EGYPT NEWS UPDATES ON TERRORIST ATTACKS, TRAVEL AND CAIRO

Pinned to the ground by brave hotel staff and wheeled away in luggage cart cage, the holiday terror knifeman who killed two women after 'targeting only female tourists' in Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada 

15/07/17 00:17

13/07/17 14:40

A couple have captured footage of a 'hooded shadowy figure' that they believe is the ghost of an Ancient Egyptian priest haunting the Leeds museum where his mummy is kept.

12/07/17 12:08

An Islamic preacher from Egypt Sheikh Ibrahim Zidan (pictured) told a conference in Melbourne Muslims have a compulsory duty to spread Islam in any nation where they are the minority.

07/07/17 17:16

Pictures shows an angry mob surrounding the unnamed woman in the city of Bilbeis, 50 miles north east of Egypt's capital Cairo.

06/07/17 22:04

Swarms of jellyfish have descended on Egypt's northern coast, keeping vacationers out of the water and stirring debate over a recent expansion of the Suez Canal.

06/07/17 12:28

Mervat Mohamed Talaat was performing caesarean surgery on a patient at Luxor General Hospital in Cairo in Egypt when she reported pain and started bleeding.

04/07/17 18:35

Researchers from the University of Warsaw have studied over 1,000 inscriptions from people from Syria and Athens who made their way to the Valley of the Kings over the millennia.

03/07/17 19:55

Danielle Beavis-Smith, 22, says she was attacked by a man from the Czech Republic while on holiday in Egypt after the man's girlfriend gave her a drink, which sent him flying into a rage.

27/06/17 10:41

A PhD educated Egyptian engineer from Mount Druitt and his wife rorted Centrelink and the Federal government out of more than $60,000 for nearly a decade by using his middle name as an alias.

26/06/17 11:35

Vital Bazarov was on a solo dive in the Gulf of Aqaba, off the coast of Egypt when he captured footage of the incredibly rare camouflage fish hiding on the seabed.

21/06/17 17:27

Experts from the University of Basel in Switzerland say an ancient Egpytian artificial toe testifies to the skills of an artisan who was very familiar with human physiognomy.

20/06/17 11:06

Researchers from the University of Turin have now used a range of facial reconstruction techniques, to produce an impressive facial approximation of Nebiri.

20/06/17 09:19

A genetic study by researchers from the Jacques Monod Institute in Paris has revealed a lineage of cats from Egypt began spreading around the world around 3,000 years ago (stock image).

14/06/17 11:47

The draft law, introduced by MP Bedier Abdel Aziz, could lead to parents receiving a £220 fine or 6 months in jail if enacted. He said without Arabic names, 'our sons' could lose their 'true identity'.

13/06/17 10:00

Mostafa Mahamed (pictured), a senior al-Qaeda operative who grew up in Sydney, says he joined the terrorist group's Syrian branch after Australia cancelled his passport.

10/06/17 09:59

Adrian Nicholas King, from Stafford, flew to Cairo with a friend on May 9 but less than two weeks later, while on a safari excursion his kidneys are believed to have failed and he fell into a coma.

08/06/17 09:57

French investigators will examine whether an iPhone 6S or iPad 4 Mini plugged into an incorrect socket in the cockpit of EgyptAir Flight MS804 could have started a fire and caused it to crash.

06/06/17 17:38

The hefty ransom reportedly secured the release of 26 members of a falconry party (pictured), including members of Qatar's royal family, who were kidnapped by jihadis in Iraq in December 2015.

05/06/17 23:55

The United Arab Emirates and Egypt announced they will be joining Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and withdrawing their diplomatic staff from Qatar, a gas-rich nation that will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

03/06/17 13:32

A 13-storey building in Alexandria, Egypt has tilted across a street, forcing police to evacuate it and nearby structures. The military has now been called to demolish the apartment block.

02/06/17 23:21

The little girl suffered horrific injuries in the attack after he snatched her from the balcony of her family home in the Nile Delta village of Belqas.

27/05/17 17:45

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 29 Coptic Christians in southern Egypt. The Egyptian Air Force launched air strikes in retaliation.

27/05/17 12:29

Donald Trump declared in a scathing statement Friday night that terrorists 'are engaged in a war against civilization,' after masked gunmen slaughtered Egyptian Copts south of Cairo.

27/05/17 01:02

Egyptian bombers attacked 'jihadi training camps' in Libya after up to 10 masked gunmen stopped a convoy of Coptic Christians in Minya province, 140 miles south of Cairo.

24/05/17 03:02

The first of the many wondrous artefacts found in Egyptian boy king Tutankhamun's tomb were transported carefully through Cairo's streets on Tuesday to their new home near the Giza Pyramids.

21/05/17 15:26

The Egyptian president said Trump is 'a unique personality that is capable of doing the impossible' – and Trump replied: 'I agree!'

