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A team of Czech archaeologists announced Sunday the discovery of an ancient Egyptian tomb that they believe belongs to a previously unknown ancient Egyptian queen, according to the BBC. While excavating the funeral complex of Pharaoh Neferefre in the Abusir region southwest of Cairo, the team unearthed the tomb of ...
... or the retrial hangs on the fate of the relationship between Egypt and Qatar, who owns Al-Jazeera. BORZOU DARAGAHI: Well, if you talk to Egyptian officials, they're very strident about the integrity of the Egyptian judicial system and the independence of that judiciary. Many people are very skeptical ...
... Fadel Fahmy, a Canadian-Egyptian, Australian correspondent Peter Greste, and Egyptian Baher Mohamed were handed seven-to-10-year sentences on charges of publishing false Egyptian news and aiding the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group. But outside Egypt, the trial was widely viewed as a sham and the verdicts sparked an ...
They say they were just doing their jobs. After appealing the charge of spreading false news and conspiring with Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood, three Al Jazeera journalists who have been jailed for more than a year are getting a retrial. Egypt's high court announced the order of a ...
Monday marked one year since the arrests of three Al Jazeera journalists in Cairo. Baher Mohammed, Mohammed Fahmy and Peter Greste were arrested on Dec. 29, 2013 while reporting on civil strife in Egypt. The three were charged with supporting the banned Muslim Brotherhood and, in June, were sentenced to ...
An Egyptian appeals court on Saturday upheld the convictions but reduced the sentences of eight men who appeared in a same-sex wedding video. Last month, the men were convicted of "inciting debauchery" and sentenced to three-year prison terms after a video surfaced online of them at what appeared ...
... associate professor of Middle Eastern politics at the University of Oklahoma. He joins us now from Norman, Oklahoma. Professor, how important is this ruling for Egypt? SAMER SHEHATA, UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: It has very little political significance for Egypt's future political development. It's unlikely that this is going ...
A year ago, Egyptian security forces bulldozed the main protest camp in Cairo, after the demonstrators had been rallying for weeks against the removal of President Mohammed Morsi. The Egyptian government this week disputed a Human Rights Watch report that likened the security forces' actions to crimes against humanity. Prior ...
... there be a serious engagement, discussion, negotiation, regarding the underlying issues and addressing all the concerns that have brought us to where we are today." Egypt has proposed a cease-fire plan that is backed by the U.S. and Israel but been rejected by Hamas. Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh ...
... made finding a solution much more difficult. NATAN SACHS: Much harder. In the past, you had Egypt to negotiate between the sides. And today the Egyptians and the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine, have very bad relations. And even -- even Egypt today came out with a ...
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