| February 1, 2008 | -
Egypt and India were afflicted with limited Internet service.
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Internet Limping Back to Normalcy
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| January 29, 2008 | - Remnants of a 7,000-year-old city were found in Egypt's Fayyum oasis.
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Ruins of 7,000-year-old city found in Egypt oasis
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| June 28, 2007 | -
Egypt outlawed female circumcision.
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BBCnews.com
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| May 26, 2007 | -
Cairo customs officials prevented a smuggler from carrying 700 snakes onto a plane bound for Saudi Arabia.
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USA Today
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| May 22, 2007 | - An Egyptian jurist at Al-Azhar University was disciplined for issuing a fatwa that permitted women to breastfeed adult men.
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BBC
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| May 3, 2007 | - Officials from more than 50 countries gathered in Egypt and issued a five-year “International Compact” aimed at stabilizing Iraq.
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The Daily Star Egypt
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| April 3, 2007 | - Dr. Zahi Hawass of Egypt dismissed the Exodus story of the Jews as a “myth.”
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New York Times
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| March 26, 2007 | - At the Gaza‒Egypt border a woman with three baby crocodiles strapped to her waist was detained after guards noticed that she looked “strangely fat.”
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AP via New York Times
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| November 24, 2006 | - A conference of Muslim scholars in Cairo denounced female circumcision.
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BBC
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| July 30, 2006 | - In Cairo, Muslims took to the street carrying posters of Hassan Nasrallah, chanting "O Sunni! O Shiite! Let's fight the Jews.”
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NY Times
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| April 25, 2006 | - In Dahab, Egypt, three bombings killed 30 people.
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The New York Times
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| April 9, 2006 | - The U.S. military announced that 1,313 Iraqi civilians had been killed in the sectarian violence of March. "Civil war," said Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, "has almost started among Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds, and those who are coming from Asia."
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BBC News
Source 2:
Chron.com
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| March 8, 2006 | - The U.S. State Department issued a report criticizing human rights abuses in China, North Korea, Iran, and Cuba. It also criticized the rights records of Jordan and Egypt, two countries where the United States has sent detainees to be interrogated. The report noted that the United States' "own journey towards liberty and justice for all has been long and difficult," and is "far from complete."
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The New York Times
Source 2:
The Independent
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| February 18, 2006 | - Another person died from bird
flu in Iraq. The flu was also found in poultry in Germany, France, and Egypt, and 50,000 chickens died from the disease in India.
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Bloomberg News
Source 2:
People's Daily Online
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BBC News
Source 4:
China View
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| February 4, 2006 | - The IAEA voted to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council because of Iran's nuclear program; Venezuela, Cuba, and Syria voted against the measure. Prior to the vote, Egypt proposed to make the Middle East a nuclear-free zone, but that proposal was rejected by the United States because it would interfere with Israel's weapons program.
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BBC News
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| February 3, 2006 | - About 1,300 people drowned when an Egyptian
ferry, the al-Salam Boccaccio '98, sank in the Red Sea.
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BBC News
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| December 30, 2005 | - Twenty Sudanese migrants, protesting their treatment in Egypt, were killed by Egyptian police.
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BBC News
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| May 27, 2005 | - Brigadier General Jay Hood, Guantánamo Bay's commander, said that an investigation at Guantánamo Bay had uncovered five incidents of Koran abuse, but none involved toilets; protesters rallied against Koran abuse in Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, Malaysia, and in Lebanon, where they chanted “America is the biggest Satan.”
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BBC News
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| April 29, 2005 | -
Egypt was planning to cut down on noise pollution in Cairo by stopping individual calls to prayer from the city's four thousand mosques; instead, the call to prayer will be centralized.
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BBC News
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| March 12, 2005 | - A television exploded in Egypt, killing four children.
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National Post
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| February 19, 2005 | - In Egypt, a team of thirteen doctors removed a second, “parasitic” head from a baby girl.
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Reuters
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| February 2, 2005 | -
Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to attend a peace summit in Egypt.
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CBC News
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| December 12, 2004 | -
Israel promised to release dozens of Palestinian prisoners as a favor to Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak before the Palestinian election.
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AP
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| December 3, 2004 | - Hours before a registration deadline, Marwan Barghouti gave word from his prison cell in Israel, where he is serving five life sentences, that he would run for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority. Barghouti's popularity among Palestinian youths has caused fears that he could siphon votes from PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas and cause a split in the Fatah Party; Palestinian leaders urged Barghouti to withdraw his candidacy, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak endorsed Abbas, and Ariel Sharon said Barghouti would be able to campaign only from behind bars.
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