Egypt working on Gaza border to stem smuggling
AP - 57 minutes agoEgyptian security officials say a project is under way along the Gaza border to stem smuggling into the Palestinian territory through underground tunnels.
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Egyptian security officials say a project is under way along the Gaza border to stem smuggling into the Palestinian territory through underground tunnels.
Residents of the Egyptian side of the border town of Rafah, a smuggling haven within tunneling distance of the Gaza strip, say engineers have begun a using heavy earth-moving equipment for a set of mysterious excavation works.
Ayman Raafa, an Egyptian born a Christian, was nine months old when the father he never knew converted to Islam.
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Egyptian earth-moving machinery was at work on the Gaza Strip border on Wednesday and an Israeli newspaper said a project was under way to build a subterranean metal wall to block Palestinian smuggling tunnels.
Egyptian engineers were carrying out major excavation work at the Gaza border on Wednesday as an Israeli daily reported that an anti-smuggling barrier was under construction, an AFP reporter said.
A top Egyptian official pressed Britain Wednesday to return an ancient stone tablet seen as an icon of his country and denied his countrymen were "pirates of the Caribbean" seeking to steal it back.
Cairo - Egypt is constructing an iron wall along its border with the Gaza Strip, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has reported. Haaretz said the wall, meant to curtail smuggling, would be between 9-10 kilometres long and would extend as far as 30 metres...
To cut smuggling tunnels into the Gaza Strip, Egypt is installing an impenetrable U.S.-made metal wall that will stretch about 7 miles and extend nearly 60 into the ground, the BBC is reporting.
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Her hair neatly tucked under a Muslim headscarf, Dawlat al-Amine practises aikido regularly in a Cairo gym where she and her female colleagues learn martial arts to protect other women.
Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki on Thursday rejected holding Middle East peace talks in Moscow in the absence of preliminary negotiations with Israel.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Israel would face dire consequences if it violated Turkish airspace to spy on Iran, the Turkish prime minister said in an interview with an Egyptian journalist.
After arrest at house with jihadist ties, officials question them about possible links to terrorism.