6,097,578 |
27.8598 |
34.282398 |
Egypt |
|
Residents of Sharm el-Sheikh demonstrate against terrorism a day after their city was rocked by multiple bomb attacks, allegedly by a group calling itself the Al-Qaeda Organization in the Levant and Egypt, which killed 88 people. |
6,097,594 |
27.8598 |
34.282398 |
Egypt |
|
Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi of Al-Azhar, the highest authority in Sunni Islam, along with several other prominent Muslim clerics, leads a march of several hundred demonstrators to protest against the July 23 bomb attacks. |
6,097,600 |
30.064699 |
31.2495 |
Egypt |
|
Colleagues of a journalist suspected to have been abducted by security forces for assaulting a security officer during a recent pro-reform rally held by the Kefaya (Enough) movement hold a sit-in at the Press Syndicate's Cairo offices. |
6,097,605 |
29.299999 |
34 |
Egypt |
|
A roadside bomb explodes near a military base where international peacekeeping troops charged with protecting the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, injuring two Canadian peacekeepers. |
6,097,611 |
30.589199 |
32.2659 |
Egypt |
|
Police clash with gunmen suspected of connections to the Taba and Sharm el-Sheikh bombings. |
6,097,617 |
30.5089 |
33.762001 |
Egypt |
|
Islamists kill two police officers with land mines. |
6,097,622 |
30.064699 |
31.2495 |
Egypt |
|
Hundreds of members of the Kefaya movement, a pro-reform coalition, demonstrate in front of the Lawyers' Syndicate in Cairo to encourage Egyptian judges to insist on stronger powers in supervising next week's presidential elections. |
6,097,629 |
30.064699 |
31.2495 |
Egypt |
|
About 1,000 protesters march to a state security headquarters in western Cairo where some political detainees have died, chanting slogans and demanding the release of detainees, many of whom are members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood. |
6,097,634 |
30.064699 |
31.2495 |
Egypt |
|
Over 500 artists, writers, and intellectuals stage two separate protests against Farouk Hosni, Egypt's culture minister, who offered his resignation in the wake of a September 5 fire in a state-run theater in Beni Suef that killed 42 people. T |
6,097,641 |
31.2878 |
34.2369 |
Egypt |
|
After Palestinian and Egyptian border guards seal off the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip with barbed wire fencing and concrete barriers, Palestinian crowds throw stones at Egyptian and Palestinian border police. |
6,097,647 |
30.6528 |
34.028599 |
Egypt |
|
Egyptian security forces clash with suspects of the Sharm el-Sheihk bombings. |
6,097,652 |
30.064699 |
31.2495 |
Egypt |
|
More than 2,000 Sudanese refugees stage a three-month sit-in at a Cairo park less than 200 meters from the Cairo office of the UNHCR, criticizing the UNHCR of failing to help resettle them in the West. |
6,097,658 |
31.0406 |
30.469999 |
Egypt |
|
About 20 members of the pro-reform Kefaya (Enough) movement who were setting up a stage for a state security-approved conference on citizens' rights in the northern Nile Delta city of Damanhur are attacked by pro-govt. thugs. |
6,097,665 |
26.4098 |
30.0268 |
Egypt |
|
Thousands of Islamist university students affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood stage protests on campuses calling for greater freedom on campuses and in national politics. |
6,097,670 |
31.198099 |
29.919201 |
Egypt |
|
Tensions between Muslims and Coptic Christians over the DVD release of a Christian play deemed offensive to Islam erupt into violence. |
6,097,675 |
30.064699 |
31.2495 |
Egypt |
|
Egyptian police clash with 30 demonstrators, most of them wives, mothers, and children of political detainees, who had gathered outside the Interior Ministry to demand the release of their relatives. |
6,097,681 |
30.064699 |
31.2495 |
Egypt |
|
Two journalists covering the parliamentary elections are violently attacked in two separate incidents by unknown assailants who were apparently angered by the journalists' coverage of the elections. |
6,097,686 |
30.064699 |
31.2495 |
Egypt |
|
At least 3,000 Muslim Brotherhood supporters stage a demonstration outside the Mustafa Mahmoud mosque in Cairo to protest against the rigged results of the November 9 parliamentary vote; six demonstrators are arrested. |
6,097,691 |
26.4098 |
30.0268 |
Egypt |
|
Supporters of the ruling National Democratic Party intimidate and in some cases assault Muslim Brotherhood members and other voters at polling stations around the country. |
6,097,697 |
26.4098 |
30.0268 |
Egypt |
|
Several thousand Muslim Brotherhood supporters demonstrate in front of the main counting center for the Cairo district of Nasr City after polls close on the day of a runoff parliamentary election. |
6,097,703 |
30.064699 |
31.2495 |
Egypt |
|
Angry supporters of an independent parliamentary candidate torch the headquarters of the ruling National Democratic Party in the low-income Imbaba district of Cairo after learning that their candidate had lost. |
6,097,710 |
26.4098 |
30.0268 |
Egypt |
|
Massive, widespread violence erupts at dozens of polling stations across the country during the second round of parliamentary elections as Muslim Brotherhood supporters, police, and National Democratic Party-hired thugs clash. |
6,097,718 |
30.6528 |
34.028599 |
Egypt |
|
Egyptian security forces clash with suspects of the Sharm el-Sheihk bombings. |
6,097,723 |
26.4098 |
30.0268 |
Egypt |
|
Security forces open fire with live ammunition and use tear gas and batons to block opposition voters from casting their ballots at polling stations in opposition strongholds during a second runoff parliamentary election. |
6,097,730 |
30.064699 |
31.2495 |
