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Virus means no birthday bash as Georgia town turns 150

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Basma Mostafa, a journalist for al-Manassa news website poses for a photo at a friend's apartment, in Cairo, Egypt, July 11, 2020. Egyptian authorities detained Mostafa after she traveled to the southern city of Luxor on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020, to cover the alleged killing of a man during a police raid last week, her employer and family said Sunday. Rights lawyer Karim Abdel-Rady, who is also her husband, said his wife, the 30-year-old mother of two, appeared Sunday at the headquarters of Egypt's state security prosecution in the capital, Cairo. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Egypt outlet says reporter detained while covering unrest

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Egyptian police disperse rare, small protests; 10 arrested

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

One of the five bedrooms in historic Magnolia Manor is seen in Cairo, Ill., on July 30, 2020. (Byron Hetzler/The Southern Illinoisan via AP)

A look at the story of Cairo, Illinois’ Magnolia Manor

By MOLLY PARKER - Associated Press

Ohio River bridge reopens between Kentucky, Illinois

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A tomb from the early 20th Century stands partially demolished amid construction of a new highway through the Northern Cemetery in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, July 26, 2020. Dozens of graves have been partially or fully destroyed as the government builds two large expressways through the City of the Dead, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Authorities say no registered monuments have been harmed, but preservationists have raised alarm that graves of historical value are being lost and that the multilane highways tear apart the fabric of a historic necropolis that has remained intact for centuries.(AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Highways raise alarm in Cairo’s historic City of the Dead

By LEE KEATH - Associated Press

Cairo’s first Black librarian celebrated as she turns 100

By MOLLY PARKER - Associated Press

This combination image made from satellite images taken on Friday, June 26, 2020, above, and Sunday, July 12, 2020, below, shows the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile river in the Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia. New satellite imagery shows the reservoir behind Ethiopia's disputed hydroelectric dam beginning to fill, but an analyst says it's likely due to seasonal rains instead of government action. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

Ethiopia denies reports government has started filling dam

By ELIAS MESERET - Associated Press

In this March 29, 2020, file photo, Egyptian security forces cordon off roads during curfew hours as prevention measures due to the coronavirus outbreak, in Cairo, Egypt. Coronavirus infections are surging in the country of 100 million, threatening to overwhelm Egyptian hospitals. Egypt has the highest death toll in the Arab world. Yet even as authorities fight the swelling outbreak, they have also tried to stifle nearly all criticism about the government’s handling of the health crisis. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Egypt arrests doctors, silences critics over virus outbreak

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In this March 29, 2020, file photo, Egyptian security forces cordon off roads during curfew hours as prevention measures due to the coronavirus outbreak, in Cairo, Egypt. Coronavirus infections are surging in the country of 100 million, threatening to overwhelm Egyptian hospitals. Egypt has the highest death toll in the Arab world. Yet even as authorities fight the swelling outbreak, they have also tried to stifle nearly all criticism about the government’s handling of the health crisis. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Egypt arrests doctors, silences critics over virus outbreak

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Cairo march highlights past heartland civil rights activism

By MOLLY PARKER - Associated Press

Cairo film festival’s art director resigns amid controversy

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

In this Sept. 5, 2019, file photo, supporters of southern separatists gather with the flags of south Yemen and the United Arab Emirates during a rally to show support for the UAE amid a standoff with the internationally recognized government, in Aden, Yemen. (AP Photo/Wail al-Qubaty, File)

Yemen’s south in turmoil after separatists’ self-rule bid

By Maggie Michael - Associated Press

Lawyers: Egypt filmmaker who mocked president dies in prison

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Shopkeepers wearing protective face masks and gloves to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus sit in their shop at the Qazvin old traditional bazaar some 93 miles (150 kilometers) northwest of the capital Tehran Iran, Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Iran is the COVID-19 hardest-hit country in the Mideast and one of the world's worst outbreaks of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran, like wider Mideast, relies on deliveries amid pandemic

By AMIR VAHDAT - Associated Press

In this Sunday, April 19, 2020, file photo, people attend evening prayers while maintaining a level of social distancing to help avoid the spread of the coronavirus, at a mosque in Karachi, Pakistan. As Ramadan begins with the new moon later this week, Muslims all around the world are trying to work out how to maintain the many cherished rituals of Islam’s holiest month. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan, File)

Muslims try to keep Ramadan spirit amid virus restrictions

By Samy Magdy and Lee Keathy - Associated Press

This March 25, 2020 photo, shows the empty Sphinx complex of the Giza Pyramids in Egypt. &quot;Everything collapsed in a flash,&quot; said Sayed el-Gabri, a souvenir vendor, as he stared at the almost empty complex of Egypt's famed Giza Pyramids. It was not unexpected, but the evaporation of the stream of visitors to the ancient site was still a shock to el-Gabri and other tourism workers. He saw it coming, as the government stepped up its measures to slow the new coronavirus' spread, culminating in a ban on all international flights in and out of the country. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

AP PHOTOS: Virus threatening Egypt’s fragile economy

By SAMY MAGDY and NARIMAN EL-MOFTY - Associated Press

A man wears makeshift rain gear as he navigates a flooded road after heavy rains in the Zamalek district of Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, March 12, 2020. Thunderstorms packing heavy rains and lightning caused widespread flooding in Egypt on Thursday, killing several people and causing authorities to shut down schools and an airport, officials said. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Death toll at 21 as Egypt storms, flooding enter 2nd day

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Visitors and exhibitors wear masks at the Arab Health Exhibition in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday confirmed the first cases in the Mideast of the new Chinese virus that causes flu-like symptoms, saying doctors now were treating a family that had just come from a city at the epicenter of the outbreak. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Egypt says cruise ship quarantined over new virus cluster

By MAGGIE MICHAEL and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

The body of former President Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted from power in the 2011 Arab Spring uprising, is brought to the Tantawi Mosque in eastern Cairo, Egypt for his funeral service, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Egypt is holding a full-honors military funeral for the 91-year-old Mubarak who died on Tuesday at a Cairo military hospital from heart and kidney complications. (AP Photo/Hamada Elrasam)

Egypt holds full-honors military funeral for Hosni Mubarak

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press