The Local Germany reports that the German government has called on Egypt to help find a German journalist who has disappeared – feared kidnapped – in Cairo after receiving death threats from Islamic extremists. Hamed Abdel-Samad’s brother told Egyptian news site youm7 he feared the writer had been kidnapped after he disappeared from near the Al-Azhar park in Cairo on Sunday afternoon. The German Foreign Ministry has set up a crisis team to try to find Abdel-Samed, who writes for politics magazine Cicero and wrote a book in 2009 about Islam called Mein Abschied vom Himmel (My Farewell from Heaven). Read article
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Reuters.com reported that, a gunmen have opened fire on a famous Cairo hotel located on the road to the pyramids, state-run Al-Ahram online reported on Friday. Read Article
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According to egyptindependent.com, four unidentified foreign tourists drowned on Friday evening while they were swimming in the Mediterranean at a beach in Marsa Matrouh, northeast Cairo. Residents found three of the bodies, of two males and a female, while the fourth body remains missing. The bodies of the deceased were transferred to the morgue of […]
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A retired American army officer has been found dead in a provincial Egyptian jail, six weeks after being arrested in Egypt’s restive north Sinai peninsula, Egyptian officials have confirmed. James Henry, 66, is the second foreigner to die in police custody since the July overthrow of Mohamed Morsi, and one of several to have fallen […]
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As reported by AlArabiya.net, Egypt has detained a Turkish citizen on suspicion of spying and collusion with the Muslim Brotherhood, the state news agency MENA said on Saturday. The arrest could be a new source of tension between Ankara and Cairo whose relations have all but broken down since Mohammad Mursi, whose Muslim Brotherhood has […]
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(Reuters) – The Egyptian interior minister survived an assassination attempt unscathed on Thursday when a car bomb blew up his convoy and he said afterwards that a wave of terrorism by opponents of the military-installed government was just beginning. The minister, Mohamed Ibrahim, had been involved in overseeing a violent crackdown on supporters of Mohamed […]
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According to an Al Jazeera report, Suez Canal authorities have said that a “terrorist” staged an unsuccessful attack on a container ship passing through the canal. The attack was said to be an attempt to disrupt the flow of ships through the waterway. The Suez Canal is a key global shipping lane, and secured by […]
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According to stuff.co.nz, a New Zealand journalist is being held by Egyptian authorities – the latest arrest in what organisations are calling a “growing hostility” towards reporters. Former TVNZ reporter Wayne Hay, who has been reporting for Al Jazeera since 2006, has been in Egypt for less than a year. He was one of four […]
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As reported by Nst.com.my, prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said that the decision was made due to the uncertainties in the country. “I have received the report from the National Security Council and I was told that the situation in Egypt is uncertain. So we have decided to bring the students back starting tonight,” […]
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Hurriyet Daily News reports that officials from the Turkish Embassy in Cairo have conducted a lengthy meeting with Metin Turan, a TRT correspondent who was detained this weekend at el-Fath Mosque, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Levent Gümrükçü has announced. In a message posted on his Twitter account on Aug. 19, Gümrükçü said Turan was safe and […]
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