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Palestinians rescue a young girl from the rubble of a destroyed residential building following an Israeli airstrike, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. The militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented attack on Israel Saturday, killing over 900 people and taking captives. Israel launched heavy retaliatory airstrikes on the enclave, killing hundreds of Palestinians. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Live updates | Day 5 of the latest Israel-Palestinian war

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Palestinians evacuate wounded in Israeli aerial bombing on Jabaliya, near Gaza City, Wednesday, Oct.11, 2023 (AP Photo/Mohammad Al Masri)

Israeli strikes demolish entire Gaza neighborhoods as sealed-off territory faces imminent blackout

By Joseph Krauss and Wafaa Shurafa - Associated Press

CORRECTS LOCATION Palestinians walk away from the kibbutz of Kfar Azza, Israel, near the fence with the Gaza strip on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. The militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel at daybreak Saturday, firing thousands of rockets as dozens of Hamas fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations by air, land, and sea and catching the country off-guard on a major holiday. (AP Photo/Hassan Eslaiah)

Live updates | Israel’s Netanyahu says offensive against Hamas will ‘reverberate’ for generations

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Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., talks to reporters as he holds Pen and Pad on assuming chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Cardin freezes military aid to Egypt, questions support for Azerbaijan

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Firefighters climb up a ladder on the burning building of police headquarters in Ismailia, northeastern Egypt following a fire Monday, Oct. 2, 2023. A huge fire broke out early Monday in the police headquarters, injuring multiple people, the health ministry said. (AP Photo)

A big fire at a police headquarters in northeastern Egypt injures at least 38 people

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Supporters of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi celebrate during a march in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Oct. 2, 2023. Egypt will hold a presidential election over three days in December, with President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi highly likely to prolong his stay in power until 2030. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Egypt’s President el-Sissi confirms he will run for a new term in upcoming presidential elections

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FILE - Construction work takes place, at the site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam near Assosa, Ethiopia on June 28, 2013. Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan resumed their years-long negotiations Sunday Aug. 27, 2023 over the controversial dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile River’s main tributary, officials said. (AP Photo/Elias Asmare, File)

Latest talks between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt over mega dam on the Nile end without breakthrough

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FILE - Vehicles pass under a billboard supporting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi for the coming presidential elections, erected by Egypt's political party of Homat Watan, the Protectors of the Nation, in Cairo, Egypt, on Sept. 4, 2023. Arabic reads, "yes for stability." Egypt will hold a presidential election over three days in December, officials announced Monday, Sept. 25, 2023 with President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi highly likely to prolong his stay in power until 2030. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Egypt sets a presidential election for December with el-Sissi likely to stay in power until 2030

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Republican presidential candidate former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie during a campaign event, Monday, July 24, 2023, in Concord, N.H. Christie is the only GOP White House contender to campaign in New Hampshire since Monday. He's devoting the vast majority of his time to the Granite State, and South Carolina, to a lesser degree. “There’s a lot of people competing in Iowa — hard — and not as many people competing hard in New Hampshire,” Christie said in an interview. “I think it’s a mistake and I think I’m going to benefit from it.” (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Ex-N.J. Gov. Chris Christie has ‘no interest’ in running for Senate amid indictment of Bob Menendez

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

This photo, which was included in an indictment of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), shows a jacket bearing Menendez's name, along with cash from envelops found inside the Jacket during a search by federal agents of the senator's home in Harrison, N.J., in 2022. Federal prosecutors announced charges of bribery against Menendez and his wife, Nadine Arslanian Menendez, on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. Additional information on the jacket was redacted by the source. (U.S. Attorney's Office via AP)

Feds indict New Jersey Democratic Sen. Menendez, wife on sweeping bribery charges

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Hossam Bahgat sits for a photograph, in his office at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights in Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 7, 2011. An Egyptian court has sentenced Hisham Kassem, a fierce government critic, to six months in prison over charges the stemmed from an online spat with a former minister and opposition figure, according to Hossam Bahgat, head of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights which represents Kassem before the court. (Sarah Rafea via AP, File)

