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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/27/2024 1:51:26 PM
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi discussed on Friday with US President Joe Biden the ongoing efforts to reach a humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip to protect civilians, exchange captives and prisoners, and give access to humanitarian aid, to reduce tension and end the current war.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
1/25/2024 9:43:40 PM
Egypt’s Ministry of Interior announced in a statement on Thursday the release of 4,187 prisoners as per a presidential pardon on the occasion of National Police Day.
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World
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War in Ukraine
1/24/2024 12:55:50 PM
A Russian military transport plane carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war, six crew and three people accompanying them crashed on Wednesday morning in Russia’s Belgorod region near Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry said.
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World
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International
1/23/2024 10:18:06 PM
Environmental activists face a severe crackdown in Britain, a UN expert warned Tuesday, lamenting that peaceful protesters face long prison terms and are the targets of "toxic discourse".
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
1/20/2024 4:01:26 PM
Relatives of prisoners held in Gaza protested Saturday outside the home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, expressing frustration over his government’s seeming lack of progress in getting the more than 100 individuals released as the Israeli war on Gaza drags on.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
1/18/2024 10:59:48 PM
A Cairo Misdemeanor Court handed over political activist Yahia Hussein Abdel-Hady a year-suspended prison sentence on Thursday for spreading false news online.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
1/11/2024 10:28:56 AM
Barely two weeks after he was released from prison in 1990, Nelson Mandela flew to Zambia to meet with African leaders who had supported his fight against South Africa's apartheid system of forced racial segregation.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
1/10/2024 4:08:35 PM
An Iranian court has sentenced pop singer Mehdi Yarrahi to prison time and 74 lashes after he released a song criticising the mandatory headscarf for women, his lawyer said Tuesday.
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World
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Region
1/6/2024 1:00:38 PM
The United Arab Emirates on Saturday acknowledged it is conducting a trial of 84 inmates previously reported by dissidents as it hosted the United Nations COP28 climate talks last month.
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Multimedia
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In Pictures
12/26/2023 5:19:06 PM
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
12/24/2023 7:36:00 PM
A delegation of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement (PIJ), headed by Ziad Nakhaleh, the secretary-general of the movement, arrived in Egypt on Sunday, Egyptian news outlet Al Qahera News reported.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
12/20/2023 11:50:49 PM
Amnesty International on Wednesday called for an urgent probe into Israel's "enforced disappearance" of Palestinian detainees from Gaza, following reports of deaths in military detention centres.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
12/20/2023 12:51:19 PM
The head of Hamas Ismail Haniyeh arrived in Cairo on Wednesday for talks with Egyptian officials on a ceasefire in Gaza and a prisoner exchange, after Israel said it was willing to agree to another pause in exchange for more captives.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
12/19/2023 11:18:49 PM
Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh is set to visit Egypt Wednesday for talks on a ceasefire in Gaza and a prisoner exchange with Israel, a source close to the Palestinian group said.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
12/19/2023 1:17:00 PM
In 2023, political life in Egypt saw two major developments — the holding of the National Dialogue and the release of hundreds of political prisoners
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World
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International
12/13/2023 3:25:56 PM
Armenia and Azerbaijan on Wednesday swapped prisoners of war, their first step towards normalisation since peace talks stalled after Baku recaptured the long-disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
12/6/2023 10:06:04 PM
For all Palestinian parents, Marwan Tamimi said, there comes a moment they realize they're powerless to protect their children.
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World
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Africa
12/4/2023 8:50:51 PM
A court in Nouakchott on Monday sentenced former president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to five years in prison for having abused his position to amass an ill-gotten fortune.
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Multimedia
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In Pictures
11/30/2023 10:31:18 AM
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/29/2023 9:59:57 AM
A truce between Israel and Hamas enters its sixth day Wednesday after additional Palestinian prisoners were released in exchange for Israeli captives with mediators pushing for a "sustainable" ceasefire.
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