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Four Injured in Egypt Train Crash

A train crashed and derailed south of Cairo on Tuesday, leaving four people injured, the Egyptian health ministry said.

The train, heading for the town of Sohag 500 kilometers (300 miles) south of the capital, crashed near Badrashin station near Cairo, a security source said. Five of its 15 carriages overturned.

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Prosecutor Orders Mubarak Back to Jail after Health Improves

Egypt's prosecutor general on Monday ordered convicted former strongman Hosni Mubarak back to prison nearly a month after he was moved to a military hospital in Cairo after reportedly suffering a stroke.

Abdel Meguid Mahmoud "has issued an order to transfer former president Hosni Mubarak from the Maadi Armed Forces Hospital to Tora prison hospital after an improvement in his health," his office said in a statement.

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Egypt Building Collapse Death Toll Rises to 19

The death toll in a building collapse in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria has reached to 19, the health ministry said on Monday, adding that it was still searching for survivors.

"Nineteen bodies have been retrieved from under the rubble of the collapsed building," the health ministry said.

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'Monica, Monica' Chants Taunt Clinton in Egypt

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was taunted by chants of "Monica, Monica" by tomato-throwing demonstrators as she visited the Egyptian port city of Alexandria on Sunday.

The chants, referring to the Monica Lewinsky scandal when her husband, Bill Clinton, was president, were heard outside the U.S. consulate as she visited for its reopening.

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10 Dead in Egypt Building Collapse

Egypt's Health Ministry said Sunday that rescue services had retrieved 10 bodies from under the rubble of an 11-storey building that collapsed a day earlier in the coastal city of Alexandria.

"Ten bodies have been found under the rubble of the collapsed building in Alexandria," the Health Ministry said, adding that the search for survivors was continuing. Five people were found alive on Sunday, it said.

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Building Collapses in Egypt, 16 People Hurt

An eleven-storey building collapsed in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria on Saturday, destroying three neighboring homes and injuring at least 16 people, police said.

Witnesses said the building housed four families and a bakery, but could not give an overall number of tenants.

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Clinton Reaffirms U.S. Support for Egypt Democratic Transition

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday reaffirmed Washington's "strong" support for Egypt's democratic transition, after talks with newly-elected President Mohammed Morsi.

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Egypt Bedouin Kidnap Two U.S. Tourists

Bedouin men kidnapped two U.S. tourists and their guide in Egypt's lawless Sinai on Friday, police said, adding that they were demanding the release of a jailed tribesman in exchange for the hostages.

The Bedouin captured the American man and woman in the middle of the peninsula, where they were in a car with their Egyptian guide, almost a month after tribesmen briefly kidnapped a tourist from Singapore.

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Israeli Forces Kill 'Unarmed Gazan' on Egypt Border

Israeli border police killed a man and wounded another when the two tried to cross the Egyptian border into Israel, the army said on Friday, with a security source saying the two were unarmed Gazans.

"Overnight, Israeli border police identified two suspects infiltrating Israel through the Israel-Egypt border," an army spokesman said.

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Morsi, Saudi King Abdullah Hold ‘Fruitful’ Talks on Regional Stability

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi said he and Saudi's King Abdullah held "fruitful" talks focused on regional stability, SPA news agency said Thursday after a late night meeting between the two leaders.

Our discussions were "fruitful and constructive and in the interest of Egypt, of Saudi Arabia and of the people of the region," Morsi told reporters in Saudi's southern port city of Jeddah at the end of Wednesday night's meeting.

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