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| Jan.4 |
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Egypt troops killed at Gaza border |
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| Jan.11 |
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Bus crash kills six Australian tourists |
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| Jan.21 |
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African Nations Cup opened |
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| Jan.22 |
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Sudan dispute dogs African summit Leaders are gathering in Khartoum amid a row over Sudan's bid to chair the body for the next year
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| Feb.3 |
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Ship with 1,400 sinks in Red Sea| An aging passenger ferry loaded to near capacity with dozens of vehicles sank. 100 survivors had been rescued | | |
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Hundreds feared died as ferry sinks
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Hopes dim for ferry missing Hopes are fading of finding alive more than 900 people still missing a day after a ferry sank in the Red Sea
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| Feb.4 |
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Officials: Fire made ferry sink Transport minister has said a blaze set off a sequence of events that led it to sink in the Red Sea
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| Feb.5 |
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Ferry 'pressed on despite fire'
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Tensions high at ferry port |
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Hamas leadership to meet in Cairo |
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| Feb.6 |
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Crowd trashes ferry office
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| Feb.7 |
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Ivory Coast gets to final of African Cup |
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| Feb.8 |
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Brazilian leader to bolster ties, U.N. bid |
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Ship blocks Suez Canal |
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| Feb.9 |
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Egyptian diplomat abducted |
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Sudan and Chad sign peace deal |
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| Feb.10 |
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Pharaonic tomb find Archaeologists have discovered an intact, ancient tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the first since 1922
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Hosts won African Nations Cup Egypt is beating Ivory Coast 4-2 on penalties after the final finished 0-0 after extra-time
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| Feb.12 |
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Rumsfeld pushes U.S. ties in N. Africa |
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| Feb.13 |
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Anger over election delay |
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| Feb.16 |
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Wreckage of ferry found |
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| Feb.17 |
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10 die in cartoon clash at consulate Police confronted protesters who had set fire to Italian consulate in the port city of Benghazi
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Bird flu cases confirmed in Egypt |
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| Feb.21 |
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Rice seeks Arab support in Hamas talks |
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| Mar.18 |
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Death is bird flu, test says |
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| Mar.20 |
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Islamic preacher ripped for reform push |
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| Mar.29 |
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Eyes to the sky as eclipse sweeps globe |
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| Apr.9 |
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Iraq angered by civil war warning
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| Apr.13 |
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Egypt reports 4th bird flu death
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| Apr.14 |
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Attacks on churches: 1 dead Knife-wielding assailants attacked worshippers at 3 Coptic churches in the city of Alexandria during Mass
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Chad cuts Sudan ties after attack
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| Apr.15 |
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Clashes follow Copt funeral
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| Apr.24 |
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Three bombs rip through resort 23 people, including 3 foreigners, were killed and 62 others were wounded in in the Red Sea town of Dahab
| The blasts took place about 7:15 p.m. at 2 cafeterias and a supermarket. 42 of the wounded are Egyptian and 3 are members of the police. The dead included 20 Egyptians and 3 foreigners, including a German child. 4 Americans are among the wounded
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| Apr.25 |
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Several arrests after resort blasts
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| Apr.26 |
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Blasts near peacekeeping base
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Egypt ties Dahab blasts to other attacks
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| Apr.27 |
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Al-Jazeera reporter released
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| Apr.30 |
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Sudan accepts Darfur peace deal
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| May.2 |
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Sudan tops 'failed states index'
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| May.9 |
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Bombings 'mastermind' killed el-Mallahi was the leader of the terrorist group blamed for recent bombing attacks in the Sinai peninsula
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| May.11 |
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Violence at Cairo trial protests There have been violent clashes in the centre of the capital between protesters and riot police
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| May.15 |
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U.S. to restore relations with Libya The United States intends to remove Libya from the list of state sponsors of terrorism
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| May.17 |
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Youths torn from camps, forced to fights Children as young as 13 from squalid refugee camps are being forced into combat by Sudanese rebels
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| May.19 |
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Hamas official seized with $800k Palestinian border police briefly detained Sami Abu Zuhri accused of smuggling more than into the Strip
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| Jun.4 |
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Olmert to meet with Abbas on peace plan
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| Jun.28 |
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Tunisian held in mosque bombing
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| Jul.3 |
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18 migrants drown, 12 missing
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| Aug.5 |
