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COMMENTARY / World
Nov 28, 2016
Why Tunisia's path looks brighter than Egypt's
Egypt and Tunesia both underwent regime five years ago and face similar economic problems, but Tunesia's embrace of political inclusion means it could soon be on the path to a healthy recovery.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 24, 2016
Egypt unearths city and cemetery over 7,000 years old
Egypt has unearthed a more than 7,000-year-old city and cemetery dating back to its First Dynasty in the southern province of Sohag, the Antiquities Ministry said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Sep 28, 2016
Death toll up to 202 as Egypt finds 33 more corpses while salvaging sunken migrant boat
Thirty-three bodies were recovered on Tuesday as the wreck of boat that sank off Egypt last week with hundreds of migrants aboard was lifted from the depths, raising the confirmed death toll to 202, a local official said.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 21, 2016
Hany Abu-Assad: Making strong voices heard
Ever since the first series of "Pop Idol" screened on British TV in 2001, the televised music competition has become practically inescapable, with franchises springing up everywhere from Macedonia to the Maldives. Given how cannily stage-managed these "reality" shows really are, though, it almost comes...
WORLD
Jul 17, 2016
Flight recorder on EgyptAir MS804 indicates fire before crash
Audio from the flight recorder of crashed EgyptAir Flight MS804 mentions a fire on board the plane in its final moments, the investigation committee said on Saturday, confirming what sources on the committee had previously told Reuters.
WORLD / Society
Jul 6, 2016
Italy rescues 4,500 migrants in Mediterranean after seas calm
Some 4,500 migrants were rescued from rubber dinghies and a wooden boat in the Mediterranean on Tuesday, Italy's coast guard said, as the sea calmed after a rough weekend.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 29, 2016
France sends data files from crashed EgyptAir jet's repaired black box back to Egypt
Data files from crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 were sent to Egypt on Tuesday after one of the plane's black box flight recorders was repaired in France, bringing investigators closer to explaining the doomed jet's fate.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 25, 2016
No sign EgyptAir plane had any technical problems before takeoff, crash: sources
The EgyptAir jet that disappeared last week did not show any technical problems before taking off from Paris, sources within the Egyptian investigation committee said late Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
May 13, 2016
Italy coast guard rescues nearly 900 Syrians, Iraqis who sailed from Egypt
Italy's coast guard rescued nearly 900 mostly Syrian refugees from two boats off western Sicily on Thursday, a coast guard spokesman said, amid signs that refugees from the Middle East are increasingly shunning the Greek route into Europe.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 19, 2016
Red Sea island sale underlines Egypt's weakness
Egypt's facade of regional greatness came crashing down when it relinquished two islands to Saudi Arabia in exchange for aid.
WORLD
Mar 29, 2016
Egypt's al-Sissi sacks top auditor who alleged mass state corruption
President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi on Monday sacked Egypt's top auditor who had stirred controversy by publicly concluding that government corruption had cost the country billions of dollars.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 17, 2016
Nissan halts Egyptian plant expansion over currency access snag
Nissan Motor Co.'s Egyptian unit has frozen a plant expansion project in Cairo due to a lack of access to foreign currency that prompted policy changes this week by the central bank to help investors from abroad.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 29, 2016
Japan to provide Egypt with ¥2 trillion business project, take in 2,500 students
Japan has pledged to continue supporting Egypt’s democratic process five years after revolution swept the country and ousted Hosni Mubarak.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 25, 2016
Can Egypt and Ethiopia share the Nile River?
Egypt has always been defined by the Nile, but today its reliance on the river could be its undoing.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 24, 2015
Time has come for a new century in the Middle East
2016 should mark the start of a new century of homegrown Middle Eastern politics focused urgently on the challenges of sustainable development.
WORLD
Dec 8, 2015
IED tossed at bystanders at downtown Moscow bus stop; three wounded
Three people were injured in central Moscow late Monday after an improvised explosive device was thrown at a group of bystanders at a bus stop, police said, according to Russian news services.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 29, 2015
Tut tomb may conceal Egypt’s lost queen; new evidence headed to Japan for analysis
Chances are high that the tomb of ancient Egypt's boy-king Tutankhamun has passages to a hidden chamber, which may be the lost last resting place of Queen Nefertiti, experts said on Saturday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 15, 2015
Syrian passport found near Paris gunman held by man who arrived in Greece among refugees
The holder of a Syrian passport found near the body of one of the gunmen who died in Friday night's attacks in Paris passed through Greece in October, a Greek minister said.

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