A search and rescue operation was under way on Thursday after an EgyptAir Airbus A320 with 66 people on board vanished from radar en route from Paris to Cairo, the airline said.
At least 50 people including firefighters suffered minor injuries on Monday when a fire spread quickly through a commercial area in downtown Cairo, Egyptian officials said.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi welcoming Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifah upon his arrival at Cairo’s international airport.
Israel sent fighter planes to intercept an unidentified passenger aircraft entering its airspace and escorted it to land at Tel Aviv, the Israeli military said.
Egyptian investigators on Thursday spent more than four hours briefing Italian counterparts on their so-far inconclusive probe into the torture and murder of an Italian student in Cairo.
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman started a five-day visit to Cairo in a show of support for Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, with the leaders due to sign a raft of investment deals.
An EgyptAir plane flying from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked and forced to land in Cyprus but the passengers and crew were freed unharmed and the hijacker was arrested after giving himself up.
An Egyptian military court has handed down seven death sentences for an April 2015 bombing that killed two army cadets as they waited to board a bus, an army official said.
Thousands of Egyptian doctors demonstrated in Cairo on Friday in a rare protest at what rights groups call police impunity after two doctors were alleged to have been assaulted in a hospital in the city last month.
The body of a 28-year-old Italian student who had disappeared in Cairo last week and was found dead was repatriated yesterday to Italy which has launched an investigation into his death.
An Egyptian appeals court overturned on Wednesday death sentences for 149 pro-Islamists accused of killing policemen in a mob attack on their station, a judicial source said.
