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6,096,979 29.9925 31.2332 Egypt Dispute between a Muslim street vendor and a Christian shop owner sets off rioting that spreads to several nearby villages. Police seal off all three villages.
6,096,984 26.77 30.870001 Egypt Dispute between a Muslim street vendor and a Christian shop owner sets off rioting that spreads to several nearby villages. Police seal off all three villages.
6,096,991 30.146299 31.2334 Egypt About 3,000 villagers riot, hurling rocks at motorists and setting vehicles ablaze after a speeding truck killed a 16-year-old girl. Protesters demanded a crackdown on motorists who routinely ignore traffic rules along the route.
6,096,997 31.021 31.225 Egypt About 250 people riot against a police crackdown on contraband goods, overturning a police car but leaving no one hurt.
6,097,003 30.281 31.3409 Egypt Villagers clash with police, hurl rocks at a passing train, and set three buses on fire after one of three speeding buses that had been racing each other veered off the road into a group of girls walking to school, killing two of the girls.
6,097,010 30.064699 31.2495 Egypt The wives of three Islamist journalists jailed for libeling a government minister they said had collaborated with Israel began a sit-in in front of the attorney general's office. They were joined by several Labor Party leaders.
6,097,017 30.064699 31.2495 Egypt About 8,000 students of Al-Azhar University take to the streets and clash with police, damaging over a dozen police cars and injuring three officers, demanding the resignation of Egypt's culture minister for publishing a novel.
6,097,023 30.064699 31.2495 Egypt Thousands of political activists gathered for two separate meetings in different locations in Cairo to support two rival chairmen involved in a power struggle for leadership of Hizb al-Amal (The Labor Party).
6,097,030 30.064699 31.2495 Egypt Around 30 journalists, members of Egypt's Press Syndicate, begin a sit-in to protest the government's suspension of the opposition newspaper Al Shaab.
6,097,036 30.064699 31.2495 Egypt Nearly 200 workers at a Nestle factory in Cairo stage a sit-in protest over a pay dispute with management.
6,097,041 26.4098 30.0268 Egypt Tens of thousands of university students across the country engage in almost daily mass protests against Israeli actions against Palestinians and the Sharm el-Sheikh summit hosted by Egypt.
6,097,049 26.4098 30.0268 Egypt Fourteen killed, dozens wounded in violence surrounding Egypt's parliamentary elections. The fighting, which took place near polling stations across the country.
6,097,057 26.4098 30.0268 Egypt At least 20 journalists covering Egypt's parliamentary elections for both foreign and local media reported being attacked by policemen and plainclothes security men, as well as by some civilians, over the course of four-week election period.
6,097,063 26.415701 31.361799 Egypt Robbers attack a bank, prompting a gun battle in which local police and civilians are killed.
6,097,069 30.064699 31.2495 Egypt Around 3,000 students at Cairo University demonstrated peacefully against Israel and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon under police surveillance without incident.
6,097,074 30.064699 31.2495 Egypt Leaders of Egypt's journalists' union and leaders of the Cairo-based Arab lawyers' union call a short, symbolic work stoppage to mark what Arabs call Al-Nakba, or the catastrophe of the creation of Israel.
6,097,080 30.064699 31.2495 Egypt Over 1,000 Coptic Christians protest and riot inside Cairo's Abbasiya cathedral compound, angered by the publication by Al-Nabaa newspaper of pictures of a monk having sex with women inside a monastery in Assiut in southern Egypt.
6,097,085 27.1838 31.184999 Egypt Over 1,000 Coptic Christians protest and riot inside Cairo's Abbasiya cathedral compound, angered by the publication by Al-Nabaa newspaper of pictures of a monk having sex with women inside a monastery in Assiut in southern Egypt.
6,097,091 26.4098 30.0268 Egypt Over 3,000 unemployed college graduates protest a government decision restricting new public sector jobs and training places to people under 28 years old.
6,097,097 30.064699 31.2495 Egypt Nearly 2,000 Egyptians gather on a square chanting anti-Israeli slogans while calling for jihad (holy war) against the Jewish state, in reaction to the killing two days prior of eight Palestinians in an Israeli attack.
6,097,102 26.4098 30.0268 Egypt Egyptians honor a Palestinian-declared labor strike to protest against Israel's seizure of Orient House, a building described in the article as the nerve center for Palestinian nationalist aspirations in Jerusalem.
6,097,107 30.1593 31.2356 Egypt About 2,000 rioters block the main road from Cairo to Alexandria and riot after a 16-year-old schoolgirl is killed by a motorist.
6,097,113 26.4098 30.0268 Egypt Thousands of Egyptian citizens and university students across Egypt hold demonstrations denouncing U.S. and NATO actions in Afghanistan and the Egyptian government's support of those actions.
6,097,121 26.5516 31.691999 Egypt A firefight occurs between government forces and the 11/21/2000 bank robbers. The robbers are killed.
6,097,126 28.5958 30.691401 Egypt Muslim and Coptic Christian villagers clash at the inauguration of a new Christian church after an argument over the volume of the church's bells.
6,097,134 26.4098 30.0268 Egypt Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians hold massive demonstrations and riots on university campuses and mosques across Egypt in outrage at continuing Palestinian-Israeli violence and in opposition to U.S. actions against Iraq.
