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15 hours 24 min ago - Egypt

Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros, Mike Hanna and Rawya Rageh report  on the latest  from Egypt's presidential election.

Tags Cairo, Egypt election, suez
1 day 17 hours ago - Suez

An update from our correspondent:

RawyaRagehOverall turnout in #Suez still low, estimated at just 10% so far. Some say it'll increase when workers finish work, sun goes down #EgyptWed May 23 12:14:10 2012
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1 day 19 hours ago - Suez

A tweet from our correspondent in Suez:

RawyaRagehWomen turning out in larger numbers than men in #Suez so far #Egypt #EgyPresElex #EgyPresidentWed May 23 09:52:36 2012
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1 day 21 hours ago - Suez

Al Jazeera's Adam Makary tweets from the Red Sea port city of Suez:

adamakaryAnother Aboul Fotouh supporter has been kicked out of a polling station in #Suez for campaigning at Salah Salem school. #Egypt #EgyElexWed May 23 08:13:34 2012

adamakary#Suez: Three Noor party members caught campaigning for Aboul Fotouh, now being detained inside Malek El Faysal school. #EgyElex #EgyptWed May 23 07:34:20 2012
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2 weeks 6 days ago - Egypt

Saudi King Abdullah ordered on Friday the return of the kingdom's ambassador to Egypt and the reopening of the mission after it was shut last week in the wake of angry protests, the state news agency said.

The king "instructed the kingdom's ambassador to Cairo to resume his post on Sunday, and ordered the reopening of the embassy and the consulates in Alexandria and Suez," state news reported, quoting an unnamed official.

The decision was announced after the monarch received a top ranking Egyptian delegation, which arrived in the kingdom Thursday on a mission to defuse tension.

Riyadh on Saturday recalled its ambassador after angry protests outside the Saudi embassy in Cairo over the arrest of an Egyptian human rights lawyer in the Gulf kingdom which claimed he was in possession of drugs.

King Abdullah told the delegation that the recent deterioration in relations was "painful to every honest Saudi and Egyptian citizen," adding that the kingdom's decision to shut its mission "was only to protect its staff".

He welcomed the visit by the large delegation, saying it was a source of "joy", adding that with "such an honourable position I can only say that we shall not allow this passing crisis to last long."

The delegation is headed by parliament speaker Saad al-Katatni and the head of the consultative council Ahmed Fahmi. [AFP]

Tags Alexandria, Cairo, King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia, suez
5 weeks 5 days ago - Egypt

An explosion in the city of Suez has caused a massive fire to break out at an oil company depot.

"A container of oil exploded and was followed by series of powerful explosions, so far led to the deaths of one of the
workers and four others have been seriously injured," a security source told the Reuters news agency.

Central security forces and army personnel cordoned-off the area where the explosion occured, and emergency services were reporatedly able to bring the fire under control about an hour ago.

[Reuters]

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5 weeks 5 days ago - Suez

Dark smoke was rising over the Egyptian city of Suez on Saturday after an explosion at the Nasr Oil Company.

Army personell cordoned off the area and emergency vehicles rushed to the scene.

Fire crews extinguished the blaze after about one hour.

A security source said one worker died and four other were seriously injured in the explosion.


[Source:Reuters]

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15 weeks 5 days ago - Egypt
In Egypt, at least 12 people have been killed in clashes between police and protesters.

Demonstrators are blaming security forces for failing to prevent Wednesday's football riot which killed more than 70 people in Port Said.

Read our news story for more detail and context: Deaths mount on third day of Egypt clashes

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Protester runs to kick teargas canister during clashes with riot police near interior ministry in Cairo [AFP]
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15 weeks 6 days ago - Egypt

The death toll in the Suez governate protests over security forces' inability to prevent a deadly football riot on Wednesday has now risen to four.

Along with three confirmed dead in Cairo, the total current death count in protests demanding retribution for those killed in the worst football violence Egypt has ever seen now stands at seven.

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15 weeks 6 days ago - Egypt
At least two people have been shot and killed in the Egyptian city of Suez, as police used live rounds to hold back crowds during a protest over security forces' failure to prevent a deadly football riot.

Two protesters were killed in Cairo just feet away from the Interior Ministry, as police in Cairo set off salvos of tear gas and fired birdshot, and one soldier was killed on Friday when a riot police truck backed into him.

Witnesses in Suez said fighting broke out at a local police station in the northeastern city in the early hours of Friday, hours after the two protesters were killed.
"We received two corpses of protesters shot dead by live ammunition," a doctor at a mortuary where the bodies were kept told the Reuters news agency.
Earlier, hundreds of people were injured in the capital, Cairo, as police clashed with protesters who accused the ruling military council of mismanaging the country. 

The protesters had taken to the streets in the thousands on Thursday to demand retribution for the deaths of 72 people killed a day earlier during post-football violence in the city of Port Said - violence that most blamed on police inaction.

According to the state health ministry, more than 1,700 people were wounded in the Cairo clashes.

Read our news story for more detail and context: Deadly clashes in Egypt over football riots 

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