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Al-Jamaa Islamiya joins al Qaeda
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| Aug.7 |
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Darfur rebel leader is presidential aide
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| Aug.12 |
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9 Egyptian students in U.S. custody
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| Aug.20 |
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Train crash kills 57 2 trains collided in the Nile Delta north of Cairo during the morning commute
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| Aug.29 |
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Sudan again spurns U.N. force plan
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| Sep.4 |
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Train crash kills three A cargo train collided with a passenger train just north of Cairo near Shebin el-Qanater in Qalyoubiya Province
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| Sep.8 |
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Sudan will free Tribune reporter
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| Sep.16 |
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VP backs U.N. troops in Darfur
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| Oct.17 |
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Sudan 'backs' Janjaweed fighters
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| Oct.19 |
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Dozens injured in gas pipeline explosion
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| Oct.22 |
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Sudan expels U.N. envoy for blog| The government gave Jan Pronk, who has openly criticized Khartoum as well as rebels, three days to leave. Jan Pronk has sharply criticized the Sudanese governme... | |
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| Oct.26 |
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Sudan slams envoy to Sudan The Sudanese ambassador lambasted the UN's chief envoy to Sudan for insulting the country's government on a Web blog
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Jail for al-Qaeda-linked plotter
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| Nov.9 |
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Mubarak warns on Saddam execution Egyptian President has warned that hanging former Iraqi leader will lead to even more bloodshed in Iraq
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| Nov.16 |
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Sudan 'backs' Darfur force plan 
| Sudan has agreed in principle to allow a joint UN and African Union peacekeeping force into Darfur | |
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| Nov.28 |
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13 migrant children drown
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| Dec.2 |
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Egypt to dig up pharaonic tombs
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| Dec.15 |
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Egypt seeks to ease Gaza tensions The officials seeking to broker a deal between Palestinian groups have met Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip
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| Dec.19 |
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HIV medics condemned to death | A court convicted 5 Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor of deliberately infecting 400 children with the virus. The sentence is provoking shouts of approval from the children's relatives. Bulgaria reiterated its belief that the children were infected by unhygienic conditions in their hospital.
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| Dec.22 |
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Sudan agrees to U.N. peacekeeping plan The government has accepted the package for Darfur, including the deployment of an operation of U.N. and AU troops
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|
| 2006 |
|
| Jan.4 |
Egypt troops killed at Gaza border |
|
| Feb.9 |
Sudan and Chad sign peace deal |
|
| Feb.12 |
Rumsfeld pushes U.S. ties in N. Africa |
|
| Apr.26 |
Blasts near peacekeeping base
|
| Apr.30 |
Sudan accepts Darfur peace deal
|
| May.17 |
Youths torn from camps, forced to fights Children as young as 13 from squalid refugee camps are being forced into combat by Sudanese rebels
|
| Sep.16 |
VP backs U.N. troops in Darfur
|
| Oct.17 |
Sudan 'backs' Janjaweed fighters
|
| Nov.16 |
Sudan 'backs' Darfur force plan | Sudan has agreed in principle to allow a joint UN and African Union peacekeeping force into Darfur | |
|
| Dec.15 |
Egypt seeks to ease Gaza tensions The officials seeking to broker a deal between Palestinian groups have met Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip
|
| Dec.22 |
Sudan agrees to U.N. peacekeeping plan The government has accepted the package for Darfur, including the deployment of an operation of U.N. and AU troops
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|
| 2006 |
|
| Jan.11 |
Bus crash kills six Australian tourists |
|
| Feb.3 |
Ship with 1,400 sinks in Red Sea| An aging passenger ferry loaded to near capacity with dozens of vehicles sank. 100 survivors had been rescued | | |
|
| Feb.3 |
Hundreds feared died as ferry sinks
|
| Feb.3 |
Hopes dim for ferry missing Hopes are fading of finding alive more than 900 people still missing a day after a ferry sank in the Red Sea
|
| Feb.4 |
Officials: Fire made ferry sink Transport minister has said a blaze set off a sequence of events that led it to sink in the Red Sea
|
| Feb.5 |
Ferry 'pressed on despite fire'
|
| Feb.5 |
Tensions high at ferry port |
|
| Feb.8 |
Ship blocks Suez Canal |
|
| Feb.16 |
Wreckage of ferry found |
|
| Feb.17 |
Bird flu cases confirmed in Egypt |
|
| Mar.18 |
Death is bird flu, test says |
|
| Apr.13 |
Egypt reports 4th bird flu death
|
| Jul.3 |
18 migrants drown, 12 missing
|
| Aug.20 |
Train crash kills 57 2 trains collided in the Nile Delta north of Cairo during the morning commute
|
| Sep.4 |
Train crash kills three A cargo train collided with a passenger train just north of Cairo near Shebin el-Qanater in Qalyoubiya Province
|
| Oct.19 |
Dozens injured in gas pipeline explosion
|
| Nov.28 |
13 migrant children drown
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Jan.21 |
African Nations Cup opened |
|
| Feb.7 |
Ivory Coast gets to final of African Cup |
|
| Feb.10 |
Hosts won African Nations Cup Egypt is beating Ivory Coast 4-2 on penalties after the final finished 0-0 after extra-time
|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Feb.6 |
Crowd trashes ferry office
|
| Feb.9 |
Egyptian diplomat abducted |
|
| Apr.14 |
Attacks on churches: 1 dead Knife-wielding assailants attacked worshippers at 3 Coptic churches in the city of Alexandria during Mass
|
| Apr.24 |
Three bombs rip through resort 23 people, including 3 foreigners, were killed and 62 others were wounded in in the Red Sea town of Dahab
| The blasts took place about 7:15 p.m. at 2 cafeterias and a supermarket. 42 of the wounded are Egyptian and 3 are members of the police. The dead included 20 Egyptians and 3 foreigners, including a German child. 4 Americans are among the wounded
|
| | |
|
| Apr.25 |
Several arrests after resort blasts
|
| Apr.26 |
Egypt ties Dahab blasts to other attacks
|
| May.9 |
Bombings 'mastermind' killed el-Mallahi was the leader of the terrorist group blamed for recent bombing attacks in the Sinai peninsula
|
| May.19 |
Hamas official seized with $800k Palestinian border police briefly detained Sami Abu Zuhri accused of smuggling more than into the Strip
|
| Jun.28 |
Tunisian held in mosque bombing
|
| Aug.5 |
Al-Jamaa Islamiya joins al Qaeda
|
| Sep.8 |
Sudan will free Tribune reporter
|
| Oct.26 |
Jail for al-Qaeda-linked plotter
|
| Dec.19 |
HIV medics condemned to death | A court convicted 5 Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor of deliberately infecting 400 children with the virus. The sentence is provoking shouts of approval from the children's relatives. Bulgaria reiterated its belief that the children were infected by unhygienic conditions in their hospital.
