Egypt's Walls Come Tumbling Down
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CAIRO -- Two outer walls are cracked and crumbling, the bathroom walls have fallen down in a heap of brick, the steps to the second floor wiggle like loose teeth. Groundwater seeps into a little courtyard to form an unwanted wading pool. The whole two-story structure sags in the middle, as if suspended from a rope attached to the buildings next door.
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RAFAH, Gaza  - Palestinian militants blew up part of the wall between Gaza and Egypt on Wednesday, and tens of thousands of Palestinians poured into Egypt to stock up on food and fuel in short supply due to an Israeli blockade.
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HERAT, Afghanistan  - They survived three decades of war but risk being toppled by road traffic -- the last five mediaeval minarets of Herat are being slowly shaken to dust.
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CAIRO, Egypt - Three explosions shook popular resorts on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, where Israelis were vacationing Thursday night at the close of a Jewish holiday, Egyptian officials and witnesses said.    The first blast, about 10 p.m., shook the Hilton hotel in the Taba resort, only yards from the Israeli border...
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The collapse of Sungnye Gate, a 600-year-old landmark designated a top national treasure, shocked the country.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Egyptian security forces greatly reduced their presence along the breached Gaza border late on Friday after Palestinian militants defied their attempts to seal the gaps by bulldozing a new opening.
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Hamas-backed militants driving bulldozers knocked down more fortifications Friday along the Gaza-Egypt border Â a brazen challenge to Egyptian riot police, who abandoned their positions after attempting to reseal the frontier using human chains, dogs and water cannons.
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A 12-story building collapsed in Egypt's Mediterranean port city of Alexandria on Monday, killing at least five people
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A 12-story building collapsed Monday in Egypt's Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, killing at least five people, a police official and witnesses said.
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Egypt cuts off supplies to its border zone with Gaza to discourage Palestinians from pouring into the area.
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Sleeping in the sand and running out of money, thousands of Palestinians have been stranded in Egypt's desert for more than a month since the border with Hamas-controlled Gaza has been closed.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Tens of thousands of Palestinians poured into Egypt from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday through a border wall blown up by militants and stocked up on food and fuel in short supply due to an Israeli blockade.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Egypt began closing its breached border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday, using barbed wire and water cannons to keep Palestinians from crossing into Egypt in defiance of an Israeli blockade.
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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's security forces began closing off a section of its border with Gaza Sunday, 11 days after Palestinians blasted gaps in the wall, Palestinians at the border told CNN.
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Dozens of policemen in riot gear at Egyptian checkpoints set up in the pouring rain just a few miles from the border with Gaza yesterday failed to halt the relentless flow of Palestinians into Egypt five days after the border was breached
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Tens of thousands of  Palestinians poured into Egypt from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday  after militants blew up a border wall, and stocked up on food  and fuel in short supply because of an Israeli blockade.