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World’s largest solar energy park to open in Egypt next year

Aug 2, 2018

The largest solar power project in the world will go online next year in the Egyptian desert, in a reversal for a nation that has long depended on cheap, subsidized fossil fuels, according to the LA Times. Egyp...

Study Show First Humans may have come out of Egypt not Ethiopia

Bryan M Zarpentine

May 29, 2015

Innovation

A new study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics is questioning the notion that the first humans came from Ethiopia. Instead, the study suggests that modern humans exited from Egypt. The lead ...

Egypt releases two remaining Al Jazeera journalists on bail

Amanda

Feb 12, 2015

World

Two Al Jazeera journalists who had been languishing in Egyptian jails for more than 400 days have today been released following a court order. The release of Canadian bureau chief Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian pro...

Peter Greste released deported to Australia by Egypt

Egypt releases, deports Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste to Australia after 400 days in jail

Amanda

Feb 1, 2015

World

After nearly 400 days in prison on politicized charges about the content of his work and aiding a terrorist group, Al Jzaeera journalist Peter Greste was finally released from a Cairo jail and deported from the...

Ancient Egyptian burial site may contain one million bodies

Archaeologists in Egypt unearth a 1,700 year old burial site which may contain upto a million bodies

Amanda

Dec 19, 2014

Innovation

Archaeologists from Brigham Young University have uncovered nearly 1,700 mummified bodies at the Fag el-Gamous (Way of the Water Buffalo) site, around 60 miles south of Cairo and believe that there are many mor...

Egypt Releases Two Canadians from Prison

David

Oct 6, 2013

World

Late Saturday the Foreign Affairs department of Canada announced that two Canadian citizens had been released from an Egyptian prison. The two men had been held for several weeks without being charged with any ...

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