... | |
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|
| 2006 |
|
| Jan.22 |
Sudan dispute dogs African summit Leaders are gathering in Khartoum amid a row over Sudan's bid to chair the body for the next year
|
| Feb.5 |
Tensions high at ferry port |
|
| Feb.5 |
Hamas leadership to meet in Cairo |
|
| Feb.8 |
Brazilian leader to bolster ties, U.N. bid |
|
| Feb.9 |
Sudan and Chad sign peace deal |
|
| Feb.10 |
Pharaonic tomb find Archaeologists have discovered an intact, ancient tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the first since 1922
|
| Feb.12 |
Rumsfeld pushes U.S. ties in N. Africa |
|
| Feb.13 |
Anger over election delay |
|
| Feb.17 |
10 die in cartoon clash at consulate Police confronted protesters who had set fire to Italian consulate in the port city of Benghazi
|
| Feb.21 |
Rice seeks Arab support in Hamas talks |
|
| Mar.20 |
Islamic preacher ripped for reform push |
|
| Mar.29 |
Eyes to the sky as eclipse sweeps globe |
|
| Apr.9 |
Iraq angered by civil war warning
|
| Apr.14 |
Chad cuts Sudan ties after attack
|
| Apr.15 |
Clashes follow Copt funeral
|
| Apr.27 |
Al-Jazeera reporter released
|
| Apr.30 |
Sudan accepts Darfur peace deal
|
| May.2 |
Sudan tops 'failed states index'
|
| May.11 |
Violence at Cairo trial protests There have been violent clashes in the centre of the capital between protesters and riot police
|
| May.15 |
U.S. to restore relations with Libya The United States intends to remove Libya from the list of state sponsors of terrorism
|
| Jun.4 |
Olmert to meet with Abbas on peace plan
|
| Aug.7 |
Darfur rebel leader is presidential aide
|
| Aug.12 |
9 Egyptian students in U.S. custody
|
| Aug.29 |
Sudan again spurns U.N. force plan
|
| Sep.8 |
Sudan will free Tribune reporter
|
| Sep.16 |
VP backs U.N. troops in Darfur
|
| Oct.17 |
Sudan 'backs' Janjaweed fighters
|
| Oct.22 |
Sudan expels U.N. envoy for blog| The government gave Jan Pronk, who has openly criticized Khartoum as well as rebels, three days to leave. Jan Pronk has sharply criticized the Sudanese governme... | |
|
| Oct.26 |
Sudan slams envoy to Sudan The Sudanese ambassador lambasted the UN's chief envoy to Sudan for insulting the country's government on a Web blog
|
| Nov.9 |
Mubarak warns on Saddam execution Egyptian President has warned that hanging former Iraqi leader will lead to even more bloodshed in Iraq
|
| Nov.16 |
Sudan 'backs' Darfur force plan | Sudan has agreed in principle to allow a joint UN and African Union peacekeeping force into Darfur | |
|
| Nov.28 |
13 migrant children drown
|
| Dec.2 |
Egypt to dig up pharaonic tombs
|
| Dec.15 |
Egypt seeks to ease Gaza tensions The officials seeking to broker a deal between Palestinian groups have met Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip
|
| Dec.19 |
HIV medics condemned to death | A court convicted 5 Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor of deliberately infecting 400 children with the virus. The sentence is provoking shouts of approval from the children's relatives. Bulgaria reiterated its belief that the children were infected by unhygienic conditions in their hospital.
... | |
|
| Dec.22 |
Sudan agrees to U.N. peacekeeping plan The government has accepted the package for Darfur, including the deployment of an operation of U.N. and AU troops
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