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FILE - In this June 28, 2013 file photo, construction work takes place, at the site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam near Assosa, Ethiopia. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, a top Sudanese general on Sunday, March 15, 2020, said his country would mediate a deal on an escalating dispute between Ethiopia and Egypt over Ethiopia's controversial dam on the Nile River. Tensions are rising because of the impasse between Ethiopia and Egypt over the $4.6 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. The project is around 71% complete and promises to provide much-needed electricity to Ethiopia’s 100 million people. (AP Photo/Elias Asmare, File)

Nile countries resume talks over disputed dam after deadlock

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This May 16, 2020, photo provided by Mohamed Soltan shows himself at his home in Fairfax, Va. After his arrest in 2013 for documenting the deadliest crackdown on protesters in Egypt’s modern history, Mohammed Soltan landed in a notorious prison where he says he was brutally tortured for 21 months. (Bushra Soltan via AP)

Egypt’s ex-PM faces torture allegation in American’s lawsuit

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Egypt officials say 19 militants, 5 troops killed in Sinai

By BY ASHRAF SWEILAM - Associated Press

Sudan pushes Ethiopia to resume stalled talks over Nile dam

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FILE - In this June 19, 2019 file photo, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi speaks during a press conference in Bucharest, Romania. Amnesty International says that journalism in Egypt has effectively become a crime over the past four years, as authorities clamp down on media outlets and muzzle dissent. The London-based rights group said in a report Sunday, May 3, 2020 that as the number of coronavirus infections in Egypt continues to rise, the government is strengthening information controls, instead of upholding transparency during the health crisis. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

IMF approves $2.77 billion to help Egypt with virus fallout

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FILE - In this June 19, 2019 file photo, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi speaks during a press conference in Bucharest, Romania. Amnesty International says that journalism in Egypt has effectively become a crime over the past four years, as authorities clamp down on media outlets and muzzle dissent. The London-based rights group said in a report Sunday, May 3, 2020 that as the number of coronavirus infections in Egypt continues to rise, the government is strengthening information controls, instead of upholding transparency during the health crisis. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Egypt’s president expands powers, citing virus outbreak

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

In this Sept. 24, 2019, file photo, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

U.S. should cut security aid to Egypt by $300 million, new report suggests

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this photo taken Tuesday, March 31, 2020, a swarm of desert locusts flies in Kipsing, near Oldonyiro, in Isiolo county, Kenya. Weeks before the coronavirus spread through much of the world, parts of Africa were already threatened by another kind of plague, the biggest locust outbreak some countries had seen in 70 years, and now the second wave of the voracious insects, some 20 times the size of the first, is arriving. (Sven Torfinn/FAO via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

Is COVID-19 bringing the Bible’s 10 great plagues?

By Joseph Curl

American schoolteacher imprisoned in Egypt is released

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Lawyers: Egypt filmmaker who mocked president dies in prison

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FILE - In this June 19, 2019 file photo, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi speaks during a press conference in Bucharest, Romania. Amnesty International says that journalism in Egypt has effectively become a crime over the past four years, as authorities clamp down on media outlets and muzzle dissent. The London-based rights group said in a report Sunday, May 3, 2020 that as the number of coronavirus infections in Egypt continues to rise, the government is strengthening information controls, instead of upholding transparency during the health crisis. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Amnesty reports chilling details of Egypt press crackdown

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In this Sept. 25, 2000, file photo, two workers climb down from one of the tanks in an oil tank-farm in Jebel Ali, 25 miles (40 km) south of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The historic crash in oil prices in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic is reverberating across the Middle East as crude-dependent countries scramble to offset losses from a key source of state revenue. The economies of all the Arab Gulf oil exporters are expected to contract this year. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Mideast economies take massive hit with oil price crash

By Samya Kullab and Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

In this Sunday, April 19, 2020, file photo, people attend evening prayers while maintaining a level of social distancing to help avoid the spread of the coronavirus, at a mosque in Karachi, Pakistan. As Ramadan begins with the new moon later this week, Muslims all around the world are trying to work out how to maintain the many cherished rituals of Islam’s holiest month. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan, File)

Muslims try to keep Ramadan spirit amid virus restrictions

By Samy Magdy and Lee Keathy - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 18, 2020, file photo, an American tourist looks at the great Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha at the Citadel complex, in Cairo, Egypt. Muslims will be grappling during the upcoming Islamic holy month of Ramadan with how to observe familiar rituals in a time of unfamiliarity after the coronavirus has disrupted Islamic worship. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Muslims grapple with Ramadan rituals in coronavirus era

By MARIAM FAM - Associated Press

This March 25, 2020 photo, shows the empty Sphinx complex of the Giza Pyramids in Egypt. &quot;Everything collapsed in a flash,&quot; said Sayed el-Gabri, a souvenir vendor, as he stared at the almost empty complex of Egypt's famed Giza Pyramids. It was not unexpected, but the evaporation of the stream of visitors to the ancient site was still a shock to el-Gabri and other tourism workers. He saw it coming, as the government stepped up its measures to slow the new coronavirus' spread, culminating in a ban on all international flights in and out of the country. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

AP PHOTOS: Virus threatening Egypt’s fragile economy

By SAMY MAGDY and NARIMAN EL-MOFTY - Associated Press

Egypt: Police kill 7 suspected militants in Cairo suburb

By BY SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Palestinian workers load food supplies distributed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) at the Sheikh Redwan neighborhood of Gaza City, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. The United Nations has resumed food deliveries to thousands of impoverished families in the Gaza Strip after a three-week delay caused by fears of the coronavirus. UNRWA, provides staples like flour, rice, oil and canned foods to roughly half of Gaza’s 2 million people. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Egypt opens Gaza border for returnees stranded by outbreak

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In this Friday, April 3, 2020 photo, a man crosses an empty street under portraits of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, right, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, in Tehran, Iran. Due to the virus and the COVID-19 illness it causes, life has changed dramatically on Tehran's main highways, in the narrow corridors of its historical Grand Bazaar and in the public spaces under portraits of its leaders. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran begins lifting restrictions after brief virus lockdown

By AMIR VAHDAT - Associated Press

A woman is reflected on a bus station as she wears a protective face mask amid concerns over the country's coronavirus outbreak, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, April 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israeli leader announces lockdown over Passover holiday

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2015 file photo, a Muslim Brotherhood member waves his hand from a defendants cage in a courtroom in Torah prison, southern Cairo, Egypt. In some cells in Iran, Egypt, Syria and other countries in the Middle East, prisoners are crammed in by the dozens, with little access to hygiene or medical care. So if one infection gets in, the novel coronavirus could run rampant. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Crammed in filthy cells, political prisoners fear infection

By MAGGIE MICHAEL and SARAH EL DEEB and LEE KEATH - Associated Press