Cairo - Prominent Islamist lawyers alleged Wednesday that Egyptian security forces conducted a campaign of mass arrests in the wake of a bombing that struck a popular tourist area in Cairo in February.
Mamdouh Ismail, a former member of the armed Islamist group Islamic Jihad and now a defence attorney specialising in terrorism-related cases, on Wednesday told the German Press Agency dpa that "at least 100 Salafists,"
Cairo - Security officials at Cairo's airport on Tuesday detained a Turkish man they said was trying smuggle antiquities out of Egypt, airport authorities said.
A source in the Cairo airport, speaking on to the German News Agency dpa on condition of anonymity, said the man was trying to carry out 27 Coptic Christian artifacts, including three antique bibles, textiles, and old sheets of papyrus bearing paintings of geometric shapes, animals and birds.
Cairo - At least four people were killed and 15 others injured when a tour bus crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, police and medics said on Monday.
All of the dead were Egyptians, but the injured included people "of various nationalities," police told the German Press Agency dpa.
Most of the wounded were rushed to hospitals in Nakhil, in central Sinai, medics said, but five of the injured passengers were in critical condition and were rushed to a larger hospital in Suez.
Cairo - Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak will not attend the Arab summit in Doha scheduled on March 30-31, the State Middle East News Agency (MENA) quoted Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul-Gheit as saying on Saturday.
Aboul-Gheit did not indicate the reason for Mubarak's non- attendance at the meeting, which was to review issues of reconciliation within the Arab camp, although a rift over Doha's diplomatic stances is believed to be behind the announcement.
Egypt is to send a lower-level delegation to Doha.
Cairo - A deal on the exchange of Israeli and Hamas prisoners may come within the next 24 hours, a Hamas representative has told a leading Arabic-language daily.
The next 24 hours could prove "decisive" in Egyptian-mediated indirect talks between Israeli and Hamas in Cairo, an anonymous Hamas politician told the regional Arabic daily al-Hayat in remarks published Friday. The paper said a deal may be "imminent."
Cairo - Prominent Islamist lawyers alleged Wednesday that Egyptian security forces conducted a campaign of mass arrests in the wake of a bombing that struck a popular tourist area in Cairo in February.
Cairo - Security officials at Cairo's airport on Tuesday detained a Turkish man they said was trying smuggle antiquities out of Egypt, airport authorities said.
Cairo - At least four people were killed and 15 others injured when a tour bus crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, police and medics said on Monday.
Cairo - Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak will not attend the Arab summit in Doha scheduled on March 30-31, the State Middle East News Agency (MENA) quoted Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul-Gheit as saying on Saturday.
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Cairo - A deal on the exchange of Israeli and Hamas prisoners may come within the next 24 hours, a Hamas representative has told a leading Arabic-language daily.
