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... JUDY WOODRUFF: Russia suspended all flights to Egypt today, and the U.S. stepped up security efforts, as the search continues for answers to what brought down that Russian plane. The passenger jet crashed over the Sinai Peninsula last Saturday, killing all 224 people on board. Margaret Warner has ...
... HARI SREENIVASAN: The crash of a Russian jetliner in Egypt morphed into an international dispute today on whether a bomb was behind it. All 224 people on board were killed when the plane broke up Saturday, just 23 minutes after taking of from Sharm el-Sheikh. Now the leaders ...
MIAMI -- Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Thursday stood by his belief that Egypt's great pyramids were built by the biblical figure Joseph to store grain -- not as tombs for pharaohs. Video posted online Wednesday by Buzzfeed News shows Carson explaining his theory 17 years ago at a Michigan ...
... Such reports cannot be considered true," he told the Interfax news agency, according to the BBC. "We are in close touch with our colleagues from Egypt and their air traffic authorities, and they have nothing at the moment which could confirm such fabrications," Sokolov said. Egyptian army spokesman Mohamed Samir ...
... mountainous central area of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. No one on board survived, officials say. Except for three Ukrainian passengers, everyone on board was Russian, Egyptian government officials said. Egyptian search and rescue teams found the plane's wreckage -- including both of the so-called black boxes, the flight data ...
Before his release in September, Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy spent more than 400 days locked up in the terrorism wing of “Scorpion” prison in Egypt. He had no way to tell time, and was sleeping on the floor of a freezing cell. Chief foreign correspondent Margaret Warner traveled to Toronto to speak with Fahmy...
... just want to say to you, though, that the last two years presented a real test of the endurance and strength of the U.S.-Egyptian strategic relationship. MARGARET WARNER: Let me go back, finally, to the state internally in Egypt. Can you explain to the American people why so ...
... of military aid from the U.S. to Egypt, right? This aid had been put on hold for a while during all the turmoil in Egypt. Is it back up to where it was? MICHELE DUNNE: Yes. The United States resumed all military aid to Egypt earlier this year, after ...
... cities were called Thonis, Heracleion and Canopus. Many of the artifacts are thought to be in tribute to the ancient Egyptian God: Osiris. MOHAMMED ABDELMAGUID, EGYPTIAN DEPT. FOR UNDERWATER ANTIQUITIES: The artifacts have aesthetic value, but at the same time, this shows us there is a continuity in Egyptian beliefs ...
... debate on how European countries should act. This isn’t the billionaire’s first time entering a larger political debate. In the wake of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, he was one of the founding members of the Free Egyptians’ Party, according to International Business Times. https://www.youtube.com ...
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