Kenya Official: Don’t Pay Pirates for Hijacked Ships Nov 22, 2008
Nov. 20: Locals sit on the banks of the Suez canal as a Suez Canal Authority pilot boat passes by in Ismailia, Egypt. Nov. 20: Locals sit on the banks of the Suez canal as a Suez Canal Authority pilot boat passes by in Ismailia, Egypt. (Fox News)
Palestine to play first match in home stadium Oct 18, 2008
It has played home games in the last three World Cup qualifying competitions in Doha, Qatar, and used a training camp at Ismailia in Egypt. Travel for away games also has been complicated. (MSNBC -- Sports)
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Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 10/03/08 08:46:36 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 75% Barometer: 29. (Florida Today)
Weather: Partly cloudy, afternoon storms likely Jul 30, 2008
Melbourne, FL 32940 Last Updated: 07/30/08 08:45:41 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 97% Barometer: 30. (Florida Today)
Coach Van De Walle and Team USA Bring Home Bronze May 4, 2008
ISMAILIA, Egypt - BGSU volleyball Head Coach journaled her final days in Egypt as the USA Natioanl Sittting Team won the bronze medal at the WOVD Intercontinental Cup ... It rained all the way back to Ismailia. (Bgsufalcons.com)
Egypt talks with Hamas, Islamic Jihad over truce Mar 27, 2008
ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt held a new round of talks with Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Thursday as part of efforts to strike a truce between the Palestinian militant groups and Israel, Egyptian sources close to the talks said. ADVERTISEMENT. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Egypt releases 33 Hamas members Mar 24, 2008
ISMAILIA - Egypt released 33 members of Hamas who had been detained after Palestinian militants breached the border in January, security sources said on Sunday. The men were held for possession of arms in Egypt, but subsequent investigations cleared them of "involvement in any terrorism in Egypt", the security sources said. (Christian Science Monitor)
Egypt admits wounded Gazans for medical care Mar 3, 2008
ISMAILIA, Egypt, March 2 (Reuters) - Egypt unsealed a sensitive border crossing on Sunday to let Palestinians wounded in an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip cross into Egypt for medical care. Israeli forces killed 61 people, nearly half of them civilians, in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Saturday, the bloodiest single day for Palestinians since the 1980s. (AlertNet)
Football Fan Zone Feb 12, 2008
With much of the squad also playing for the country's big three clubs, Al-Ahly, Zamalek and Ismailia, Egyptian football has also benefited from the expansion of African club football. The fact that most of their players have been in regular action against opposition from across the continent in the Champions League can only have benefited Egypt's preparations for Ghana. (CNN -- International)
Egypt march past Angola Feb 5, 2008
"They gave us our toughest game so far," the Ismailia midfielder said. "Now we've got the Ivory Coast. They're a good team, but we beat them two years ago.". (iAfrica.com)
Hamas says will control Gaza-Egypt border transit Feb 3, 2008
(Additional reporting by Adam Entous in Jerusalem, Mohammed Assadi in Ramallah and Yusri Mohamed in Ismailia, Egypt; Writing by Dan Williams in Jerusalem; Editing by Caroline Drees). news is provided by. (AlertNet)
Gaza border breach fuels anger over food shortages Jan 29, 2008
(Additional reporting by Alaa Shahine, Aziz El-Kaissouni in Cairo and Yusri Mohamed in Ismailia, writing by Alaa Shahine, editing by Ralph Gowling). news is provided by. (AlertNet)
Egyptian troops pull back, Gazans flood over border Jan 26, 2008
(Additional Mohamed Yusuf in Rafah, Wafa Amr in Ramallah and Yusri Mohamed in Ismailia). Copyright 2008 Reuters. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Egypt begins closing Gaza border Jan 25, 2008
(Additional reporting by Mohamed Yusuf in Rafah, Yusri Mohamed in Ismailia, Egypt, and Cynthia Johnston in Cairo; Writing by Adam Entous and Avida Landau; Editing by Caroline Drees). . (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Palestinians blow up border wall, flood into Egypt Jan 24, 2008
Thu, 07:31 24 Jan 2008 GMT. (Adds Olmert on Gaza). (AlertNet)
Palestinians blow up border wall and flood into Egypt Jan 23, 2008
(Additional reporting by Yusri Mohamed in Ismailia, Mohammed Yusuf in Rafah, Jonathan Wright in Cairo and Ari Rabinovitch in Jerusalem). (Writing by Jeffrey Heller and Ari Rabinovitch in Jerusalem; Editing by Sami Aboudi). (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Palestinians blow up border wall Jan 23, 2008
(Additional reporting by Yusri Mohamed in Ismailia and Mohammed Yusuf in Rafah). (Writing by Ari Rabinovitch; Editing by Sami Aboudi). (International Herald Tribune)
Hour-by-hour forecast Jan 3, 2008
Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 01/03/08 07:15:48 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 55% Visability: 10 miles (16 km). (Florida Today)
Ad push credited for safer festivities Jan 2, 2008
egypt Israel allows 121 to Gaza, rejects 429 ISMAILIA - Israel allowed 121 Palestinians stranded in Egypt for about four months to head home to Gaza yesterday via the Jewish state, but turned away 429 more who had expected to cross the border, Egyptian security sources said. They said the Palestinians had their travel papers processed at the Rafah border crossing and were taken by bus to the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom border point. (Boston Globe)
Palestinian pilgrims on way to Gaza, fate unclear Dec 31, 2007
ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - More than 1,000 Palestinian pilgrims left the Red Sea port of Nuweiba for el-Arish in north Sinai on Sunday as Egypt, Israel and Palestinian officials negotiated their return to Gaza. The pilgrims are the first large batch returning to the isolated Palestinian enclave after completing the annual haj pilgrimage in the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. (Reuters India)
Egypt to give incentives for U.S.-bound ships from Asia to use the Suez Canal Dec 29, 2007
