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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Italy: Hearing delayed in slaying case against Egyptians

FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2013 file photo, Egyptian security forces lift the lifeless body of Giza Police Gen. Nabil Farrag who was killed after unidentified militants opened fire on security forces deployed in the town of Kerdasa, close to the pyramids at Giza, Egypt. On Monday, April 26, 2021, executed nine men convicted of murder in the attack on a police station in 2013, security officials and a rights lawyer said. The assault resulted in the deaths of 15 people, including 11 police. (AP Photo/Ahmed Ramadan, File)

Egypt officials: 9 men executed for 2013 attack on police

Egypt’s national soccer team coach positive for coronavirus

Russia to resume flights to Egypt after 6-year hiatus

FILE - In this Sunday, April 18, 2021 file photo, people gather at the site where a passenger train derailed killing at least 11 people and injuring at least 98 others, near Banha, Qalyubia province, Egypt. Egypt’s transportation minister on Tuesday said he sacked the country’s top railway official, following three train accidents in less than a month that left at least 29 people dead and over 300 injured. (AP Photo/Tarek Wagih, File)

Egypt fires top railway official after deadly train crashes

FILE - In this May 2, 2019 file photo, Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly, speaks during the opening session of the Arab Economic Forum in Beirut, Lebanon. Madbouly arrived Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Tripoli along with 11 members of his Cabinet and businessmen to discuss ties and trade with the country’s newly-appointed government. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

Egypt’s premier visits Libya to discuss trade, other ties

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FILE - This April 1, 2016 file photo shows one of Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun's golden sarcophagus displayed at his tomb in a glass case at the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. A nearly decade-long project to better protect and preserve Egypt's legendary tomb of King Tut is nearing completion. The Getty Conservation Institute of Los Angeles said Tuesday, March 27, 2018, the project has added a filtration system to keep out dust and humidity and a barrier to keep visitors from getting too close to the tomb's wall paintings. The effort was launched in 2009 by the institution, known worldwide for its conservation work, in collaboration with Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil,File)

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In April, Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s best-known archaeologist, announced the discovery of a 3,000-year-old lost city in southern Luxor, complete with mud brick houses, artifacts and tools from pharaonic times.

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CAIRO - Egypt says it will impose new restrictive measures amid a spike in coronavirus cases in the Arab world’s most populous country.

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