared to have beheaded 21 Christian Egyptians in Libya. The 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians, who had gone to Libya in […]
School bus crash in Egypt kills 16 – state news
(Reuters) — At least 16 people, mostly children, were killed on Wednesday (November 5) when a school bus crashed into three other vehicles on a desert road in the Nile Deltanorth of Cairo, state television said. Photos published online by privately-owned news outlets showed the bus engulfed in flames and later reduced to a charred metal frame, suggesting many of the victims were burned alive. Eighteen people were also wounded in the crash and transported to hospital, a local […]
Military aircraft in Egypt
In Egypt, a military aircraft crashed, killing six of its crew. Reports said that the crash occurred in a training flight. One crew member survived said crash. The crash was caused by a technical failure.
Egypt jails Al Jazeera journalists, U.S. calls sentences ‘chilling’
(Reuters) – Three Al Jazeera journalists were jailed for seven years each by an Egyptian judge on Monday, in what Washington called “chilling, draconian sentences” that must be reversed. Cairo defended the journalists’ convictions – for aiding a “terrorist organisation” – and rejected the widespread condemnation as “interference in its internal affairs”. The three, who all denied the charge of working with the now banned Muslim Brotherhood, included Australian Peter Greste and Canadian-Egyptian national Mohamed […]
Ousted Egyptian leader Mubarak gets three years in jail for embezzling millions
(Reuters) – Deposed former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison for embezzling millions in public funds for lavish renovations to family properties. The verdict may please some Egyptians who lived through three decades of autocracy under Mubarak before a 2011 uprising toppled him. But business executives still loyal to him remain influential and rights groups say the abusive security practices of his era remain alive and well today […]
Egypt court acquits 169 Brotherhood supporters
(Reuters) – An Egyptian court acquitted 169 Muslim Brotherhood supporters charged in connection with unrest that followed the overthrow of president Mohamed Mursi last year, breaking a pattern of mass convictions at trials involving the Islamist opposition. The men were charged with “illegal gathering” in relation to violence in Cairo on August 16 last year, two days after the security forces killed hundreds of Mursi supporters while breaking up their protest camps in the capital. […]
Egyptian militants warn tourists to leave or face attack
(Reuters) – A militant Islamist group has warned tourists to leave Egypt and threatened to attack any who stay in the country after February 20, raising the prospect of a new front in a fast-growing insurgency. The Sinai-based Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis group, which claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed two South Korean tourists and an Egyptian on Sunday, made the statement on an affiliated Twitter account. “We recommend tourists to get out safely […]
Egypt army hits Sinai militants; new group claims Cairo bomb
By Tom Perry CAIRO Sat Feb 8, 2014 1:57pm EST (Reuters) – The Egyptian army said on Saturday it had killed 16 Islamists in Sinai, and a new group said it carried out a bomb attack on police in Cairo, underscoring the widening scope of militant violence since the army removed Mohamed Mursi from power. The army said its aircraft hit radical Islamists near Sinai’s border with the Gaza Strip on Friday evening. A statement […]
