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In this April 2, 2008, file photo, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak looks attends a meeting at the Presidential palace, in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt state TV said Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. that the country's former President Hosni Mubarak, ousted in the 2011 uprising, has died at 91. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Hosni Mubarak, former Egyptian president pushed aside in 2011 Arab Spring, has died at age 91

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 2, 2008 file photo, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak looks attends a meeting at the Presidential palace, in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt state TV said Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. that the country's former President Hosni Mubarak, ousted in the 2011 uprising, has died at 91. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Mubarak, Egypt’s autocrat ousted in uprising, dies at 91

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

In this undated photo provided by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a local Non-Governmental Organization, Egyptian activist and researcher Patrick George Zaki, poses for a photograph, in Egypt. A local rights group says Egyptian officials have transferred Zaki who was arrested on arrival at Cairo's airport to a &quot;less favorable&quot; detention facility. The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights said Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020 that the 28-year-old was transferred just as his parents showed up for visiting hours. (Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights via AP)

Egypt extends detention of activist who criticized president

By Associated Press - Associated Press

In this Feb. 14, 2020 photo, Egyptian Vets for Animal Care, the country's first spay and neuter program, mark a puppy with red paint after giving it a rabies shot, in Cairo, Egypt. After centuries of stigma, the street dogs of Egypt are finding popular acceptance. Grassroots support like sterilization, medical care and shelter has surged in defiance of a government extermination policy. For decades, Cairo dealt with its stray animal problem by leaving poison in the streets. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Egypt’s once-reviled street dogs get chance at a better life

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

In this undated photo provided by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a local Non-Governmental Organization, Egyptian activist and researcher Patrick George Zaki, poses for a photograph, in Egypt. A local rights group says Egyptian officials have transferred Zaki who was arrested on arrival at Cairo's airport to a &quot;less favorable&quot; detention facility. The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights said Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020 that the 28-year-old was transferred just as his parents showed up for visiting hours. (Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights via AP)

Egypt’s top prosecutor denies activist was tortured

By Associated Press - Associated Press

In this undated photo provided by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a local Non-Governmental Organization, Egyptian activist and researcher Patrick George Zaki, poses for a photograph, in Egypt. A local rights group says Egyptian officials have transferred Zaki who was arrested on arrival at Cairo's airport to a &quot;less favorable&quot; detention facility. The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights said Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020 that the 28-year-old was transferred just as his parents showed up for visiting hours. (Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights via AP)

Egypt upholds detention of student critical of el-Sissi

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In this undated photo provided by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a local Non-Governmental Organization, Egyptian activist and researcher Patrick George Zaki, poses for a photograph, in Egypt. A local rights group says Egyptian officials have transferred Zaki who was arrested on arrival at Cairo's airport to a &quot;less favorable&quot; detention facility. The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights said Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020 that the 28-year-old was transferred just as his parents showed up for visiting hours. (Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights via AP)

Rights group: Jailed Egyptian activist’s conditions worsen

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FILE - In this July 3, 2019 file photo, debris covers the ground and an emergency vehicle after an airstrike at a detention center in Tajoura, east of Tripoli in Libya. The United Nations revealed on Monday, Jan. 27, 2020 new details about an airstrike that smashed into a migrant detention center in Libya, killing at least 50 people. The July attack, which ranked among the deadliest assaults on civilians since the start of Libya’s civil war, sparked international condemnation and accusations of war crimes. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed, File)

UN envoy hopes Libya talks will stem influx of foreign arms

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Protesters post a placard with the colors of the Palestinian flags and Arabic that reads &quot;Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Palestine,&quot; at a barbed wire surrounding the Israeli separation wall and the Israeli settlement of Mod'in Ilit, background, during a protest against Israel and the Untied States in the West Bank village of Bil'in, near Ramallah, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Mahmoud Abbas threatens to cut security ties with Israel, U.S.

