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Farmland inundated with saltwater, gradually eats away the soil in the Mediterranean town of Mutubes, in Kafr el-Sheikh province, Egypt, Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. The impact of climate change has long been obvious to farmers, in the creeping salt that eats away roots and cakes their fields, turning them barren. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Climate change and rising seas threaten Egypt’s breadbasket

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

FILE - Egyptian Central Bank Governor Tarek Amer speaks during a press conference at the Central Bank of Egypt in Cairo, Nov. 3, 2016. Amer resigned as the country has struggled to address its financial woes. According to a Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022 statement from President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi's office, el-Sissi accepted the resignation and named him a presidential adviser. The brief statement offered no reason for Amer’s resignation and no replacement was immediately named. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Egypt’s central bank governor resigns as economic woes mount

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Emergency personnel work at the site of a fire at the Abu Sefein church that has killed over 40 people and injured at least 14 others, in the densely populated neighborhood of Imbaba, Cairo Egypt, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022. The church said the fire broke out while a service was underway. The cause of the blaze was not immediately known but a Police said an initial investigation blamed an electrical short-circuit. (AP Photo/Mohamed Salah)

Officials: Fire at Coptic church in Cairo kills 41, hurts 14

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

In this 1998 file photo made available on March 19, 2004, Ayman al-Zawahri poses for a photograph in Khost, Afghanistan. Al-Zawahri, the top al-Qaida leader, was killed by the U.S. over the weekend in Afghanistan. President Joe Biden is scheduled to speak about the operation on Monday night, Aug. 1, 2022, from the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Mazhar Ali Khan, File)

Al-Zawahri’s path went from Cairo clinic to top of al-Qaida

By Lee Keath - Associated Press

Geese raised by Ikhlas Helmy stand next to her houseboat in Cairo, Egypt on June 27, 2022. A government push to remove the string of houseboats from Cairo’s Nile banks has dwindled their numbers from a several dozen to just a handful. Helmy stands to evicted, and the boat moved or demolished. The tradition of living on the Nile River dates back to the 1800s, and the removal of the boats has drawn criticism in Egypt. The government says it plans to develop the waterfront. (AP Photo/Tarek Wagih)

Cairo’s historic Nile River houseboats removed in govt push

By Ahmed Hatem and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Painted coffins with well-preserved mummies inside, dating back to the Late Period of ancient Egypt around 500 B.C, are displayed at a makeshift exhibit at the feet of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Egypt displays trove of newly discovered ancient artifacts

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This March 30, 2020 photo, shows the empty Giza Pyramids on lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak in Egypt. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Egypt arrests 13 teenage boys for harassing women tourists

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FILE - In this Tuesday, April 14, 2020 file photo, people crowd a street a few hours ahead of curfew in Cairo, Egypt. The world’s economy is forecast to grow around 3.6% this year, but Arab oil exporters are seeing a windfall from high energy prices that will buoy their economies and replenish their financial reserves this year and next. A report released Wednesday, April 27, 2022, by the International Monetary Fund says those hard-hit in the Mideast are oil importers and countries like Egypt that also rely heavily on food imports from the Black Sea region, where Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has impacted exports like sunflower oil, barley and wheat worldwide. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

IMF sees bumper year for Arab oil producers, risk for others

By Aya Batrawy - Associated Press

Farmer Philippe Dutertre walks to toward his cows in a meadow in Chemire-Le-Gaudin, western France, Friday, March 18, 2022. Farmers worldwide are weighing whether to change their planting patterns and grow more wheat this spring as Russia's war in Ukraine has choked off or thrown into question grain supplies from a region known as “the breadbasket of the world.” Dutertre hasn't decided whether to expand his wheat patch given soaring energy and electricity costs. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Ukraine war imperils wheat, but farmers in no rush to pivot

By and ROB GILLIES Aya Bartawy and Steve Karnowski and Rob Gillies - Associated Press

