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An Egyptian policeman has been reportedly killed on Friday in a gunfight near the border with Israel and another officer is in a coma after being shot in the head.
Security officials said that it was not still known who had attacked the police...
Egypt's military chief of staff Sami Enan headed to Sinai on Friday to probe the deaths of three policemen killed by Israeli gunfire the previous day, a military source said.
"Enan will head a committee that will investigate the deaths of...
WASHINGTON--The United States pressed Egypt Thursday to follow through on promises to ensure security in the Sinai following a string of attacks in southern Israel said to have been staged from the desert region.
The White House...
BENGHAZI, Libya - Fighting raged across Libya on Tuesday after rebels denied they were in talks with Muammer Qadhafi's tottering regime and Washington said the embattled strongman's "days are numbered."
Sources close to the...
Greek police on Sunday detained 67 Egyptians who had fled Libya to Italy on a fishing boat that was found close to sinking off the Greek island of Crete, the police said.
The detainees include five people who were sailing the boat. They will face...
GAZA CITY - The Palestinian movement Hamas and the US Agency for International Development have reached a compromise to maintain the flow of aid, a senior Hamas official said yesterday.
“We’ve reached a compromise with USAID through the...
THE HAGUE — Oil giant Shell is battling an oil leak in a North Sea pipeline off the British coast, a company spokesman for the Anglo-Dutch company said Friday.
"We have discovered a leak in a flow line between a well and a production...
The US embassy in Cairo issued a strongly-worded defence of its aid to Egypt as prosecutors probed foreign funding of civil society groups amid signs of tensions between Washington and Egypt's ruling generals.
The State Security...
The legal arm of a notorious Egyptian intelligence apparatus is probing foreign funding of civil society groups amid signs of tensions between Washington and Egypt's ruling generals, judicial sources said on Friday.
The investigation by the...
Egypt on Friday blasted Israel's approval of 1,600 new homes in an east Jerusalem settlement as a "major obstacle" to the start of new peace talks with the Palestinians.
"We cannot accept this, we condemn it categorically,"...
