Cairo News

Egypt's national carrier EgyptAir will have direct flight services from Cairo to New Delhi; it is to be noted that the announcement comes after PM Modi's visit to the nation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Cairo on Saturday for a two-day state visit at the request of Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. 

The Boeing 737 operated by EgyptAir made a safe landing on the runway in Saudi Arabia, and all passengers disembarked the airplane with no injuries reported.

S Jaishankar meets Egyptian Foreign Minister in Cairo. During this, he discussed Ukraine conflict, food security and many other significant issues. He warned of the consequences of the Ukraine conflict over food during the press conference.

The train was heading from Cairo to the Nile Delta city of Mansoura and derailed at 13.54 local time (11:54 GMT), about 40 kilometres north of Cairo, Egyptian National Railways said in a short statement. The cause of the accident is being investigated, it added.

The snake massage being offered at an Egyptian spa is not for the faint-hearted. The spa offers a snake massage to its customers in which snakes crawl on the backs of clients. The spa uses pythons and many other snakes, which are non-venomous.

Islamic State said the London Bridge attack on Friday was carried out by one of its fighters, the group’s Amaq news agency reported on Saturday. The group did not provide any evidence.

A statement from British Airways announced the suspension but did not give any reasons for it.

Israeli warplanes fired missiles targeting Syrian military positions in Homs and the Damascus outskirts in an attack that killed at least four civilians and wounded another 21, Syrian state media said.

Supporters of the two London clubs from as far as Japan, Indonesia, the Middle East, Russia, the United States and other countries mingled with some English fans on Baku`s Caspian Sea promenade ahead of Wednesday`s final.

Eyewitness Ibrahim Hussein said: "I saw a man pointing from the locomotive as it entered the platform, and screaming `There are no brakes! There are no brakes!`, before he jumped out of the locomotive.

In 1881, archaeologists came across Deir El Bahri valley which hid the mummies of some of the greatest  Egyptian pharaohs - Rameses the Great, Seti I and Tuthmosis III. Five years later, they came across the mummy of a young man – his hands and feed bound, face contorted in extreme pain. 

Egyptian officials say a sightseeing balloon carrying foreign tourists over the southern city of Luxor has crash landed, killing one tourist and injuring seven.

Egypt on Tuesday executed 15 militants charged with killing nine members of the security forces in a 2013 attack in the country`s northeast, a government official said.

The shooting took place in the al-Amirya village, west of Cairo.  

The death toll in a devastating militant attack on a mosque on Friday in Egypt's North Sinai has risen to 305 killed, MENA state news agency said on Saturday.

The Egyptian air force today gunned down several militants and destroyed their vehicles, hours after over 230 worshippers were killed in a terrorist attack at a mosque in the country's restive North Sinai region.

Besides the 235 dead, over 120 people were injured in the deadly attack.   

At least 184 worshippers were killed and 125 others injured when militants struck a mosque during Friday prayers in Egypt's restive North Sinai region, in the deadliest terror attack in the country.

Egypt's government has declared three days of mourning after an attack on north Sinai mosque killed at least 85 people on Friday, state television said.