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Egypt's top government and financial officials sought to allay concerns Sunday about fallout from the global financial meltdown, saying the country's foreign currency reserves were secure and that they were ...

Just one kiss, he says, waving five Egyptian pounds at me. One kiss on the mouth, and he'll give me the equivalent of a dollar.

CAIRO, Egypt - America's opponents in the Middle East are gloating over the financial meltdown in the United States, painting it as divine retribution for past misdeeds against Muslims and the last gasps of a ...

A brief note from Archaeology Magazine on the third to fourth-century AD Roman fort at Umm el-Dabadib and the North Kharga Oasis Survey .

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt - An apartment building collapsed in the city of Alexandria on Egypt's northern coast overnight, killing at least 11 people, Egyptian state media said on Wednesday.Security sources said at ...

By Douglas Hamilton

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian Islamists in Gaza are stalling on an Egyptian plan to reconcile them with the secular PLO leadership in the West Bank, a senior official of the rival Fatah faction said on Thursday.

Responding to comments from Hamas officials who met Egyptian mediators in Cairo on Wednesday, Azzam al-Ahmad dismissed the Islamists' generally positive reaction to Egypt's proposal of a technocratic, unity government for the Gaza Strip as merely designed to buy time to consolidate their hold on the enclave.

Public disaffection with the government appears to have reached an all-time high.

Thursday, October 9, 2008 At least twelve bodies have been recovered from the rubble of an apartment building in Alexandria , Egypt .

In a ground-breaking deal, the British construction company Balfour Beatty agreed yesterday to pay 2.25m to settle bribery allegations over a 100m overseas contract.

CAIRO, Egypt : A police official says at least 10 people died when an apartment building collapsed in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria.

AT LEAST 11 people were killed in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria before dawn on Wednesday when a four-storey apartment block collapsed as families slept, a security official told AFP.

Eds: APNewsNow. By SALAH NASRAWI Associated Press Writer CAIRO, Egypt A police official says at least 10 people died when an apartment building collapsed in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria.

CAIRO: Egyptian police blocked an opposition convoy carrying medical supplies to the Rafah border crossing with the besieged Gaza Strip and arrested at least 30 activists on Monday, security officials said.

CAIRO, Egypt : Egyptian officials say a Muslim man has been killed by members of his wife's Christian family who broke into his house and opened fire.

After the iconic Parliament building and the National Theatre, the fire monster is at work in Egypt's textile district in El Mahalla El Kobra, reports Nermeen Edress.

A- Dozens of activists, mostly from Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood, were arrested Monday after attempting to send a supply convoy to the blockaded Gaza Strip, the organization and security officials ...

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At least 11 Egyptians were killed when an intercity bus collided head-on with a truck on a highway south of Cairo on Sunday, and 23 others were injured, security and medical sources said.

Leaders of Rival Fatah and Islamic Hamas movements said respectively on Saturday that they want to form a national unity government to rebuild the security forces and prepare for elections.

CAIRO, Egypt : An American member of al-Qaida pointed to economic troubles in the United States as proof that "the enemies of Islam" face defeat, in an English-language video released Saturday.