6,097,140 30.064699 31.2495 Egypt Some 50,000 mourners of Mustafa Mashhir, head of the Muslim Brotherhood who died at the age of 83 following a stroke, march quietly from a Cairo mosque to the cemetery where Mashhur was laid to rest in a massive show of solidarity with the MB.
6,097,146 30.249201 31.2038 Egypt About 1,000 villagers riot, blocking a main road and throwing debris on railroad tracks, after a car struck and killed two girls.
6,097,152 26.4098 30.0268 Egypt Hundreds of thousands of citizens hold massive demonstrations across the country in protest against the start of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. In the last weeks, protests begin to turn violent.
6,097,159 30.064699 31.2495 Egypt Dozens of members of the leftist Tagammu opposition party rally outside the Egyptian parliament to protest the rising cost of living in Egypt, which they blame on government economic policies.
6,097,165 30.064699 31.2495 Egypt Thousands of Egyptian citizens, including journalists, political activists, and university students, hold demonstrations in Cairo and on several university campuses in protest against Israeli attacks on Palestinians and the occupation of Iraq.
6,097,170 29.849001 31.3342 Egypt Thousands of Egyptian citizens, including journalists, political activists, and university students, hold demonstrations in Cairo and on several university campuses in protest against Israeli attacks on Palestinians and the occupation of Iraq.
6,097,174 31.1119 30.9361 Egypt Thousands of Egyptian citizens, including journalists, political activists, and university students, hold demonstrations in Cairo and on several university campuses in protest against Israeli attacks on Palestinians and the occupation of Iraq.
6,097,180 30.282 31.3883 Egypt Eleven people injured, four homes and eight market stalls of Coptic Christians burned during a brawl that took place in the village of Gazra (near Cairo) over rumors that Copts were planning to build a new church in the village.
6,097,188 30.064699 31.2495 Egypt Nearly 100 members of Egypt's main opposition parties gather in the capital's to petition the president for constitutional reforms, economic reforms, and an end to restrictions on political parties and on press freedoms.
6,097,194 26.4098 30.0268 Egypt Thousands of students and Muslim women hold several peaceful demonstrations over a span of two months in protest against the French ban on the hijab (head scarf).
6,097,200 30.064699 31.2495 Egypt American University in Cairo (AUC) students and faculty, including the president of the university, hold a rally to demand that Israel free AUC student Qassam Barghuti, son of arrested West Bank Fatah leader Marwan Barghuti.
6,097,206 25.334999 30.6113 Egypt A band of about 50 armed men led by clan leader Izzat Mohammed Hamid seize 160 hostages in the village of Nakhilah during a shootout with police who had been trying to arrest fugitives wanted for drug trafficking and other crimes.
6,097,213 31.198099 29.919201 Egypt About 3,000 students demonstrate at Alexandria University in protest against an Israeli police raid at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, Islam's third holiest site, a day earlier. Three students were arrested by police.
6,097,218 30.5546 31.0089 Egypt Around 5,000 students at Menoufia (Menoufia) University demonstrate in protest against U.S. plans for democracy in the Middle East, its support for Israel, and its occupation of Iraq.
6,097,224 30.064699 31.2495 Egypt Several hundred people gather in Cairo's central Tahrir square to mark the one-year anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and to denounce the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
6,097,230 26.4098 30.0268 Egypt Tens of thousands of university students on campuses across the country protest the Israeli assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin and the subsequent cancellation of the Arab summit in Tunisia.
6,097,236 30.064699 31.2495 Egypt Hundreds of students at Alexandria University and about 500 men at Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo protest U.S.-led sieges on Iraqi cities such as those in Fallujah and Najaf, express their solidarity with the rebel groups fighting U.S. forces in Iraq
6,097,241 31.198099 29.919201 Egypt Hundreds of students at Alexandria University and about 500 men at Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo protest U.S.-led sieges on Iraqi cities such as those in Fallujah and Najaf, express their solidarity with the rebel groups fighting U.S. forces in Iraq
6,097,249 30.064699 31.2495 Egypt About 50 Egyptian lawyers and journalists protest against the abuses of Iraqi detainees by U.S. soldiers and demand that U.S. Ambassador David C. Welch be kicked out of Egypt and that the soldiers involved be brought to justice.
6,097,255 30.064699 31.2495 Egypt In a small demonstration organized by several opposition parties, protesters gathered in front of the Arab League's Cairo headquarters as a summit of the Arab League was opening in Tunisia.
6,097,262 31.198099 29.919201 Egypt Fifty-six Egyptian and Palestinian prisoners at the Gharbaniyat prison near Alexandria engage in a hunger strike during the Arab League summit in Tunisia, saying they were being held for political reasons and demanding their freedom.
6,097,268 30.064699 31.2495 Egypt Tarek al-Zomor, an Egyptian Islamist imprisoned for his involvement in the assassination of former president Sadat stages, a hunger strike over his conditions.
6,097,274 30.064699 31.2495 Egypt Around 100 demonstrators protest outside Egypt's supreme court in Cairo to urge authorities to halt the use of torture across the country. The event was organized by several human rights groups and opposition parties.
6,097,280 31.277399 31.5709 Egypt A confrontation between local police and villagers breaks out as a police officer leads a team in an attempt to evacuate villagers from a sports center built on land owned by that officer.
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