5,969,291 |
31.13159 |
33.79844 |
Egypt |
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Three soldiers were injured in an IED blast in west Arish, North Sinai, on 1 February. The IED was planted by the perpetrators near the international road of Arish-Qantara Sharq at kilometer 17. |
5,969,295 |
30.06418 |
31.22009 |
Egypt |
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Thousands of supporters of Egyptian popular Al-Ahly Sporting Club, aka Ultras Ahlawy, gathered at the club's stadium on 1 February to mark the fourth anniversary of the 2012 "Port Said Massacre" that left dozens dead. The Ultras (hard-core football fans), chanted slogans against the police, army and former army chief Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantawi, saying: "The people want to execute the field marshal." |
5,969,300 |
31.13159 |
33.79844 |
Egypt |
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Eight militants were killed and two suspects were arrested in a joint crackdown by the armed forces and police in North Sinai on 2 February. The crackdown targeted areas in Arish, south Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah. 3 fatalities recorded in Rafah and 2 in Sheikh Zuweyid. |
5,969,305 |
31.2878 |
34.2369 |
Egypt |
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Eight militants were killed and two suspects were arrested in a joint crackdown by the armed forces and police in North Sinai on 2 February. The crackdown targeted areas in Arish, south Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah. 3 fatalities recorded in Al-Arish and 2 in Sheikh Zuweyid. |
5,969,310 |
31.2163 |
34.11074 |
Egypt |
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Eight militants were killed and two suspects were arrested in a joint crackdown by the armed forces and police in North Sinai on 2 February. The crackdown targeted areas in Arish, south Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah. 3 fatalities recorded in Al-Arish and 3 in Rafah. |
5,969,314 |
29.96667 |
31.25 |
Egypt |
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Two members of the militant group Ajnad Misr (Soldiers of Egypt) were killed in a shootout with police forces in Cairo district of Hadiq al-Ma'adi on Wednesday [3 February]. Police raided the place, exchanged fire with the militants and seized large amount of weapons, ammunition and explosive materials. |
5,969,317 |
30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
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Pro-Qaddafi supporters protested at a seminar at the Cairo Book Fair addressed by Qaddafi's former foreign minister and ambassador to the UN at the time of the revolution. The protesters threw bottles of water at him and accussed him of bring a traitor. |
5,969,320 |
28.10988 |
30.7503 |
Egypt |
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Some 500 villagers from Hassan Bashademonstratedon Wednesday 3 February in front of Minya governorate building demanding the return of a 17-year-old teenager kidnapped. |
5,969,326 |
29.94644 |
30.91687 |
Egypt |
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A 28-year-old Italian Ph.D. student in Cambridge University, disappeared on Jan. 25. His deceased body was later found in a roadside ditch along a highway in the 6th of October suburb on Cairo's western outskirts with stab wounds, cigarette burns and torture marks. |
5,969,329 |
30.07708 |
31.28591 |
Egypt |
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Taxi drivers organised aproteston 4 February near Mostafa Mahmoud mosque in Cairo, as they expressed their objections to private taxi services such as Uber and Careem, which have become popular among Egyptians recently. |