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Sharm-el-Sheikh (Egypt), July 16 (ANI): Without the presence of 21st century enfant terrible of the Middle East Mohammad Ahmadinejad, the towering personality of Fidel Castro or the biting wit of Venezuelian President Hugo Chavez, the 15th Non-Aligned Movement Summit meet lacks the glamour element.

The media room has journalists wondering which world leader to chase [...]

Cairo, July 9 (ANI): Archaeologists have unearthed a cache near the Western gate of the National Museum in Cairo, which contained a table made of limestone, a fragment of a slab with hieroglyphic inscriptions, some stones, and the base of a pharaonic pillar, which date back to the pharaonic period around [...]

Cairo, July 9 (ANI): Archaeologists have unearthed a cache near the Western gate of the National Museum in Cairo, which contained a table made of limestone, a fragment of a slab with hieroglyphic inscriptions, some stones, and the base of a pharaonic pillar, which date back to the pharaonic period around [...]

Washington, May 29 (ANI): Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the United States would present detailed plans on the Middle East peace process to the parties involved as part of its efforts to jump-start negotiations. We are going to be putting forward very specific proposals to the [...]

Jerusalem, May 18 (ANI): Only 31 percent of Israelis consider US President Barack Obama’s approach pro-Israel, a survey conducted ahead of the meeting between Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu revealed.

According to a Smith Research poll, 31 percent Israelis labeled Obama pro-Israel, while 14 percent said [...]

Cairo – Egypt’s public prosecutor on Wednesday accused Hezbollah of sending operatives to Egypt to carry out attacks in the country and to smuggle weapons and money to Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
In a statement released Wednesday evening Abdel-Magid Mohammed accused Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah of dispatching agents to Egypt during Israel’s offensive in [...]

Cairo – Egyptian security forces have arrested 49 men, including seven Israeli citizens and one Lebanese citizen, on charges of supporting Hamas and Hezbollah, the Interior Ministry and the lawyer for the men said on Wednesday.
The men, who were arrested in December from locations around Egypt, included 41 Egyptians, seven Arab Israelis, and at least [...]

London, April 2 (ANI): A group of builders, digging at a site in London, have unearthed what they believe is the fabled Staff of Moses.

According to a report in The Sun, the piece of wood was found by digger Charlie Kingston and his team as he dug a 20ft-deep trench on a site in [...]

Washington, March 16 (ANI): Scientists are aiming to re-create the perfume of Egyptian Pharaoh Hatshepsut, using residues from a 3,500 year old vessel.

Pharaoh Hatshepsut was a power-conscious woman who assumed the reins of government in Egypt around the year 1479 B.C.

It is believed that Hatshepsut was [...]

Washington, March 12 (ANI): Archaeologists in Egypt have found ancient golden jewelry in the tomb of a senior official who died about 3,500 years ago.

According to a report by the Voice of America, ancient golden jewelry found in a pharaonic era tomb thought to belong to a senior official under Egypt’s most powerful [...]

Leading Hamas member Mahmoud Zahar said on Tuesday some Palestinian officials, backed by the United States, were obstructing the dialogue due to open between Palestinian groups in Cairo on Wednesday.
“There are people who want this dialogue not to take place because they will lose their positions and their privileges,” he told Reuters in an interview [...]

Cairo – An hour after a bomb exploded near the steps of Cairo’s landmark Hussein Mosque in the heart of the city’s Medieval quarter, little remained to testify to the chaos and the panic that had so recently gripped the area.
Footprints led through puddles of blood on the mosque’s marble steps. Plainclothes police rapidly [...]

An explosive device detonated in a tourist area of the Egyptian capital Cairo on Sunday, wounding at least four people including foreigners, security sources said.
Citing witness reports, the sources said at least one device exploded after being thrown from a motorcycle in a historic district near the city centre.
Witnesses said a second device was also [...]

Cairo, February 23 (ANI): The Supreme Council of Antiquities, part of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture, has announced the discovery of an intact wooden and limestone sarcophagi housing dozens of mummies inside the Sixth-Dynasty tomb of Sennedjem in the Saqqara necropolis. [...]

New Delhi, Feb 12 (ANI): Archaeologists have found a 2,600-year-old mummy in Sakkara, Egypt, which is encased in a limestone sarcophagus.

This sarcophagus was found inside a burial chamber 11 meters below the ground, which contained another 30 mummies, wooden coffins, and limestone sarcophagi.
ccording to the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), the sarcophagus dates back [...]

Cairo – Police have detained a third pro-Palestinian blogger in Egypt, a source close to Egypt’s Interior Ministry confirmed on Tuesday.
The security source, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media, on Tuesday told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that police took Dia al-Din Gad from his home in [...]

Cairo – A Hamas delegation was expected to return to Cairo Monday amid fresh signs the group may be prepared to agree within 48 hours to a long-term truce with Israel to end fighting in the gaza Strip.
Cairo’s government-owned daily al-Gumhoriya on Monday cited unnamed “informed Egyptian sources” as saying that they expected Israel and [...]

Cairo/Jerusalem, Feb.8 (ANI): The Egyptian Government on Sunday expressed hope that a Gaza truce accord between Israel and the Hamas could be reached “very soon”.

Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki was quoted by a news agency as saying that Egypt has been mediating indirect talks for a lasting truce since the end of the 22-day [...]

Cairo – Chief Israeli negotiator Amos Gilad is expected in Cairo for high-level talks with Egyptian authorities Thursday, Egypt’s official MENA news agency reported.
His visit comes after talks between Hamas and Egypt ended on Wednesday without a final agreement on a truce.
Egypt had originally set Thursday as the deadline for Hamas to agree to a [...]

Sharm al-Sheikh, Egypt – World leaders met in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm-al-Sheikh on Sunday to discuss means of establishing a lasting peace in Gaza, as sporadic violence continued despite a unilateral Israeli truce that took effect early Sunday.
Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak and French President Nicolas Sarkozy were chairing Sunday’s summit.
UN Secretary General [...]