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- Mariam Habeib, center, who lost six relatives in a fire at the Abu Sefein Coptic Christian Orthodox Church that killed 41 people during a Sunday service, receives condolences outside her house in the neighborhood of Imbaba, one of Egypt’s most densely populated, in Giza, Egypt, Aug. 16, 2022. For Habeib, the grief is never ending: She lost her older sister, two nieces and a niece's three young children. The tragedy left many families devastated, striking a Christian community that is one of the world’s oldest. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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Family struck by grief after it loses 6 in Egypt church fire
By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press
Tue,08/23/22-1:12AM , 285 Reads
IMBABA, Egypt (AP) — For Mariam Habeib, the grief seems never ending: She lost her older sister, two nieces and a niece's three young children in an intense fire that engulfed a church in Egypt's capital during a recent service and k
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- Kahlan, a 12-year-old former child soldier, demonstrates how to use a weapon, at a camp for displaced persons where he took shelter with his family, in Marib, Yemen, July 27, 2018. emen’s Houthi rebels continue to recruit children into their military ranks to fight in the country’s civil war, despite an agreement with the U.N. in April 2022, to halt the practice. Two Houthi officials acknowledged to the Associated Press that the rebels have recruited several hundred children, some as young as 10, in the past two months. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)
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In Yemen, child soldiering continues despite Houthi promise
By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press
Thu,06/16/22-1:06AM , 762 Reads
CAIRO (AP) — Yemen's Houthi rebels are still recruiting children into their military ranks to fight in the country’s grinding civil war, despite an agreement with the United Nations in April to halt the practice, Houthi officials, aid workers and residents told The Associated Press.
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- Libyans celebrate February Revolution Day in Martyrs' Square in Tripoli, Libya, Feb. 18, 2022. Two separate governments are once again vying for power in Libya. It's the latest setback, reversing tentative steps toward unity in the past year, including promised elections that never materialized. Clashes in the country's capital of Tripoli last month underscored the fragility of Libya's relative peace that has prevailed for more than a year. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad, File)
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Divided again, Libya slides back toward violence, chaos
By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press
Thu,06/02/22-2:06AM , 531 Reads
CAIRO (AP) — For many Libyans, clashes that erupted in the capital of Tripoli last month were all too familiar — a deja vu of street fighting, reverberating gunfire and people cowering inside their homes. A video circulated online on the day, showing a man shouting from a mosque loudspeaker “Enough war, we want our young generation!"
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- This undated photo provided by the Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Ministry on Monday, April 25, 2022, shows archeologists working in the ruins of a temple for Zeus-Kasios, the ancient Greek god, at the Tell el-Farma archaeological site in the northwestern corner of the Sinai Peninsula. Tell el-Farma, also known by its ancient name Pelusium, dates back to the late Pharaonic period and was also used during Greco-Roman and Byzantine times. (Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Ministry via AP)
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Egypt: Ruins of ancient temple for Zeus unearthed in Sinai
By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press
Mon,04/25/22-11:45AM , 560 Reads
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian archaeologists unearthed the ruins of a temple for the ancient Greek god Zeus in the Sinai Peninsula, antiquities authorities said Monday.

The Tourism and Antiquities Ministry said in a statement the temple ruins were found in the Tell el-Farma archaeological site in northwestern Sinai.
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