14/05/17 00:51

The discovery was made in the village of Tuna el-Gabal, a vast archaeological site on the edge of the western desert. Officials hope it will revive tourism in the area.

11/05/17 01:59

The British travel company has scrapped all flight and hotel packages for the winter season onwards, with alternative trips or refunds offered.

10/05/17 22:09

Isse Aweis Mohamud is being held by federal authorities over passport fraud after he returned from Egypt where he was arrested and is now suspected of 'jihadist activities'.

09/05/17 12:45

Australian of the Year finalist Eman Sharobeem has told a Sydney corruption inquiry PhD degrees listed on her resume was destroyed by fire during the Arab Spring.

07/05/17 02:15

A garden of a large ancient villa in Pompeii that was home to stunning paintings depicting the River Nile could hold secrets to the early Roman Empire.

05/05/17 12:39

Two ISIS suicide bombers killed at least 45 people at churches in the Egyptian cities of Alexandria and Tanta in April.

04/05/17 21:08

Archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old funerary garden in Luxor, Egypt that may once have been planted with symbols of fertility and the resurrection of the dead.

02/05/17 15:01

Professional diver Vitaly Bazarov was filming a hiding octopus in the Red Sea off Dahab, Egypt, when it lunged out a tentacle and wrestled his camera to the ground.

29/04/17 19:07

Pope Francis led a jubilant mass for thousands of Egyptian Catholics on Saturday in Cairo during a visit to support the country's embattled Christian minority.

27/04/17 17:43

The leader of the Catholic church made the plea before he heads to Egypt - the scene of two suicide bombings on Palm Sunday that killed 45 people - tomorrow in a bid to spread peace.

27/04/17 17:27

Amid heightened security, hundreds of mourners gathered at Alexandria's Monastery of Saint Mina to remember the 17 people killed at the city's Coptic cathedral

27/04/17 14:04

Astonishing footage has emerged from Egypt showing a teenager (pictured) lying under a train as it roars past overhead. But there have been calls for the teen to be prosecuted.

25/04/17 15:58

Shaimaa Selim, whose sister Eman Abd El Aty was taken to India from her native Egypt for the operation, also claimed doctors lied about how much weight she had lost.

25/04/17 12:13

Egyptian Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, 36, weighs around 1,100lb ( 500kg) and had not left her house in more than two decades until arriving in Mumbai at the weekend for bariatric surgery.

24/04/17 16:01

Four-year-old Isaac Webster from Warrington died after a 'tragic accident' while on holiday in Egypt with parents Kelly and Andy Webster. A JustGiving page has already raised £5,000.

21/04/17 20:27

President Trump and Ivanka sat down with Aya Hijazi, an American charity worker they helped free after she was wrongfully locked away in an Egyptian prison for three years, on Friday.

21/04/17 18:39

President Donald Trump and his aides won the release of an Egyptian American aid worker who returned to the US late Thursday after being imprisoned in Cairo for three years.

21/04/17 09:34

Egyptian national Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty weighed 78 stone (1,092 pounds) when she arrived in Mumbai in February on a specially modified plane to undergo emergency weight-loss surgery.

19/04/17 19:08

The animal, known as Masrasector nananubis, was once near the top of the African food chain and lived in the same swampy ecosystem, near what is now Cairo, that was home to early human relatives.

19/04/17 18:51

The statue was presented in a floodlit ceremony at the Luxor Temple on the banks of the Nile on Tuesday evening. When it was discovered between 1958 and 1960, the statue was in 57 pieces.

18/04/17 17:00

The Antiquities Ministry said today that the tomb, which lies on the west bank of the River Nile in Luxor was built for a judge during the New Kingdom period, from roughly 1,500 to 1,000 BC.

17/04/17 01:18

An Egyptian court on Sunday acquitted Aya Hijazi, a dual US-Egyptian citizen who has been held in detention for three years over accusations related to an NGO she founded.

16/04/17 14:56

Lisa Walker, of Yarm, Cleveland, flew to the four-star Iberotel Coraya Beach Resort in Marsa Alam, Egypt, on October 26 last year, but was shocked to see the resort's 'dirty' conditions.

13/04/17 08:35

Egyptian security services shot dead seven ISIS militants on Monday after coming under fire while carrying out a raid on a compound where the men were plotting attacks on Christians.

12/04/17 17:50

Eman Ahmed, 36, from Alexandria, Egypt weighed a staggering 78 stone before she was airlifted to India for a life-saving Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy operation.

11/04/17 11:11

The pyramid from the 13th dynasty was found in Dahshur's royal necropolis, 30 kilometres (20 miles) south of Cairo. Excavations are still in their early stages, and the size of the pyramid remains unknown.

09/04/17 23:59

CCTV shows the fanatic, dressed in a blue pullover, approaching the gate at St Mark's in Alexandria and being told to go through the metal detector by the officers.

