Cairo/Rafah - Egyptian police shot dead a Bedouin in the northern Sinai on Saturday, with the man found to be driving a truck loaded with munitions and heading for Gaza, a security official told the German Press Agency dpa. Both sides exchanged fire in the incident some 40 kilometres west of the city of Arish.
In a separate development, security sources disclosed that security forces have arrested five people with five million Egyptian pounds (some 1 million dollars) which they were planning to smuggle to Gaza through tunnels in Rafah.
Cairo- Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak met Thursday with Palestinian
President in Cairo, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported.
The
two reportedly discussed the Arab-Israeli peace process in light of the
new Israeli government, the current state of negotiations aimed at
forming a Palestinian "national unity" government, and the
reconstruction of the Gaza Strip following Israel's offensive there in
December and January.
Cairo - "God is not a policeman, grabbing perpetrators by their necks," Egyptian poet Helmi Salem wrote in his 2007 poem, On the Balcony of Leila Mourad.
"He is a simple villager, feeding the duck, checking the cow's udder with his fingers, crying: there is a plenty of milk."
When a lawyer brought a lawsuit against Salem and Ibdaa, the government-funded magazine that published the poem, charging them with "insulting the Divine Entity," Salem's defence attorney never expected it would go far.
Cairo - Egyptian security forces have arrested 49 men, including seven Israeli citizens and one Lebanese citizen, on charges of supporting Hamas and Hezbollah, the Interior Ministry and the lawyer for the men said on Wednesday.
The men, who were arrested in December from locations around Egypt, included 41 Egyptians, seven Arab Israelis, and at least one Lebanese man, a source in the Egyptian Interior Ministry, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the German News Agency dpa on Wednesday.
Last April 6, teargas filled the streets of the Nile Delta industrial town of Mahalla al-Kobra as rioters firebombed buildings, hurled rocks at riot police, and toppled a freestanding poster of Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak. At least two people were killed in clashes with the police and dozens more were wounded.
The riots followed violence in bread queues at government-subsidized bakeries, as spiraling wheat prices drove more of the country's urban poor to rely on subsidized bread.
Cairo, April 4 : An embalming bed used by ancient Egyptians to prepare the deceased for mummification has been discovered by chance in Luxor, Egypt.
According to a report in Al-Ahram Weekly, a number of wooden plaques that were found inside a jar unearthed in tomb KV63 at the Valley of the Kings on Luxor's west bank have proved to be the remains of a mummification bed, following weeks of restoration work.
Cairo/Rafah - Egyptian police shot dead a Bedouin in the northern Sinai on Saturday, with the man found to be driving a truck loaded with munitions and heading for Gaza, a security official told the German Press Agency dpa. Both sides exchanged fire in the incident some 40 kilometres west of the city of Arish.
Cairo- Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak met Thursday with Palestinian
Cairo - "God is not a policeman, grabbing perpetrators by their necks," Egyptian poet Helmi Salem wrote in his 2007 poem, On the Balcony of Leila Mourad.
Cairo - Egyptian security forces have arrested 49 men, including seven Israeli citizens and one Lebanese citizen, on charges of supporting Hamas and Hezbollah, the Interior Ministry and the lawyer for the men said on Wednesday.
Cairo - What a difference a year makes in Egypt.
Cairo, April 4 : An embalming bed used by ancient Egyptians to prepare the deceased for mummification has been discovered by chance in Luxor, Egypt.
