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Ethiopia: Egypt’s Nile dam proposal is against ‘sovereignty’

By ELIAS MESERET - Associated Press

Sudan’s new PM meets with Egyptian president in Cairo

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Egypt says police kill 9 suspected militants in Cairo

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 28, 2013 file photo, construction work takes place, at the site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam near Assosa, Ethiopia. Egypt says negotiations over an upstream Nile dam being built by Ethiopia have not led to any &quot;breakthrough.&quot; Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry told reporters that talks over the $5 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam have stopped for more than a year before restarting in Cairo on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Elias Asmare, File)

Egypt says no ‘breakthrough’ with Ethiopia over Nile dam

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FILE - In this March 9, 2012 file photo, activists spray paint graffiti that reads in Arabic, &quot;Egypt has women,&quot; during a campaign supporting Egyptian women's rights in Cairo, Egypt. The prosecution of a 15-year-old girl who killed a bus driver after he allegedly tried to rape her in July 2019, has reignited debate over the treatment of women in Egypt’s legal system, including blaming female victims of sexual violence and the practice of administering virginity tests.(AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)

Teen Egyptian girl’s case puts legal system under spotlight

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

Egypt officials: Attack kills 3 forces, 3 militants in Sinai

By BY ASHRAF SWEILLAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 19, 2019 file photo, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi speaks during a press conference in Bucharest, Romania. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi says Saturday, Sept. 14, that allegations of embezzlement and misuse of public funds in building new presidential palaces are &quot;sheer lies and defamation.&quot; He says: &quot;I've built presidential palaces and I will continue to do so. I am building a new country. ... All of this is not mine. It's Egypt's.&quot; (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Egypt’s el-Sissi dismisses corruption allegations

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Cyprus' defense minister Savvas Angelides, right, talks with his Egyptian counterpart Lt. Gen. Mohamed Ahmed Zak, left, after a meeting with Cypriot president Nicos Anastasiades at presidential palace in Nicosia, Cyprus, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019. Cyprus' defense minister says the east Mediterranean island nation and neighbor Egypt are exchanging information to bolster security around an offshore search for natural gas as part of enhanced defense ties. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Official: Energy security key in bolstered Cyprus-Egypt ties

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Egypt wants Sudan off US terror list

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019, photo, relatives of Palestinian activist Tamer Sultan, 38, mourn next to a picture of him on a wall in his family home during his funeral in the town of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip. The death abroad of a Palestinian who fled the Gaza Strip seeking a better life in Europe has highlighted the exodus of thousands of middle-class residents in recent years. Tamer al-Sultan's friends and family say he fled the oppressive rule of Hamas. Others are leaving because of the dire conditions in the territory, which has been under an Israeli and Egyptian blockade since the Islamic militant group seized power 12 years ago. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Gazan’s death abroad shines light on middle-class exodus

By FARES AKRAM and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2018 photo, Abdullah Morsi, the youngest son of Egypt's jailed former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, sits in front of a framed image of his father that was printed on a flag during the 2013 Rabaah al-Adawiya sit-in, at his home in Cairo, Egypt. Physicians said 25-year-old Abdullah Morsi died of a heart attack shortly after arriving in hospital Wednesday, Sept 4, 2019. His father collapsed and died in a Cairo court in June. (AP Photo/Brian Rohan, File)

Former Egyptian president Morsi’s youngest son dies at 25

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

In this Aug. 8, 2019, photo, workers prepare to place cement blocks to reinforce the sea wall against rising water levels on the corniche in Alexandria, Egypt. Alexandria, which has survived invasions, fires and earthquakes since it was founded by Alexander the Great more than 2,000 years ago, now faces a new menace from climate change. Rising sea levels threaten to inundate poorer neighborhoods and archaeological sites, prompting authorities to erect concrete barriers out at sea to hold back the surging waves. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Rising seas threaten Egypt’s fabled port city of Alexandria

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Egypt says militant arrested, search underway for 80 others

By ASHRAF SWEILLAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 18, 2019 file photo, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi meets with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk, Belarus. Several Egyptian rights groups are calling on a U.N. agency to rule out Egypt as the host of its conference on torture because of the country's dismal human rights record. The development came as Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi ratified on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019, a controversial bill regulating the work of non-governmental groups in the country, a law that activists and civil society groups have widely criticized as oppressive. (Vasily Fedosenko/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Some Egyptian rights activists dismiss country’s new NGO law

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

Egypt says its forces kill 11 militants in Sinai Peninsula

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Libyan Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Maiteeq is warning the U.S. against embracing rebel leader Khalifa Haftar, a former Libyan army colonel with alleged CIA ties. "I think President Trump may have gotten the wrong message from allies or advisers about Haftar," he said. "It is our government in Tripoli, not Haftar, that is the main ally of the U.S. as a force to fight terrorism in Libya and North Africa." (Associated Press)

Ahmed Omar Maiteeq of Libya warns Donald Trump of Khalifa Haftar

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

People survey the aftermath of a fiery car crash outside the National Cancer Institute in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Aug. 5, 2019. The multiple-car crash set off an explosion that ignited a fire at Egypt's main cancer hospital, the government said.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Egypt says security forces killed 17 Islamic militants

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FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2017 file photo, a vendor counts his money at a bread stand in the Sayeda Zeinab neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt. A Monday, July 29, 2019 report said one in every three Egyptian citizens was living in poverty in 2018. The country's statistics agency said 32.5% of Egyptians lived below the poverty line that year, up from 27.8% in 2015 and 16.7% in 2000. Monday's report was the first on poverty and income since the government secured a $12 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund in 2016. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Egypt says it received final, $2 billion portion of IMF loan

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Car crash in Cairo kills 19, forces evacuation of hospital

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2 refugees in Arizona charged with supporting Islamic State

By JACQUES BILLEAUD - Associated Press