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After three years in detention, an Egyptian-American aid worker named Aya Hijazi is scheduled to walk free tomorrow, along with her husband and six other co-defendants, after being cleared of child abuse and human trafficking charges, her lawyers confirmed today. The case became emblematic of Egypt’s widespread ...
... accused countries, without specifying which ones, of contributing to Egypt’s instability and called for a three-month state of emergency, according to the AP. "Egyptians have foiled plots and efforts by countries and fascist, terrorist organizations that tried to control Egypt," he said. Egypt's Parliament must vote in ...
... behind President El-Sisi. He's done a fantastic job in a very difficult situation. We are very much behind Egypt and the people of Egypt. MARGARET WARNER: The Egyptian leader, facing an Islamist insurgency in Sinai, welcomed the president's words. ABDEL FATTAH EL-SISI, Egyptian President: Since we ...
... Obama. "This is my first state visit to the United States since my inauguration and this is the first visit in eight years for an Egyptian president to the United States," el-Sissi said. Obama never invited the Egyptian leader to the White House and Egypt's government was repeatedly ...
... the connection the two presidents established when they first met in New York last year. The visit raises questions about U.S. foreign aid to Egypt and al-Sisi's human rights record since he overthrew Egypt's first democratically-elected president in 2013. "New York Times" White House correspondent ...
CAIRO — Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and U.S. President Donald Trump will meet in Washington next month, Egypt's leading state-owned newspaper said on Sunday. Al-Ahram said in a front-page report the two leaders will meet during the first week of April, in what will ...
... will be questioned as soon as that is possible. An Egyptian Interior Ministry official confirmed to The Associated Press on Saturday that the attacker is Egyptian-born Abdullah Reda Refaie al-Hamahmy, who is 28, not 29 as widely reported. The official said an initial investigation in Egypt found no ...
... turning the page on this U.S.-Egypt relationship, which has had its ups and downs over the last few years? SAMEH SHOUKRY, Foreign Minister, Egypt: We're certainly looking forward for consolidating and strengthening the U.S.-Egyptian relationship. It is always our objective to have close ties with ...
... Nobel Prize for chemistry for using lasers to measure chemical reactions over infinitesimal time scales -- inventing so-called “femtochemistry” -- he became not only the first Egyptian but the first Arab to ever win a Nobel Prize in the sciences. But I first met Zewail in another context -- the Egyptian revolution ...
Hundreds of Egyptians, including students and children, have disappeared and been tortured under the guise of counterterrorism, according to an Amnesty International report released Wednesday. “An average of three to four people are abducted and arbitrarily subjected to enforced disappearance each day,” according to the report, which is based on ...
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