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Sunday 25 October 2020
The elections will be held in two phases, with the first covering 14 provinces today and tomorrow.
Inmates have been on hunger strike for more than six weeks, Amnesty International has said.
Two of the Premier League’s most highly-rated forwards went head-to-head in Cairo on Thursday.
It comes months after a similar explosion killed three tourists in the region.
The fire broke out after a train crashed into a steel barrier, sources said.
Armed security personnel quickly deployed to the site and cordoned off the area.
The tomb belongs to “Wahtye”, a high priest who served during the fifth dynasty reign of King Neferirkare.
The discovery at Saqqara also includes mummies of scarabs, the first ever to be found in the area.
The jihadist had been armed with an assault rifle, 150 rounds of ammunition and a bomb.
Ibrahim Halawa arrived back in Dublin yesterday to a media-heavy welcome.
Ibrahim Halawa isn’t “going away quietly” – and his arrival at Dublin Airport today proves it.
The Dubliner has been speaking to the media at Terminal 1.
The 21-year-old spent more than four years in jail.
Peter Greste – who spent over a year in an Egyptian prison with Halawa – said that it was “wonderful” that he had been released.
The 21-year-old Irish citizen has been in jail in Egypt for over four years.
Halawa (21) was arrested during a demonstration in 2014 in support of Mohamed Morsi who had been ousted from power in a military coup.
The 21-year-old Irishman has been held in Cairo for almost four years.
The next hearing will be on 25 July.
Halawa has been imprisoned in the Egyptian capital for 1,418 days – nearly four years.
Now aged 21, Halawa has spent almost four years in jail.
Burial shafts were found in the area and excavation work “revealed that these shafts led to a number of corridors inside a cachette of mummies”.
The first bombing struck the Mar Girgis church in the city of Tanta north of Cairo, killing 27 people, the health ministry earlier said.
The trial was delayed for the 21st time today.
Halawa faces another trial date – his 20th – tomorrow.
Lynn Boylan says Halawa has been ‘on hunger strikes on and off’ throughout his detention.
The Dubliner has been jailed in an Egyptian prison since August 2013.
He remains in custody without trial.
Ibrahim Halawa’s sister says they were remembering those who had been killed in a massacre.
Halawa has been in prison without trial for almost three-and-a-half years.
The TDs will be discussing the young man’s incarceration when they arrive tomorrow.
His trial has been rescheduled for 17 January 2017.
Ibrahim Halawa has been awaiting trial in an Egyptian jail for three years.
In the letter, Halawa imagines that today could be his graduation day.
It could prove vital in establishing the cause of the crash last month.
Search teams are still looking for the black box as the cause of the crash is still unknown.
Sources close to the investigation have denied that evidence of explosives has been found among the crash debris.
Jihadists, including Islamic State group militants, have killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers in attacks.
Soha Gendi told RTÉ that he government has visited him regularly.
President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi was travelling to the opening of a social housing project.
He was last seen when he left his home to meet a friend.
WE’RE LESS THAN a week out from the scariest night of the year.
Halloween will look somewhat different this year but there’s nothing stopping us breaking out the box of decorations, throwing on a witch’s hat and doing up the outside of the house.
Cobwebs, ghouls and goblins, a scary pumpkin, there’s plenty of inspiration around at the moment as more and more people gear up for the 31st.
This morning, we want to know: Have you decorated your house for Halloween?
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Richard Nairns details some of what he discovered when he moved to Ned’s Wood in Co Wicklow.
Some sun, a shower in spots in the p.m.
Max: 11 °C
Min: 7 °C
Winds subsiding with a couple of showers
Max: 12 °C
Min: 5 °C
Clouds breaking, rain ending; breezy
Max: 11 °C
Min: 6 °C
