Locusts sweep through Cairo
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Photo taken on Nov. 17, 2004 shows a locust landed in the Egyptian capital of Cairo. Massive swarms of locusts on Wednesday swept through Cairo after threatening the country&#39;s northern fertile regions.
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Torn by war, famine and disease, the world&#39;s most tortured continent faces a new horror: the biggest swarms of locusts for 15 years. Steve Connor reports on a gathering menace ...
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Gunmen raided a building to seize two Egyptians during the night in Baghdad, in the third in a new series of audacious operations to kidnap foreigners in the capital this month.
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Swarms of locusts that have devastated crops and pastures across West Africa may hit countries as far away as Pakistan, a U.N. agency said Wednesday as it announced an intensified control campaign.
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Swarms of desert locusts are moving across northwest Africa, threatening to devastate crops in an increasing number of countries, U.N. officials warned Friday.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip, Jan. 24 -- Egyptian security forces began imposing control over the country's breached border with the Gaza Strip on Thursday, using clubs and dogs to police the thousands of Gazans still making their way past barricades blown up or toppled by Palestinian gunmen a day earlier.
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Archaeologists unveil the latest finds at the Saqqara necropolis, or city of the dead, near Cairo.
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ROME Sept. 17, 2004 - Swarms of desert locusts are moving across northwest Africa, threatening to devastate crops in an increasing number of countries, UN officials warned Friday.
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Swarms of locusts blown off the Mediterranean towards the Egyptian capital, Cairo, are not expected to cause major damage to crops.
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Swarms of pink locusts swept through the Egyptian capital on Wednesday, evoking the biblical description of the plagues which struck in the time of Moses.
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Egypt on Monday showed off some of the 619 ancient artifacts smuggled out of the country in the late 1990s and repatriated from London last week.
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The United Nations is flying six more aircraft to combat swarms of crop-devouring locusts in west Africa.
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ROME -- Swarms of locusts that have devastated crops and pastures across West Africa may hit countries as far away as Pakistan, a UN agency said yesterday as it announced an intensified control campaign. The desert locusts are moving into southwest Libya, southern Algeria, and the borders of Morocco, the Rome-based UN Food and Agriculture Organization said. Other swarms were ...
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Gunmen seized two Egyptians from their  Baghdad office overnight, the third in a series of operations  to kidnap foreigners in the Iraqi capital this month.
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More than 600 Egyptian antiquities flew back to Egypt from the UK four years after they were stolen.
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ISMAILIA, Egypt  - Egypt called in police reinforcements and sealed gaps at the breached border with the Gaza Strip on Thursday.
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The Sudanese government has readied 13 planes for fighting swarms of desert locusts, poised to enter the country from Egypt.