Travellers interested in ancient Egypt or Nile cruises can now fly directly to Luxor following news that Egyptair has launched direct weekly flights between Heathrow and Luxor with return prices starting at £380. The five hour and twenty minute flight leaves London Heathrow at 17:00 and arrives in Luxor at 23.20. …
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An Egyptian militant group said on Friday that it tried to assassinate the deputy prosecutor general with a car bomb, a day after the blast in a Cairo suburb. Police had said the Thursday night bombing had occurred as the official’s convoy drove past the rigged car wounded a passerby. …
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by Charlie Charalambous A Cypriot court ruled on Friday that an Egyptian man accused of hijacking a plane and diverting it to Cyprus can be extradited to Cairo for his alleged crimes. Nicosia District Court judge Dona Constantinou was satisfied that Seif al-Din Mohamed Mostafa, 58, would get a …
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by Mariëtte Le Roux When Europe’s comet chaser was launched in 2004, it boasted the name of the famous Rosetta stone, which had helped decipher hieroglyphics, the mysterious written language of the ancient Egyptians. The moniker was chosen because Rosetta, the spacecraft, would also be a decoder — unravelling the …
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Gunmen killed three Egyptian policeman and a civilian on Wednesday in the Sinai Peninsula, where the military is battling a jihadist insurgency, the interior ministry said. The gunmen in a car intercepted a taxi carrying the policemen in the north Sinai capital El-Arish and killed them along with the driver, …
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The diplomatic “Quartet” piloting efforts to nudge Israel and the Palestinians towards a negotiated solution to their conflict on Friday heard from France and Egypt on their parallel peace-making efforts. The Quartet — the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations — is tasked with overseeing international peace …
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Egyptian rescue workers have recovered 168 bodies from a migrant shipwreck off Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, the health ministry said Sunday. Survivors have said up to 450 migrants were on board the overcrowded fishing vessel headed to Italy from Egypt when it keeled over Wednesday off the port city of Rosetta. Egypt’s …
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