09/04/17 23:05

President Trump offered his condolences, tweeting: ' So sad to hear of the terrorist attack in Egypt. U.S. strongly condemns. I have great....confidence that President Al Sisi will handle situation properly.'

05/04/17 17:04

Robert Lapham had ‘visions of being handed to ISIS’ by Egyptian security forces after they mistook a headphone amplifier stuffed inside the mint tin for a bomb.

03/04/17 22:27

El-Sisi praised Trump for his 'unique personality' and pledged his help in fighting the ISIS terror army. Barack Obama actively shunned him after he overthrew a Muslim Brotherhood president.

30/03/17 09:08

Israel's counter-terrorism bureau has warned of a 'serious and current threat' of an 'imminent' ISIS attack targeting the Red Sea region of Egypt, and particularly aimed at killing Israeli tourists.

29/03/17 19:39

Eman, from Alexandria, Egypt, underwent successful gastric sleeve surgery earlier this month, which reduced her stomach to less than 15 per cent of its original size.

27/03/17 18:21

A 2,000-year-old mummy shroud will go in display at 'The Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Burial' exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh after being left in storage since the 1940s.

25/03/17 14:12

Passengers were told to stash their electronics on direct flights to the UK from Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon, Jordan and Saudi Arabia on Saturday.

24/03/17 21:15

An excavation mission at the funerary temple of Amenhotep III in Luxor, Egypt has unearthed a ‘beautifully carved’ statue of a woman that could be King Tutankhamun’s grandmother.

24/03/17 16:38

Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak was freed today from a military hospital after spending six years in detention for his role in the deaths of protesters during the Arab Spring revolt in 2011.

24/03/17 15:00

The rock carvings depicting men dancing around an ostrich were found at the ancient graveyard known as Qubbet el-Hawa near Aswan along the Egyptian Nile.

21/03/17 20:02

Proving she still knows a thing or two when it comes to working a dance floor, the TV presenter, 37, put her Strictly moves to good use while performing a balletic jump for a - very wet - secret shoot.

17/03/17 00:26

The Love Island presenter, 37, wore just a polka dot swimsuit as she pointed at camels in the amusingly captioned snap she shared with her one million followers while on holiday in Egypt.

16/03/17 20:05

Researchers from Egypt and Germany found the bust and lower part of the head. The ancient artefacts were unveiled at the Egyptian museum this evening and were found in the area of Matariya.

14/03/17 20:39

Thomson and other travel firms have started offering holiday packages to Egyptian resort Sharm el Sheikh from this autumn despite Foreign Office warnings over terrorism in the area.

13/03/17 15:57

Experts descended on the Souq al-Khamis district of the Egyptian capital Cairo and used a crane to raise the statue, which is believed to depict revered Pharaoh Ramses II.

11/03/17 02:02

Archaeologists from Egypt and Germany found the statue of Pharaoh Ramses II in the Mattarya district in Cairo which used to be the site of the ancient capital of Heliopolis.

09/03/17 10:56

Eman Ahmed was flown from Egypt to Saifee Hospital in Mumbai, India, for an operation which has been deemed a success after she lost 220lbs in less than a month often shedding a stone a day.

08/03/17 19:13

Researchers with a German archaeological mission in Egypt discovered 66 well-preserved statues of Sekhmet near Luxor, the site of the ancient city Thebes.

06/03/17 16:38

Frustrated citizens and seasoned travellers alike have taken to a US-based online forum to share the strange - and sometimes humorous - stereotypes some believe about foreign countries.

02/03/17 22:49

The 88-year-old former dictator could earlier be seen being stretchered into a helicopter ahead of a court appearance in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

23/02/17 02:43

The two Coptic Christians were found murdered Wednesday in Egypt's North Sinai, a stronghold of the terror group. Their bodies were discovered at dawn behind a school in the city of El-Arish.

19/02/17 08:35

Eman Ahmed (pictured today), 78 stone, was flown from her home in Egypt to India on a specially modified cargo plane to undergo a series of operations to help her lose weight.

15/02/17 12:32

A series of astonishing photographs from the 1890s to the 1930s capture Victorians in formal wear exploring Egypt's iconic landmarks including the pyramids, tombs and Sphinx.

13/02/17 10:05

The search will be led by the Polytechnic University Turin, Italy. They will be the third team in the past two years researchers have looked for the lost chamber.

11/02/17 19:01

Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, 36, who weighs 78 stone, had not left her home in Alexandria for 25 years as she was unable to move from her bed because of her enormous size.

10/02/17 15:17

Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, 36, is to fly from Egypt to Mumbai in India for the treatment, which will reduce the size of her stomach and potentially save her life, having not left her home for 25 years.

10/02/17 12:02

Researchers based at the Roemer-Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim in Germany made the findings in an ancient mortar pit at an archaeological site near the Nile Delta.

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