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Mubarak says foreign hands were behind church attack
A Coptic protester in Alexandria hurls an object at riot police who opened fire outside The Saints church, after an attack outside the church that killed 21 people and wounded 79.
Egypt said a suicide bomber killed 21 people and wounded 79 outside a Coptic Christian church, in an attack President Hosni Mubarak said was the work of “foreign hands.”
Growing numbers of Christians were continuing...
Car bomb at Egyptian church kills 21 as worshippers gather to celebrate New Year
Authorities inspect the site of a car bomb that targeted midnight Christian worshippers outside the Al-Qiddissine (The Saints) church in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria this morning.
A car bombing outside a church killed 21 people in Egypt’s northern city of Alexandria as worshippers gathered to mark the New Year.
The Interior Ministry said 24 people were also wounded in the bombing, which...
Egypt uncovers 'Israeli spy ring'
One of the cases involved an alleged spy ring in the Sinai peninsula.
Egyptian officials have charged a local businessman and two Israelis with recruiting agents to spy for Israel.
State prosecutor Hisham Badawi said Tareq Hassan was charged with harming Egypt’s national interests. The two Israelis were charged in absentia.
It comes a day after Egyptian sources said an alleged spy cell, with...
Libyan ship carrying aid for Gaza heads for Egypt
In this image taken from undated video footage, people on board the Amalthea wave Palestinian flag at sea in unknown country. A Libyan boat carrying supplies for Gaza was sailing toward Egypt late Tuesday, July 13, 2010 instead of trying to run a naval blockade of the Palestinian territory, Israeli military officials said, apparently defusing a potential confrontation on the high seas. The Gadhafi...
Egypt relaunches nuclear program with help from IAEA
Yukiya Amano
The International Atomic Energy Agency is ready to help Egypt in the construction of nuclear power stations, IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said on Tuesday during a visit to Cairo.
“The agency is happy to co-operate with Egypt in its nuclear energy programme,” Amano told reporters, adding that Egypt was close to finalising the project and its location.
President Hosni Mubarak declared...
Egypt rejects Israel's request not to assist Iranian ships trying to break Gaza blockade
Israel Navy ship and 'Rachel Corrie' aid ship
Kuwaiti paper says Egypt denied Israeli request to prevent Gaza aid ships from passing through Suez Canal.
Egypt rejected Israel’s request not to assist the Iranian ships slated to sail to the Gaza Strip in the coming days, Kuwaiti paper al-Dar reported on Friday. The report was not confirmed by any official Egyptian elements.
Facts regarding...
Egyptian minister says "Obama Told Me He Is A Muslim"
Very few media has picked up what Egypt Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said on Nile-TV in regards to Obama confirming he is a Muslim.
Obama told me he is still a Muslim, who supports the Muslim agenda.
This was a statement by Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit on Nile-TV. It was made on the «Round table show».
This is the statement recorded:
Adul Gheit said he had a one-on-one meeting...
Egypt to revoke citizenship of men wedded to Israelis
Egypt's border with Israel
Supreme Court in Egypt rules in favor of petition seeking to strip Egyptian citizenship of man who married woman from Israel. Lawyer: Importance of case is in creating separation fence between Egyptian and Israeli youth.
Egypt’s supreme administrative court, which is the court of last appeal, upheld a ruling Saturday of a lower court stipulating that Egyptian men...
More than 5,000 Palestinians cross newly opened Gaza-Egypt border
A Palestinian woman and her daughter arrive at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip hoping to cross into Egypt on June 1, 2010.
More than 5,000 Palestinians have crossed the border between Gaza and Egypt since the Egyptian president ordered it opened eight days ago, border security sources said on Tuesday.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak opened the crossing in the border town of
Rafah...
King Tut's DNA is Western European
Despite the refusal of the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, to release any DNA results which might indicate the racial ancestry of Pharaoh Tutankhamen, the leaked results reveal that King Tut’s DNA is a 99.6 percent match with Western European Y chromosomes.
The DNA test results were inadvertently revealed on a Discovery Channel TV documentary filmed...
Egypt practices invading Israel
Egyptian Army
Egyptian military forces on Sunday concluded maneuvers in the Sinai Peninsula that simulated an invasion of southern Israel.
Dubbed “Badr-2010,” the exercise featured an armed crossing of the Suez Canal followed by a deep thrust into “enemy territory,” reported the Middle East News Agency (MENA). The only “enemy” territory west of the Suez Canal is...
57 ancient tombs with mummies unearthed in Egypt
Archeologists have unearthed 57 ancient Egyptian tombs, most of which hold an ornately painted wooden sarcophagus with a mummy inside, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said Sunday.
The oldest tombs date back to around 2750 B.C. during the period of Egypt’s first and second dynasties, the council said in a statement. Twelve of the tombs belong the 18th dynasty which ruled Egypt during...
Huge head of pharaoh unearthed in Egypt
The head was part of a gigantic statue with its hands crossed over its chest
A colossal red granite head of one of Egypt’s most famous pharaohs has been unearthed in the southern city of Luxor, officials said.
The 3,000-year-old head of Amenhotep III – grandfather of Tutankhamun – was dug out of the ruins of the pharaoh’s mortuary temple.
Experts say it is the best preserved...
Muslims kill 7 at Egypt church after Christians allegedly raped muslim girl
Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox church, leads prayers at the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, early Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010.
Three men in a car sprayed automatic gunfire into a crowd of churchgoers in southern Egyptian as they left a midnight Mass for Coptic Christmas, killing at least seven people in a drive-by shooting, the church bishop and security officials said.
Egypt’s...
How Christians are treated in Egypt
Coptic Christians have almost zero rights in Egypt as the Islamic religion is getting more and more aggressive with each and every passing year, dreaming of world domination.
Remember that the majority of these Coptic Christians are native Arab Egyptians. Imagine what they would have had to go through if they were white Europeans as well as Christians.
And all of this while in Europe, Muslims erect...