Egyptian court gives a government critic a 6-month sentence in a case condemned by rights groups

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Vehicles pass under a billboard supporting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi for the coming presidential elections, erected by Egypt's political party of Homat Watan, the Protectors of the Nation, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. Arabic reads, "yes for stability." (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

The U.S. says Egypt’s human rights picture hasn’t improved, but it’s withholding less aid regardless

By Ellen Knickmeyer - Associated Press

A boy plays at the site of recently demolished graves in Cairo's historic City of the Dead, Egypt, Sept. 1, 2023. Authorities have already razed hundreds of tombs and mausoleums as they carry out plans to build a network of multilane highways through the City of the Dead, a vast cemetery in the Egyptian capital that has been in use for more than a millennium. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Historic Cairo cemetery faces destruction from new highways as Egypt’s government reshapes the city

By Lee Keath and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Egypt's presidency media office, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, right, greets Sudan's army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan at the Presidential palace in el-Alamein city, Egypt, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. (Egyptian Presidency Media Office via AP)

EgyptAir will resume direct flights from Egypt to conflict-stricken Sudan

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From left, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, China's President Xi Jinping, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pose for a BRICS group photo during the 2023 BRICS Summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. (Gianluigi Guercia/Pool via AP)

Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are among 6 nations set to join China and Russia in BRICS economic bloc

By Gerald Imray and Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

A man cries after speaking with survivors of a deadly migrant boat sinking at a migrant camp in Malakasa north of Athens, on June 19, 2023. Nearly two months after a dilapidated fishing trawler crammed with people heading from Libya to Italy sank in the central Mediterranean, killing hundreds, relatives are still frantically searching for their loved ones among the missing and the dead.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

With hundreds lost in the migrant shipwreck near Greece, identifying the dead is painfully slow

By Elena Becatoros and Abby Sewell - Associated Press

A giant portrait of activist and researcher Patrick George Zaki, hangs from the facade of Rome's Capitol Hill on Jan. 25, 2021. A prominent Egyptian rights activist with ties to Italy walked free from jail Thursday, July 20, 2023 a rights defender said. Patrick George Zaki, a post graduate student in Italy, was pardoned by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, along with five other people on Wednesday, according to the country’s Official Gazette. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP, File)

Two prominent Egyptian rights figures released from prison following pardons

By Jack Jeffery and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Protesters demonstrate in support of Patrick Zaki by the Piazza del Nettuno, in Bologna, Italy, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. An Egyptian court sentenced Zaki, a rights activist, on Tuesday to three years in prison over an opinion article he wrote in 2019 in a case that renewed global attention to Egypt's intolerance of government critics. He was arrested in February 2020 shortly after landing in Cairo on a short trip home from Italy where he was a postgraduate student at the University of Bologna. (Guido Calamosca/LaPresse via AP)

Egypt pardons jailed activists, including two prominent rights defenders, official reports say

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

A mural depicts detained Egyptian human rights advocate and student at the University of Bologna in Italy, Patrick George Zaki, being hugged from behind by Italian researcher Giulio Regeni, who was murdered in Cairo in 2016, on a wall in Rome, Feb. 19, 2020. An Egyptian court has sentenced Patrick George Zaki to three years in prison over an opinion article he wrote in 2019. Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights said the court on Tuesday, July 18, 2023 convicted Zaki of “disseminating false news” related to his article about alleged discrimination against Coptic Christians in Egypt. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

An Egyptian court hands down 3-year prison sentence to rights activist in case that echoed in Italy

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Egypt's Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly left, and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi walk during a welcome ceremony in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, June 24, 2023. (Egypt's Prime Minister's Office via AP)

Egypt’s president gives highest honor to visiting Indian prime minister amid improving ties

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press