Egypt |
|
Hundreds of supporters of opposition leader Ayman Nour of the al-Ghad (Tomorrow) party hold multiple demonstrations outside the courtroom where Nour is on trial for forgery charges. |
6,097,736 |
26.4098 |
30.0268 |
Egypt |
|
Groups of opposition voters angered at police using tear gas and rubber bullets to block them from voting in the final runoff in Egypt's three-stage parliamentary elections attack police with stones. |
6,097,742 |
30.064699 |
31.2495 |
Egypt |
|
Detained opposition leader Ayman Nour of the al-Ghad party, on trial for forgery in what many outside observers view as an attempt by the ruling party to eliminate a political threat, goes on hunger strike to protest his detention. |
6,098,986 |
30.064699 |
31.2495 |
Egypt |
|
Tens of thousands march against the regime. |
6,097,749 |
30.812201 |
31.558599 |
Egypt |
|
An altercation between a Muslim and a Christian results in the death of the Muslim. Muslim villagers later attack the Abu Sifin church and several Christian homes and loot several shops before authorities restore order. |
6,097,754 |
30.064699 |
31.2495 |
Egypt |
|
A few hundred supporters of the Kefaya (Enough) movement and its various offshoots demonstrate in central Cairo to protest against the legitimacy of parliamentary elections which it claims were fixed. |
6,097,759 |
31.2878 |
34.2369 |
Egypt |
|
Hundreds of angry Palestinians stream across the border from Gaza into Egypt after militants with stolen bulldozers break through a border wall. |
6,097,764 |
25.5833 |
32.483299 |
Egypt |
|
Violence erupts between Muslims and Coptic Christians in the town of Al-Udaysat when Muslims torch a Coptic-owned guest house being used as a church without the proper approval from authorities. |
6,097,771 |
30.064699 |
31.2495 |
Egypt |
|
Libyan soccer fans at the Cairo International Stadium rip plastic seats from the stands and hurl them at Egyptian riot police during a game between Egypt and Morocco in the Africa Cup of Nations soccer tournament. |
6,097,778 |
30.064699 |
31.2495 |
Egypt |
|
All 88 Muslim Brotherhood members of Egypt's parliament walk out briefly during session to protest the ejection of one of its members. |
6,097,785 |
26.4098 |
30.0268 |
Egypt |
|
Tens of thousands of Egyptian citizens hold massive demonstrations and riots in cities across Egypt over the publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammed. |
6,097,792 |
26.733299 |
33.9333 |
Egypt |
|
Hundreds of relatives of passengers aboard an Egyptian ferry that sank in the Red Sea gather at the docks in the port city of Safaga. |
6,097,797 |
27.257799 |
33.811699 |
Egypt |
|
Hundreds of relatives of passengers aboard an Egyptian ferry that sank in the Red Sea gather at the docks in the port city of Safaga. |
6,097,802 |
30.064699 |
31.2495 |
Egypt |
|
A series of street protests by hundreds of people employed in the poultry and related industries take place after a bird flu outbreak prompts the government to order the large-scale culling of birds and to allow more frozen poultry imports. |
6,097,808 |
30.064699 |
31.2495 |
Egypt |
|
Some 50 supporters of a rebel faction within the liberal Wafd opposition party seize control of the party's headquarters and open fire on some 700 Wafd party loyalists. |
6,097,819 |
31.198099 |
29.919201 |
Egypt |
|
A psychologically disturbed man fatally stabs an elderly Coptic Christian and wounds at least five other worshippers outside several Coptic churches in Alexandria, sparking three days of rioting and violent clashes between Muslims and Copts. |
6,097,828 |
30.064699 |
31.2495 |
Egypt |
|
Pro-reform judges and members of multiple opposition groups stage a series of protests in support of two judges facing disciplinary action after alleging the judiciary helped rig elections. |
6,097,835 |
26.1667 |
32.716702 |
Egypt |
|
Pro-reform judges and members of multiple opposition groups stage a series of protests in support of two judges facing disciplinary action after alleging the judiciary helped rig elections. |
6,097,840 |
31.131901 |
33.8032 |
Egypt |
|
Pro-reform judges and members of multiple opposition groups stage a series of protests in support of two judges facing disciplinary action after alleging the judiciary helped rig elections. |
6,097,847 |
30.064699 |
31.2495 |
Egypt |
|
Jailed opposition leader Ayman Nour of the al-Ghad (Tomorrow) party undertakes a three-day hunger strike to protest the conditions of his detention. |
6,097,853 |
30.064699 |
31.2495 |
Egypt |
|
More than 1,000 demonstrators gather in the low-income El-Zawiyah el-Hamrah district of Cairo to protest the arrests of 22 suspected members of a new Islamist group, Al-Ta'efa al-Mansoura (The Victorious Sect). |
6,097,859 |
28.508301 |
34.515598 |
Egypt |
|
Three bombs rip through a promenade in Dahab, a resort town located on the Sinai peninsula, killing at least 24 Egyptian and foreign tourists, including a five-year-old German child. |
6,097,865 |
31.0618 |
34.073002 |
Egypt |
|
Two suicide bombers target the Multinational Force and Egyptian police. There are no fatalities. |
6,097,872 |
30.42 |
31.48 |
Egypt |
|
Twenty-five members of the Muslim Brotherhood are arrested in the Nile Delta province of el-Sharqiya as they were hanging posters condemning Egypt's emergency laws which ban street demonstrations. |
6,097,878 |
30.7022 |
33.3764 |
Egypt |
|
Government forces clash with suspected terrorists. |
6,097,883 |
30.064699 |
31.2495 |
Egypt |
|
Members of the al-Ghad (Tomorrow) party demonstrate outside their party's headquarters following the ruling by an appeals court not to hear the case of former al-Ghad leader Ayman Nour, who was convicted on December 24, 2005, of forgery. |