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Egypt acquits 43 NGO workers on illegal funding charges

By HAMZA HENDAWI - Associated Press

Egypt says it killed 8 militants who planned holiday attacks

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Mustafa Abdo, chief of excavation workers walks at a recently uncovered tomb of the Priest royal Purification during the reign of King Nefer Ir-Ka-Re, named &quot;Wahtye.&quot;, at the site of the step pyramid of Saqqara, in Giza, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018. The Egyptian Archaeological Mission working at the Sacred Animal Necropolis in Saqqara archaeological site succeeded to uncover the tomb, Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Anani, announced. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Egypt announces discovery of 4,400-year-old tomb

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FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2017, file photo, Cameroon players pose with the trophy after winning the African Cup of Nations final soccer match against Egypt at the Stade de l'Amitie, in Libreville, Gabon. Cameroon was stripped of the right to host next year’s African Cup of Nations soccer tournament on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, with its preparations way behind schedule and a violent separatist rebellion in parts of the country making it a security risk. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, FIle)

Egypt bids for 2019 African Cup, South Africa considering

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018 photo, journalist and author Shady Lewis Botros poses with a copy of his book, &quot;Ways of the Lord,&quot; in London. The new Arabic-language novel, the author’s first, explores the lives of Egyptian Christians, dealing with discrimination but also a Church aligned with a state seeking to control them. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Egyptian novel explores Christians under controlling church

By HAMZA HENDAWI - Associated Press

Egypt says 27 militants killed in Sinai, border with Libya

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A visitor walks past a banner displaying Egyptian commandos during the first arms fair organized in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi inaugurated the fair, where hundreds of companies are participating. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

With arms fair, big-buyer Egypt aims to diversify sources

By BRIAN ROHAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2016, file photo, the family of Giulio Regeni follow his coffin during the funeral service in Fiumicello, Northern Italy. Egypt’s official news agency says prosecutors have rejected an Italian request to name several policemen as suspects in the 2016 killing of Regeni, an Italian graduate student in Cairo. The agency’s report, published Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, in state-owned newspapers, says the prosecutors turned down a similar request by the Italians a year ago on the grounds that there was no concrete evidence to incriminate the policemen. (AP Photo/Paolo Giovannini, File)

Lawyer for family of slain Italian warns Egypt suspects

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Egypt says plane hijacker to face terror charges

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FILE - In this Tuesday, May 5, 2015 file photo, rush hour traffic fills the 6 October bridge over the Nile River in Cairo, Egypt. Uber is launching a new minibus service on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018, in traffic-mad Cairo, Egypt’s capital and the ride-sharing U.S. giant’s fastest-growing market. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Uber announces new minibus service in traffic-mad Egypt

By BRIAN ROHAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2016, file photo, the family of Giulio Regeni follow his coffin during the funeral service in Fiumicello, Northern Italy. Egypt’s official news agency says prosecutors have rejected an Italian request to name several policemen as suspects in the 2016 killing of Regeni, an Italian graduate student in Cairo. The agency’s report, published Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, in state-owned newspapers, says the prosecutors turned down a similar request by the Italians a year ago on the grounds that there was no concrete evidence to incriminate the policemen. (AP Photo/Paolo Giovannini, File)

Egypt rejects naming of suspects in researcher’s killing

By HAMZA HENDAWI - Associated Press

Italy summons Egypt ambassador over Regeni killing

By MENNA ZAKI and FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2016 file photo, the family of Giulio Regeni follow his coffin during the funeral service in Fiumicello, Northern Italy. Italy raised the pressure Thursday Nov. 29, 2018, on Egypt for concrete answers to the brutal torture and murder of an Italian researcher nearly two years ago, with prosecutors indicating plans to investigate Egyptian secret service members and the speaker of Italy’s lower house broke parliamentary ties. Italian news agency ANSA reported prosecutors are set to open an investigation against seven Egyptian secret service members related murder in January 2016 of Giulio Regeni. (AP Photo/Paolo Giovannini, File)

Italy pressures Egypt anew for answers in student’s killing

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

This undated photo released by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018, shows archaeologists standing near an ancient mummy which was found inside a sarcophagus in area of King Amenemhat II's pyramid in the Dahshur royal necropolis, about 25 miles south of Cairo. Egypt says archaeologists have discovered eight limestone sarcophagi with mummies inside. (Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities via AP)

Archaeologists discover ancient mummies south of Cairo

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In this Nov. 8, 2017 file photo, Egyptian security officers guard a courthouse, in Cairo. Egypt has created a new high-powered human rights watchdog agency, but its primary mission isn’t to protect Egyptians from violations. Instead, the body is primarily aimed at protecting the government from allegations of rights abuses, especially those made by international groups. The new body reflects an attitude of the state under President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi that sees accusations of human rights violations to be intended to undermine the government and cause instability. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Egypt creates new human rights watchdog - to protect itself

By HAMZA HENDAWI - Associated Press

Egypt unveils pharaonic tomb found in Luxor

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This undated photo released by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, shows an archaeologist working on a block of limestone that was found in the temple of Ra, the ancient Egyptian god of the sun, in the Matariya neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt. The Antiquities Ministry said Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018, that archaeologists digging in Cairo found two blocks of limestone with inscriptions belonging to an engineer who worked for Ramses II, one of the longest ruling pharaohs in antiquity. (Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities via AP)

Blocks found in Egypt bear name of famed pharaoh’s builder

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Rights group: Egypt tortures, disappears children

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Egyptian sentenced to death for killing Christian doctor

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Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi attends a signing ceremony following his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. Putin and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi signed a strategic cooperation treaty Wednesday that is intended to bolster trade and other ties between the two nations. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, Pool)

Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi cracks down on dissent in Egypt

By Jacob Wirtschafter — Special to the Washington Times