Men watch the Tenaga Satu, a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) tanker owned by MISC Berhad, a Malaysian shipping company, as it sails northbound on the Suez Canal in Ismailia, Egypt, on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007. (Dana Smillie/Bloomberg News). (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Complete weather forecast Dec 7, 2007
Jackson, MS 39201 Last Updated: 12/07/07 07:45:24 EDT. C) Relative Humidity: 74% Barometer: 30. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Egypt to host 11th Pan-Arab Games in November Oct 26, 2007
The venues of the Pan-Arab Games will be in eight governorates in Egypt, namely Cairo, Giza, Port Said, Ismailia, Alexandria, Assiut, Aswan and North Sinai, said the official on condition of anonymity. According to earlier reports by local media, it's estimated that some 7,000 athletes and officials from 22 Arab countries and regions will participate in the upcoming Games, but the exact number of athletes and the agenda have not been fixed. (Xinhuanet, China)
WEATHER: Thunderstorms possible Aug 28, 2007
Weather - 7-day Forecast Summaries. Melbourne, FL 32935 Last Updated: 08/28/07 09:30:35 EDT. (Florida Today)
Three Brothers Die in Egypt's Landmine Blast Aug 13, 2007
ISMAILIA, Egypt - Three young Egyptian brothers were killed when a landmine they were playing with exploded, security and hospital sources said on Sunday. The brothers found the mine in the village of Ain Ghosein near the coastal city of Ismailia on Saturday evening ... The area near Ismailia and the Sinai Peninsula still have landmines from the Arab-Israeli wars of the last century. (Planet Ark, United States)
Three teenage brothers killed in land mine explosion in Egypt Aug 12, 2007
The teenage brothers found the mine in a village near the port city of Ismailia late Saturday, officials said on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media. The trigger went off after the youths started lobbying heavy stones on the mine, the officials said. (International Herald Tribune -- Sports)
* Hamas to pay civil servants in Gaza Strip Jul 30, 2007
GOING HOME: Scores of Gazans stranded in Egypt since last month's Hamas-Fatah clashes were to be allowed by Israel to cross at the Gaza-Egypt border AGENCIES, GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP AND ISMAILIA, EGYPT Monday, Jul 30, 2007, Page 6. The Hamas government in the Gaza Strip was to begin paying thousands of civil servants cut from the payroll of its rival Fatah, officials said on Saturday, further entrenching the divisions between the two Palestinian territories. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Egypt opens shelters in Sinai for stranded Gazans Jul 20, 2007
ISMAILIA, Egypt, July 19 (Reuters) - Egypt opened shelters on Thursday to house hundreds of Palestinians stranded at the closed border with the Gaza Strip for fear that some could resort to sleeping on the streets, an Egyptian official said. Border guards and police patrolling the Egyptian border were put on alert over concern that Palestinians in Gaza would blow holes in a border wall to allow those stranded to return home. (AlertNet)
Egypt frees Muslim Brotherhood blogger Jun 4, 2007
Police said 51 Brotherhood members and supporters had been arrested since Thursday, including seven Saturday in the province of Ismailia, 75 miles east of Cairo. The Brotherhood confirmed on its Web site that its members and supporters had been targeted in recent days, but indicated the total number arrested was only 48. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Egypt holds 32 Brotherhood members Jun 4, 2007
Police arrested 12 others in the Nile Delta city of Damanhoor and the coastal town of Ismailia, security officials and Brotherhood sources said. The arrests bring to at least 80 the number of Brotherhood supporters detained since Thursday. (Aljazeera.Net)
Confucius Institute tablet awarded to Egyptian university May 31, 2007
Ismailia, Egypt, May 30 (Xinhua) -- A tablet of a Confucius Institute was awarded to Egypt's Suez Canal University Wednesday in the northeastern Egyptian governorate of Ismailia. Farouk Abdelkader, president of Suez Canal University, told Xinhua there are a lot of cooperation between the Egyptian and Chinese universities, especially the Suez Canal University, and the number of Egyptian students who would like to learn Chinese is increasing. (Xinhuanet, China)
Peacekeeping plane crashes in Egypt's Sinai, 9 dead May 6, 2007
ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - A plane belonging to the multinational observer force that monitors the Egyptian-Israeli border crashed on Sunday in the Sinai peninsula, killing nine people, most of them French, security sources said. The sources said the aircraft crashed on a road and hit a truck, which exploded. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Hurt Sundowns retain focus May 3, 2007
SUPER 14 FOCUS The Bulls' stalwart Springbok lock Bakkies Botha has recovered from injury, but will only be on the replacement bench when his team plays the Reds in a Super 14 crunch match at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday. FROM THE EDITOR It was embarrassing, it was farcical and it was fitting. (iAfrica.com)
Most Egyptians boycott constitutional referendum Mar 27, 2007
In the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, the ruling National Democratic Party took hundreds of university students to polling stations but many said they voted "No." One student, who asked not to be named, said professors had urged them not to vote in favor of the changes. Ahmed Gaber, a NDP member, said reading the text was enough to make anyone vote no. "These amendments will turn Egypt into a private estate (for the Mubaraks)," he added. (MSNBC -- International)
Making Enemies Feb 16, 2007
The mosque that served as the first headquarters of the Brotherhood, in Ismailia, Egypt, was built by the (British) Suez Canal Company. In the 1930s and 1950s, with Britain s knowledge and tacit approval, the Brotherhood both challenged anti-colonial parties within Egypt and spread to other parts of the Near and Middle East, setting up branches in Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine, where under the approving eye of Israel from the late 1960s to the 1980s, it eventually mutated into... (The American Conservative)
