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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/16/2026 5:29:43 PM
Al-Azhar, the world's leading Sunni Muslim institution, denounced and strongly condemned an attempt to target Mecca on Wednesday, warning that endangering the holy city would affront Muslims worldwide.
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Egypt
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Presidential Elections 2024
9/15/2026 10:49:12 PM
Egypt’s Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism warned that the kidnapping of six imams in northern Nigeria could signal a wider campaign targeting religious and community leaders, while ransom payments are helping to finance criminal networks and encourage further abductions.
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Egypt
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Health
9/15/2026 11:58:57 AM
Egypt’s Health Minister Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar said on Monday that the prevalence of anaemia among children fell from 42.3 percent in 2019 to eight percent in 2026, while the rate of stunting declined from 6.9 percent to four percent over the same period.
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Egypt
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Society
9/15/2026 11:12:11 AM
Egypt’s Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism has warned that terrorist organizations are increasingly exploiting artificial intelligence, video games, and digital platforms to reach, radicalize, and recruit children and young people.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
9/14/2026 10:23:09 PM
Three people were killed and 11 others injured after a bus caught fire following a collision with a truck on the Ismailia Desert Road in Qalyubia, north of Cairo, Egyptian authorities said.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
9/13/2026 4:49:09 PM
Al-Azhar's Global Centre for Electronic Fatwa said on Saturday that trees represent "life, benefit and civilisation" in Islamic teaching, and that caring for them is an act of obedience to God and the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), amid an ongoing public backlash over tree-felling in Cairo.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
9/12/2026 8:41:41 PM
Three people were killed, and 39 others were injured after a boat carrying 42 people sank off the coast of Alexandria, according to media reports citing anonymous Egyptian authorities and medical sources.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/11/2026 2:19:02 PM
Egypt’s trade with the BRICS group rose 25.5 percent year-on-year to $36.7 billion in the first half of 2026, up from $29.3 billion in the same period of 2025, according to data released by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) on Friday.
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Egypt
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Society
9/9/2026 9:02:44 PM
The cabinet approved a draft decision on Wednesday to extend by an additional year the deadline for foreign nationals residing illegally in Egypt under the host system to regularize their status and legalize their residency.
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Egypt
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Society
9/9/2026 3:30:58 PM
Egypt’s Housing Minister Randa El-Menshawy has ordered new-city authorities to enforce a complete ban on tree-cutting and protect all existing trees, green spaces and public parks, the ministry said.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/8/2026 7:25:19 PM
Egypt's Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, the world's leading Sunni Muslim institution, condemned on Tuesday the tearing of a copy of the Quran by a US far-right extremist inside a church in New York City.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
9/7/2026 10:03:15 PM
An Egyptian national was killed, and two Russian nationals were injured on Sunday after a private car overturned on the Cairo-Ain Sokhna road, according to initial reports.
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Egypt
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Society
9/7/2026 2:44:57 PM
Egyptians’ awareness of artificial intelligence applications nearly tripled to 65 percent in 2026 from 22 percent in 2023, according to a Cabinet Information and Decision Support Centre (IDSC) survey.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
9/5/2026 10:54:01 PM
Cairo Criminal Court sentenced on Saturday TV host and media personality Sarah Khalifa and 11 other defendants to death after convicting them of forming an organized criminal gang involved in importing materials used to manufacture synthetic drugs for trafficking.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
9/3/2026 6:41:03 PM
Egyptian police killed six highly dangerous criminal suspects during armed clashes in Aswan and Sohag governorates, while one officer was wounded and roughly 850 kilograms of narcotics and 118 unlicensed firearms were seized, the Ministry of Interior said.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
9/3/2026 10:51:54 AM
Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Chairman Osama Rabie and US Chargé d’Affaires in Cairo Robert Silverman discussed Wednesday ways to expand cooperation between Egypt and the United States in the maritime sector, including shipyards, maritime services, and digital transformation.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/2/2026 7:41:04 PM
President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and First Lady Entissar El-Sisi accompanied Chinese President Xi Jinping and First Lady Peng Liyuan on Wednesday on a tour of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Giza as part of Xi’s official visit to Egypt.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
9/2/2026 2:35:00 PM
The death toll from a passenger bus rollover on the Dahab-Nuweiba highway in South Sinai has risen to 22 people, with 28 others injured after a tyre burst caused the vehicle to overturn en route to the Nuweiba port.
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Egypt
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Society
9/1/2026 6:10:11 PM
Al-Azhar’s Media Centre has warned against fake promotional videos and advertisements generated using artificial intelligence that impersonate Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb to promote medicines and therapeutic products.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
8/31/2026 8:40:59 PM
Al-Azhar has condemned renewed Iranian attacks targeting the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, calling on Iran to "respect the principles of good neighbourliness" and halt what it described as "religiously prohibited attacks against its Muslim neighbours."
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