Aug 03 Column: Nobel prize-winner Ahmed Zewail’s struggle to bring Egypt out of the ‘dark ages’ By Margaret Warner The Arab world needs more heroes like Ahmed Zewail, the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian chemist who died yesterday. Continue reading
Jul 13 Egyptian dissenters forcibly disappeared and tortured, Amnesty says By Kassia Halcli 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. Continue reading
Jun 23 Investigators can’t download EgyptAir recorders, says U.S. official By Joan Lowy, Associated Press 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. Continue reading
Jun 18 Egypt finalizes death ruling for Al Jazeera journalists tried in abstentia By Kamala Kelkar An Egyptian court finalized a ruling on Saturday in an espionage case that sentenced six people to death, including three journalists tried in absentia. The country's former president, Mohammed Morsi, was also given life in prison in the same case. Continue reading
Jun 15 Egypt says it has found the wreckage from missing EgyptAir plane By Joshua Barajas A search vessel has spotted “several main locations of the wreckage” from an EgyptAir airplane that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last month. Continue reading
May 21 Egypt sends submarine to search for clues about EgyptAir crash that killed 66 By Kamala Kelkar Before an EgyptAir jet crashed into the Mediterranean with 66 people on board Thursday, it had sent out a burst of error messages indicating there was smoke aboard, a French air investigation agency spokesman said Saturday. Continue reading
May 03 World Press Freedom Day, a reminder that the press isn’t free in most countries By Dominique Bonessi More than 85 percent of countries in the world live with either partial or no press freedom. Continue reading
Apr 21 Watch 6:41 Why the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia is under strain By PBS News Hour President Obama held a summit with Saudi Arabia and some of its Gulf allies to outline deeper cooperation on regional and security challenges, but those meetings come amid new strains on the partnership. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner reports… Continue watching
Apr 02 Watch 1:52 Could the remains of Queen Nefertiti be hidden behind King Tut’s tomb? By Ivette Feliciano Archaeologists in Egypt have completed the first phase of a new search for King Tut's tomb. The question at hand: Could the tomb contain the undiscovered burial place of Queen Nefertiti? NewsHour's Ivette Feliciano reports. Continue watching
Mar 29 Egyptian hijacker in custody after hours-long standoff By Larisa Epatko An Egyptian man who hijacked a passenger airplane and forced it to land in Cyprus gave himself up to authorities Tuesday after holding seven people on board for several hours. Continue reading