• Investigators can't download EgyptAir recorders, says U.S. official

    Investigators can't download EgyptAir recorders, says U.S. official

    Jun 23, 2016 06:34 PM EST

    WASHINGTON — Initial attempts to download information from the flight data and voice recorders of an EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean last month have been unsuccessful, according to a U.S. official. The recorders are being flown to the offices of the French aviation accident investigation bureau near Paris ...

  • Egypt finalizes death ruling for Al Jazeera journalists tried in abstentia

    Egypt finalizes death ruling for Al Jazeera journalists tried in abstentia

    Jun 18, 2016 06:32 PM EST

    ... and became the presidential incumbent in 2014. El-Sissi has since cracked down on opponents of his regime, including the Muslim Brotherhood, which was once Egypt’s most-organized political group and of which Morsi is a member. Relations between Qatar and Egypt have been cool since Morsi, who was ...

  • Egypt says it has found the wreckage from missing EgyptAir plane

    Egypt says it has found the wreckage from missing EgyptAir plane

    Jun 15, 2016 10:30 PM EST

    A search vessel has spotted "several main locations of the wreckage" from an EgyptAir airplane that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last month, Egyptian investigators announced Wednesday. An Egyptian committee said in a statement today that the vessel has provided the first images of the wreckage, the Associated Press reported ...

  • Egypt sends submarine to search for clues about EgyptAir crash that killed 66

    Egypt sends submarine to search for clues about EgyptAir crash that killed 66

    May 21, 2016 06:20 PM EST

    In his first public address since an EgyptAir flight mysteriously plummeted into the Mediterranean and killed 66 on Thursday, Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said Sunday he has sent a submarine to continue a search for clues. Scant evidence has made it hard to know what caused flight ...

  • Families weep as debris from EgyptAir disaster found in the Mediterranean Sea

    Families weep as debris from EgyptAir disaster found in the Mediterranean Sea

    May 20, 2016 11:40 PM EST

    ... God bless all who died on the plane. JOHN YANG: Their hopes dashed by the discovery of wreckage from the Airbus A-320 announced on Egyptian state television. WOMAN (through interpreter): We have just received an official report from the Egyptian army. Military airplanes have been able to locate wreckage ...

  • Solving the mystery of vanished EgyptAir Flight 804

    Solving the mystery of vanished EgyptAir Flight 804

    May 19, 2016 11:30 PM EST

    ... HARI SREENIVASAN: We return to EgyptAir Flight 804 and what could have happened to it. Deborah Hersman served as chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board from 2009 to 2014 and is now president of the National Safety Council, a nonprofit organization devoted to reducing preventable deaths and injuries ...

  • EgyptAir plane carrying 66 crashes; terrorism possible, officials say

    EgyptAir plane carrying 66 crashes; terrorism possible, officials say

    May 19, 2016 11:15 AM EST

    An EgyptAir airplane flying from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers aboard crashed into the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday morning. Egyptian officials said they can't rule out terrorism at this point. The Egyptian army said Friday it had found wreckage from the aircraft and some of the passengers' belongings ...

  • War and sexuality overlap in Egyptian-American playwright's work

    War and sexuality overlap in Egyptian-American playwright's work

    May 03, 2016 03:24 PM EST

    ... learn about what happened to the central character, Leila,” El Guindi said. The genesis of the play stems from events that occurred during the 2011 Egyptian revolution, when a number of women were sexually assaulted. Stories of immigrants, particularly Arab-Americans, are a common thread in many of El Guindi ...

  • Egyptian hijacker in custody after hours-long standoff

    Egyptian hijacker in custody after hours-long standoff

    Mar 29, 2016 01:41 PM EST

    ... Minister Sharif Fathi, reported the Associated Press. The man’s motives were unclear, but Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades said the hijacking was not terrorism-related. EgyptAir flight MS181 took off Tuesday morning from the coastal city of Alexandria, Egypt, bound for Cairo with 55 passengers and seven crew members. The ...

  • How’s the revolution going? Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef answers (satirically)

    How’s the revolution going? Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef answers (satirically)

    Feb 17, 2016 12:50 AM EST

    ... has been tumultuous. Our coverage of these 5 Years On concludes with a conversation with a man who's often called the Jon Stewart of Egypt. Jeffrey Brown has our story. JEFFREY BROWN: As revolution swept through Egypt in 2011, Bassem Youssef and several friends started a political satire show ...