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Israel and Islamic Jihad reach cease-fire to end 5 days of fighting

A fragile cease-fire between Israeli forces and militants in the Gaza Strip appeared to be holding Sunday after a five-day clash that killed 33 Palestinians and two people in Israel.

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Islamic Jihad says Gaza truce agreed with Israel: Officials

Egypt-brokered ceasefire between Israel, Palestinian group in the besieged Gaza Strip went into effect at 19:00 GMT.

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Israel and Islamic Jihad reach cease-fire to end five days of fighting

Israel and the Islamic Jihad militant group in the Gaza Strip agreed to an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire late Saturday, ending five days of intense fighting that left 33 Palestinians, including at least 13 civilians, dead. Two people in Israel were killed by rocket fire.

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Israel, Palestinians agree to Gaza truce, Palestinian officials say

Israel and Gaza militant groups have agreed to an Egyptian-mediated ceasefire that will start at 2200 local (1900 GMT), two Palestinian officials told Reuters.

Reuters

Palestinian rockets fired towards Jerusalem, Israel kills militant leader

A Palestinian armed group on Friday fired rockets towards Jerusalem for the first time in fighting this week, and Israel killed another militant leader with its air strikes in Gaza, while Egypt tried to forge a ceasefire.

Reuters

US Senate panel raises ‘concern’ over Egyptian detainee’s health

Senate Foreign Relations Committee urges Egypt to immediately release academic Salah Soltan amid ‘neglect in prison’.

Al Jazeera

Do we need this take on Cleopatra?

Netflix's "Queen Cleopatra" has its moments but do we really need another take on this superstar of history?

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Gaza Strip fighting intensifies on third day despite Egypt ceasefire efforts

Clashes between Israel and militants leave 29 dead so far, with airstrikes targeting homes of Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders

The Guardian - UK

Dive like an Egyptian: How one Red Sea resort is cleaning up its act – and the ocean

Marsa Alam is home to one of the first Eco Dive Centres in the world: Phoebe Smith pays it a visit, along with the area’s other trailblazing initiatives

The Independent UK

Analysis-North Africa backslides toward swirling debt troubles

Tunisia and Egypt are edging closer to major debt crises that could suck in a volatile North Africa region and pose tough choices to wealthy Gulf Arab neighbours, investors and analysts warn.

Reuters

Climate Activists Investigated In The Heritage Crime Over Protest At Barcelona’s Egyptian Museum

The protest was the first of its kind as the group is part of the Extinction Rebellion collective gluing themselves to Las Majas.

Zenger

Israel-Palestine conflict: Fighting ongoing as ceasefire falters

The hostilities amount to the heaviest fighting between the two sides in months.

Al Jazeera

Netflix’s Black Cleopatra docudrama spurs furious Egyptian broadcaster to create rival with light-skinned lead

Egypt’s Al Wathaeqya channel says their documentary will be based on the ‘utmost levels’ of research and accuracy

The Independent UK

Ongoing fighting between Israelis and Palestinians despite Egyptian brokered ceasefire

Palestinian militants fired hundreds of rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Wednesday, while Israel pressed ahead with a series of airstrikes that have killed 21 Palestinians, including three senior militants and at least 10 civilians.

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Queen Cleopatra review – the idea that you need a white actor is utterly insidious

Adele James, who stars in this curious Netflix docudrama about ancient Egypt’s most famous queen is the best thing about it – despite the furore around her race

The Conversation

Cleopatra's skin colour didn't matter in ancient Egypt – her strategic role in world history did

Cleopatra, queen of Egypt in the years 51-30 BC, is back in the news thanks to a controversial docudrama series on Netflix called Queen Cleopatra. Much debate has raged about her ethnicity. The queen was of Greek ancestry. In the Netflix series she’s played by a black actress. The fuss…

Daily Mirror

Three Islamic Jihad leaders killed in Israeli airstrikes along with wives and children

Palestinian officials said eight women and children were among the dead and another 20 people were injured in the explosions which were heard as far away as Rafah, on Gaza's southern border with Egypt

Manchester Evening News

The gruelling 22-hour journey a family will endure to escape a coup in Sudan

The conflict in Sudan broke out on 15th April unexpectedly leaving thousands of citizens around the world trapped without any exit.

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Inflation, IMF austerity and grandiose military plans edge more Egyptians into poverty

Two-thirds of the population are struggling with falling living standards as even the once-thriving middle classes hunt for second jobs and eat less

Reuters

Sudan's well-off stuck in limbo at border town en route to Egypt

After sleeping for a week under a tree in the backyard of a mosque in the Sudanese town of Wadi Halfa, Dalia Hassan is torn over whether she should cross the frontier into Egypt, or wait until her 18-year-old son gets a visa.

The Independent UK

Mohamed Salah sights set on more records after latest Liverpool landmark

The Egypt international wrote his name in the Reds’ history books with his winner against Brentford.

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Liverpool's Mohamed Salah breaks more records with 100th goal for Reds at Anfield

The Egyptian forward gave the Reds a first-half lead against Brentford on Saturday and is now level with Steven Gerrard

The Conversation

Sudan's conflict will have a ripple effect in an unstable region - and across the world

Sudan, Africa’s third largest country by land mass, shares borders with seven countries in an unstable region. This means that Sudan’s current conflict will have economic, social and political ripple effects across a number of countries, including the Central African Republic, Egypt, Libya, Chad, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea.

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HRW: Academic held by Egyptian authorities at risk of death

Human Rights Watch joins 50 other groups to call for release of Egyptian academic Salah Soltan, detained in Egypt.

Reuters

Egyptian ex-MP planning presidential bid says relatives arrested

Egyptian authorities have arrested two male relatives and three friends of former member of parliament Ahmed Eltantawy, he said on Thursday, shortly before his announced return home ahead of an intended presidential election bid.

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