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.
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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…
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.
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.
Last week Egypt marked the five-year anniversary of the revolution that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak. But the road forward has been slow and tumultuous. Jeffrey Brown talks to Bassem Youssef, the political satirist some call the "Jon Stewart of Egypt,”…
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, an Egyptian diplomat who served as the sixth U.N. secretary-general, died on Tuesday. He was 93.
Flags flew at half staff Friday in the Italian town of Fiumicello, where hundreds of mourners gathered for the funeral of an Italian student whose body was found on the outskirts of Cairo early this month.
In Tahrir Square, the center of the Egyptian revolution five years ago, women safely joined men to protest for a new future. But that moment soon ended; hundreds, even thousands of female protesters were sexually assaulted. In some cases, activists…
Egypt’s judiciary, once renowned as fiercely independent, now faces criticism for the harsh and lengthy imprisonment of political prisoners under the leadership of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Special correspondent Nick Schifrin talks with one family who have tirelessly fought for…
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