Madinah Javed smiles during an interview on her role in encouraging female reciters of the Quran, in a prayer room at the American Islamic College Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, in Chicago. Javed, who grew up in Scotland and now lives in Chicago, has turned to social media to highlight existing #FemaleReciters like herself while inspiring more to share recitations. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Amid debate, women lift their voices with Muslim sacred text

By Mariam Fam of The Associated Press and Aysha Khan of Religion News Service - Associated Press

A general vuew of Gaza City is seen Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021. Gaza’s Hamas rulers collect millions of dollars a month in taxes and customs at a crossing on the Egyptian border – providing a valuable source of income that helps it sustain a government and powerful armed wing. After surviving four wars and a nearly 15-year blockade, Hamas has become more resilient and Israel has been forced to accept that its sworn enemy is here to stay. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

Defiant in war and isolation, Hamas plays long game in Gaza

By Joseph Krauss and Fares Akram - Associated Press

Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla visit the Al-Azhar Mosque, the oldest Sunni institution in the Muslim world with Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque Ahmed al-Tayeb, left, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. The visit is part of the royal couple’s first tour since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Mohamed El-Shahed)

Britain’s Prince Charles in Cairo, first visit since 2006

By Noha Elhennawy - Associated Press

In this May 29, 2010, photo, people from a minority Muslim Ahmadi community stand guard as others prepare to bury the victims of attack by Islamic militants, in Rubwah, some 150 kilometers (93 miles) northwest from Lahore Pakistan. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, adopted 55-year-old Ramazan Bibi, jailed on blasphemy charges in Pakistan, as a prisoner of conscience. According to a December report by the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedoms, Pakistan recorded the most cases of blasphemy in the world even though 84 countries have criminal blasphemy laws on their books. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) **FILE**

Non-Sunni Muslims face persecution in Africa, U.S. report says

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

In this April 24, 2021, file photo, people visit the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Old Cairo. As some European countries reopen to international tourists, Egypt has already been trying for months to attract them to its archaeological sites and museums. Officials are betting that the new ancient discoveries will set it apart on the mid- and post-pandemic tourism market. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Egypt bets on ancient finds to pull tourism out of pandemic

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2013 file photo, Egypt's Pope Tawadros II visits al-Muharraq Monastery, in Assiut province, Egypt. On Sunday, May 9, 2021, Egyptian officials said authorities have executed a defrocked monk convicted of the 2018 killing of Bishop Epiphanius, an abbot in a desert monastery north of Cairo. The abbot’s killing has exposed a side of the church that few in Egypt — Muslim or Christian — knew existed, including the growing power and independence of monks in remote monasteries who appear to be at odds with Pope Tawadros II and the church’s central leadership. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

Egypt executes defrocked monk convicted of abbot’s killing

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 14, 2021, file photo, medical workers tend to coronavirus patients in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at Kenyatta National Hospital, in Nairobi, Kenya. Amid concerns over India, Kenya, which is coming down from a recent peak in cases, halted flights with the country for two weeks, while Nigeria suspended flights with India, Brazil and Turkey, fearing new virus strains could come in as it tries to bring down cases, particularly in Lagos, home to some 20 million people. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

India’s disaster hangs over countries facing COVID-19 surges

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Turkish Foreign Ministry Deputy Sedat Onal, seated right, meets with Hamdi Sanad Loza, Egyptian deputy foreign minister along with their delegations, at the foreign ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Egypt, Turkey officials meet for talks to reset frayed ties

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman, left, meets with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry at the foreign ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

US envoy in Egypt for talks on Ethiopia’s dam dispute

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

FILE- In this Tuesday, June 18, 2019, file photo, a Dassault Rafale fighter jet performs its demonstration flight at Paris Air Show, in Le Bourget, north east of Paris, France. Egypt is buying another 30 Rafale fighter jets from France, building up its fleet of the advanced warplane to 54, second only to the French Air Force. Both countries confirmed the deal separately on Tuesday. The Egyptian military said the purchase would be financed with a 10-year French loan. The value of the deal wasn't given. (AP Photo/ Francois Mori, File)

Rights critics condemn French sale to Egypt of 30 more jets

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Italy: Hearing delayed in slaying case against Egyptians

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