Egypt Tackles Dispersing Mediterranean Slick
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Egyptian authorities began cleaning up what remains of a 1,500-ton oil slick caused by a tanker collision in the Mediterranean on Monday, an Environment Ministry spokesman said.
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt  - Alexandria, the Egyptian coastal city where Cleopatra had love affairs with Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, is trying to regain some of its old glory as a tourism destination for European and Arab elites.
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Egypt&#39;s south-east Sinai peninsula is a sea-and-desert playground drawing hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. The most numerous foreigners are Israelis, and they flock to the Sinai in larger numbers than to any other destination.
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Turkey's new shipping regulations are causing an expensive bottleneck on the famed waterway.
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Large parts of the Middle East lost internet service Wednesday following damage to a communications cable running running between Palermo, Italy and Alexandria, Egypt. What caused the damage remains unclear.
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Shipping through Egypt&#39;s Suez Canal will resume today after a three-day halt caused by an oil tanker that ran aground halfway through it, shipping companies said.
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Egyptian investigators into car bombings at resorts on Egypt's Sinai peninsula which killed at least 30 people said that they had identified a number of suspects, as rescuers continued to sift through the rubble.
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SAIDIA, Morocco  - Ecologists say a tragedy is unfolding in north Africa where construction firms are moving in on some of the last unspoilt stretches of Mediterranean coastline in the search for profits.
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Egypt sends police to its border with Gaza to stop Palestinians stranded in Sinai from crossing over.
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Egypt launched a major operation to drain off water from the Nile threatening two prized pharaonic temples in the Luxor region in the south of the country.
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CAIRO, Dec. 21 -- Night and day, the farmers of the island in the Nile keep watch at the lapping brown edge of the river for the return of the Egyptian army. When the island's mosques call the Muslims to prayer, Christian farmers take the watch.
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Scientists have been sailing across the Atlantic in a bid to track down sand from the Sahara Desert.
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Two underwater cables damaged in the Mediterranean led to Internet disruptions across much of the Middle East, and officials said repairs could take days.
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Egyptian border guards wielding clubs and electric prods directed throngs of Palestinians as they crossed into Egypt for a second day Thursday, but made little attempt to block the flow from Gaza.
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The Egyptian authorities have reopened the Suez Canal after a broken-down fuel tanker which blocked the waterway was refloated. The canal was reopened at 9:10 am (0710 GMT), three
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MELLITAH: Libya, a key transit point for Africans trying to sneak into Europe, said overnight it had deported 1000 Egyptian migrants back home after their controversial expulsion from Italy.
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The great port of Alexandria was a bustling trade hub, a transit point for merchandise from throughout the ancient world &#151; until much of it vanished into the Mediterranean Sea.