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This is the world's largest sinkhole
Sinkholes have been responsible for swallowing up homes and vehicles. But this particular one is big enough to consume a small country. Located in northern Egypt, the Qattara Depression measures an extraordinary 7,500 square miles and has been
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Ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi dies in court
Egypt's former president Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who rose to office in the country's first free elections in 2012 and was ousted a year later by the military, has collapsed in court during a trial and died, state
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Seventeen injured as tourist bus hit by bomb near Egypt’s Giza Pyramids
A roadside bomb has hit a tourist bus near the Giza Pyramids, Egyptian officials have said. The blast on Sunday wounded at least 17 people, including tourists, officials confirmed. The officials said the bus was travelling on a road close to the
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Ancient cemetery found at Giza pyramids
Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered part of an ancient cemetery near the country's famed pyramids on the Giza plateau just outside Cairo. Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the cemetery houses
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I survived a shark attack
Dramatic footage shows a diver being bitten on the leg by a shark off the coast of Egypt – and living to tell the tale. In June 2018, Alexander Kraenkl was diving in the Red Sea when he encountered the oceanic whitetip shark. The
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Egypt security forces kill 40 suspected militants after tourist bus bombed
Egyptian security forces have killed 40 suspected militants in three separate incidents in North Sinai and Giza, the ministry of interior said on Saturday, a day after a deadly bombing on a Vietnamese tourist bus in Giza killed four people. The
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Bomb kills three Vietnamese tourists, guide near Egypt pyramids
A roadside bomb has hit a tourist bus near the Pyramids of Giza, south of the capital Cairo, killing three Vietnamese and their Egyptian guide, officials said. The bus was travelling in the Marioutiyah area near the pyramids on Friday when the
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