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Latest news and world events from Egypt. A North African country with a rich and ancient history, monuments like the Nile River Valley, Giza's Pyramids, the Great Sphinx, and Valley of the Kings tombs still prove popular with tourists. Egypt's capital, Cairo, has a population of around 9.5 million.

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  1. Scientists even more confident a vast city exists under Giza Pyramids after new discovery

    Is there really a 'vast underground city' beneath the Pyramids of Giza?

    Channel: Tech Tech 3 days ago By Danny Rigg
  2. Crew of Sindbad submarine that sank in Hurghada, Egypt, questioned by police
  3. Moment Sindbad submarine starts to sink with tourists standing on the top deck
  4. Two children among dead on submarine 'carrying 45 Russian tourists' in Egypt
  5. What we know about Sindbad tourist submarines that sank in Hurghada

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Play Video Sindbad submarine starts to sink.

Moment Sindbad submarine starts to sink with tourists standing on the top deck

Channel: World World 3 days ago By Jasper King
The rescue site for a sunken tourist submarine in Red Sea off the coast of Hurghada, Egypt.

Crew of Sindbad submarine that sank in Hurghada, Egypt, questioned by police

Channel: World World 3 days ago By Jasper King
Sinbad submarines docked. Release date March 27 2025. A British holiday-maker who travelled onboard the doomed Sindbad submarine which sank killing six passengers just three days ago today (thurs) told of her shock at the tragedy. Kelly Collins, 32, descended 25 metres below the surface in the sub on Monday, March 24. Now, the ?shocked? HGV driver, who was on holiday with her partner, says she?ll never go on a submarine again. Kelly, from Wigan, Greater Manchester, decided to go on the sub with her partner Sharon, 54, after they saw the experience advertised on social media. She said: ??I?m shocked, saddened and in disbelief to hear the news about the poor people on the submarine.

What we know about Sindbad tourist submarines that sank in Hurghada

Channel: World World 3 days ago By Gergana Krasteva
Sinbad submarine

Two children among dead on submarine 'carrying 45 Russian tourists' in Egypt

Channel: World World 3 days ago By Gergana Krasteva
Scientists even more confident a vast city exists under Giza Pyramids after new discovery

Is there really a 'vast underground city' beneath the Pyramids of Giza?

Channel: Tech Tech 3 days ago By Danny Rigg
Jessica Lindsay sitting in a heart-shaped wooden structure in front of the sea in Egypt.

I never left my hotel in the ‘cradle of civilisation’ – but I’d do it again

Channel: Travel Travel March 16, 2025 By Jessica Lindsay
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Xinhua/Shutterstock (15196880b) Photo taken on March 13, 2025 shows the wreckage of a minibus at the site of a train-minibus crash in Ismailia province, Egypt. At least eight persons were killed and 12 others wounded after a minibus was hit by a train in northeastern Egypt's Ismailia province on Thursday, according to a statement from the Health Ministry. Egypt Ismailia Train Minibus Crash - 14 Mar 2025

Ten dead after train hits minibus carrying children home from nursery

Channel: World World March 13, 2025 By Danny Rigg
An EasyJet plane flying in the air.

EasyJet pilot 'flew too close to mountains with 190 passengers on board'

Channel: UK UK March 12, 2025 By Noora Mykkanen
Play Video Bradley Walsh smiling while presenting The Chase.

Bradley Walsh: 'I finally know the truth about the Egyptian Pyramids'

Channel: TV TV March 11, 2025 By Meghna Amin
These handout pictures released by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities on February 19, 2025 show the entrance to the tomb of King Thutmose II in Luxor in southern Egypt. Egypt's antiquities authority says it has found the ancient tomb of King Thutmose II, the first royal burial to be found since the famed discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. The tomb, discovered near the Valley of the Kings in Luxor in southern Egypt, belonged to King Thutmose II of the 18th dynasty, who lived nearly 3,500 years ago. (Photo by Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / HANDOUT / EGYPTIAN MINISTRY OF ANTIQUITIES" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by -/Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities/AFP via Getty Images)

Second Egyptian tomb could contain mummy of pharaoh who died 3,500 years ago

Channel: World World February 23, 2025 By Katie Boyden
The orange sunrise at the temple of Philae seen from the Nile river, Egypt

I went on a Nile River cruise — here's what I wish I'd known beforehand

Channel: Travel Travel February 23, 2025 By Katie Boyden
14410863 Egypt announces it's discovered first new royal tomb since Tutankhamen’s over a 100 years ago

New royal tomb of 'brutal' Egyptian Pharaoh discovered after 3,500 years

Channel: World World February 19, 2025 By Luke Alsford
Play Video USS Harry S Truman, US Navy aircraft carrier, which was in collision with a merchant vessel in the Suez Canal.

Nuclear-powered aircraft carrier crashes with ship in Suez Canal

Channel: World World February 14, 2025 By Noora Mykkanen

We finally know what ancient Egyptian mummies smell like

Channel: World World February 14, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
The marina in Hurghada, Egypt, with a huge cruise ship in port

The 'Red Sea Riviera' has 5-star resorts cheaper than a Heathrow hotel

Channel: Travel Travel February 13, 2025 By Alice Murphy
Play Video Laila Soueif, mother of jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, poses for a portrait during a hunger strike.

Mum ‘prepared to die’ after 130 days of hunger strike for imprisoned son

Channel: UK UK February 8, 2025 By Jasper King
GAZA CITY, GAZA - Palestinians continue to return back to their homes

Could Donald Trump's plan to build a Riviera in Gaza spark conflict in the Middle East?

Channel: World World February 5, 2025 By Gergana Krasteva
Panoramic view of St. Paul bay with acropolis of Lindos in background, Rhodes island, Greece

17 sunny destinations for an Easter holiday

Channel: Travel Travel March 12, 2025 By Anushka Suharu
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Wreck of lost British ship found in Turkey more than 150 years after it sank

Channel: Tech Tech January 29, 2025 By Jen Mills
Displaced Palestinians wait along the Salah al-Din road in Nuseirat

Trump says he wants to 'clean out' Gaza and relocate Palestinians in Arab nations

Channel: World World January 26, 2025 By Gergana Krasteva

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