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Gunmen opened fire Friday on a bus carrying Coptic Christians south of Cairo in Egypt killing 26 people and wounding 25, according to officials.

EGYPT’S Health Ministry says an explosion at a church in the coastal city of Alexandria has killed 11 people, and wounded at least 35 others.

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi is to visit the White House for the first time since he led the military's overthrow of his predecessor in 2013.

Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak left a military hospital on Friday where he had spent much of his six-year detention, his lawyer said.

Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak is to be released this week, his lawyer said on Monday, after an appeals court acquitted him of involvement in the deaths of protesters during the 2011 uprising against him.

Egypt's security services have forcibly disappeared and tortured hundreds of people in the past year in an effort to wipe out dissent, a rights group says.

THE cockpit voice recorder of the crashed EgyptAir MS804 suggests attempts were made to put out a fire on board, investigation committee sources have indicated.

THE memory chips of EgyptAir 804’s black box voice recorder are intact and investigators should be able to access it, a committee probing the plane disaster said on Saturday.

Sisi declares the ouster of Egypt's first democratically-elected president a national holiday with lavish celebrations.

Investigators have downloaded data from one of the black box flight recorders on EgyptAir Flight MS804 and are preparing to analyze it, bringing them closer discovering what caused the jet to crash, Egypt’s investigation committee said on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Egypt's investigation committee says it hopes to glean data from repaired recorder

THE mysterious EgyptAir plane made three emergency landings just 24 hours before it crashed into the Mediterranean killing all 66 people on board, it has been claimed.

Egypt’s flag has been raised over the first Mistral amphibious assault ship, which Cairo has purchased f-rom France. Originating f-rom a severed Moscow-Paris contract, the ship and its twin are equipped with Russian electronics.

A signal detected f-rom deep under the Mediterranean belongs to a black box f-rom the doomed EgyptAir Flight MS804 that crashed last month killing 66 people on board, French investigators confirmed Wednesday.

Egypt said Wednesday that a French ship has picked up signals f-rom deep under the Mediterranean Sea

EGYPTIAN forensics officials are collecting DNA f-rom relatives of EgyptAir MS804 victims to help identify body parts retrieved f-rom the Mediterranean, as Greece will soon dispatch crash information to Egyptian authorities.

A senior Egyptian forensics official says human remains recovered f-rom the crash site of EgyptAir Flight 804 have burns on them and are "very tiny," which suggests an explosion may have taken place in midair on board the aircraft.

The crucial black boxes f-rom EgyptAir Flight 804 have yet to be recovered after the plane disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea last week with 66 people aboard. The United States, France, Egypt and other countries are contributing to search teams combing the area.

Whatever triggered a meltdown of the Airbus’s flight controls could also have brought instant death in the cockpit.

EGYPT’S civil aviation minister has told relatives of the passengers of the EgyptAir crash there are “no survivors” f-rom flight MS804.