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2019 file photo, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Egypt’s president has called for “decisive” and “collective” action against countries supporting terrorism.&quot; His comments are an apparent reference to Turkey and Qatar, who back the Muslim Brotherhood group, which is outlawed by the Egyptian government. Addressing a two-day forum on peace in Africa in the southern city of Aswan, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi says achieving sustainable development in Africa is needed, along with efforts to fight militant groups.(AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

El-Sissi dubs Egypt ‘oasis of stability’ amid clampdown

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In this Nov. 27, 2019 photo, Patrice Gaudensio, a refugee artist from South Sudan poses for a portrait during an exhibition titled &quot;Beyond Borders,&quot; featuring work by refugee artists, at Art Cafe in Cairo, Egypt. Gaudensio said he and his wife have experienced racism and discrimination several times in Cairo streets. Hundreds of thousands of sub-Saharan African migrants call Cairo their temporary home. Many have fled deadly violence or dire poverty at home only to face racist harassment, violence and rape in the megacity of some 20 million people. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Fleeing war, poverty, African migrants face racism in Egypt

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

FILE -- In this Feb. 10, 2011 file photo, a flag is waved by anti-government protesters as they demonstrate in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's recent decision to transport ancient Pharaonic artifacts to Tahriri Square, the epicenter of Egypt's so-called Arab Spring uprising in 2011, has fueled fresh controversy over the government's handling of its archaeological heritage. Archaeologists and heritage experts fear vehicle exhaust will damage the ram-headed sphinxes and an obelisk, currently en route to their new home in Tahrir Square. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill, File)

Egypt draws ire with artifacts’ move to busy Tahrir Square

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

In this Nov. 19, 2019 photo, a driver tries to maneuver his tuk-tuk in a narrow alleyway of a slum in Cairo, Egypt. Motorized rickshaws known as tuk-tuks have ruled the streets of Cairo’s slums for the past two decades hauling millions of Egyptians home every day. Now the government is taking its most ambitious stand yet against the polluting three-wheeled vehicles: to modernize the neglected transport system, it plans to replace tuk-tuks with clean-running minivans. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Egyptian government seeks to do away with popular tuk-tuks

By ISABEL DEBRE and MOHAMED SALAH - Associated Press

Firefighters deploy after a factory hit by a rocket caught fire in Sderot, southern Israel , Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 12m 2019. Israel has killed a senior Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza in a rare targeted killing that threatened to unleash a fierce round of cross-border violence with Palestinian militants. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israel vows to keep hitting militants as 18 killed in Gaza

By Fares Akram and Aron Heller - Associated Press

Building site machines stand on the construction site of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in Guba in the North West of Ethiopia, 24 November 2017. The dam is currently being built on the Blue Nile and is going to be the biggest dam in Africa. However, the construction leads to tensions, especially with Egypt that worries about its share in Nile water. Photo by: Gioia Forster/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images

Steven Mnuchin mediated talks see Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam breakthrough

By Jacob Wirtschafter - Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 9, 2019 file photo, President Donald Trump meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. El-Sissi thanked Trump late Monday, Nov. 4, for his &quot;generous concern&quot; for helping revive Egypt's deadlocked dispute with Ethiopia over its construction of a massive upstream Nile dam. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Egypt lawmaker says parliament could sack him for criticism

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019 photo, vehicles stop in a traffic jam due to flood waters caused by heavy rains in Cairo, Egypt. Many people, including two children, were killed in Egypt's Nile Delta region, authorities said Wednesday after heavy rains pummeled Cairo and other parts of the country the previous day, causing massive traffic jams and flooding many key roads. (AP Photo/Tarek Wagih)

Death toll from heavy rains, flooding in Egypt rises to 11

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In this Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019 photo, vehicles stop in a traffic jam due to flood waters caused by heavy rains in Cairo, Egypt. Many people, including two children, were killed in Egypt's Nile Delta region, authorities said Wednesday after heavy rains pummeled Cairo and other parts of the country the previous day, causing massive traffic jams and flooding many key roads. (AP Photo/Tarek Wagih)

In Egypt, 8 dead after chaotic day of heavy rains, flooding

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Protesters chant slogans against the regime in Cairo, Egypt, early Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019. Dozens of people held a rare protest in Cairo during which they called on Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to quit. Security forces dispersed the protesters and no casualties were reported. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Egypt deports 2 foreign nationals arrested amid protests

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

Protesters chant slogans against the regime in Cairo, Egypt, early Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019. Dozens of people held a rare protest in Cairo during which they called on Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to quit. Security forces dispersed the protesters and no casualties were reported. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Egypt releases 3 foreigners arrested over protests

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press