News tagged with 'alexandria'. Found 13 tagged news.

Egypt school beating 'kills boy'

Cairo :: Egypt | about 1 month ago

The maths teacher, Haitham Nabeel Abdelhamid, who worked at Saad Othman school, was furious because Islam Amro had not finished his homework. After using a ruler to punish him, the teacher is alleged to have taken the young boy outside the classroom.

Tags: Alexandria

Excerpts from Joe McCain 911, police calls

Alexandria :: VA :: USA | about 1 month ago

Excerpts from calls made by Joe McCain, younger brother of GOP presidential candidate John McCain, made to 911 and the Alexandria Police after he got stuck in traffic on Saturday, Oct. 18 at about 2 a.m. McCain called 911 to figure out why he was stuck...

Tags: mccain, Joe McCain, hung, John McCain, Alexandria, obama

Daily Advertiser, Lafeyette, LA: President Bush coming to Alexandria on Monday

Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago

Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-Quitman, and Rapides Parish Sheriff Charles “Chuck” Wagner today confirmed reports that the president would be coming to Alexandria on Monday. Alexander said Bush is coming to the region to meet with local business leaders to...

Tags: president bush, perino, Bush, Alexandria, Rodney Alexander, economy, obama

Septuplets Born to Mother of Three

Alexandria :: Egypt | 3 months ago

Posted by lledsls

A day after giving birth to septuplets, a 27-year-old Egyptian woman said Sunday she's only seen her babies on television and hopes to hold them and name them soon. Ghazala Khamis was still hospitalized after giving birth a day earlier to four boys and...

Tags: alexandria, egypt, birth, motherhood, lifestyle, babies, children, hospital, healthcare, septuplets, beheira, farm

Woman gives birth to septuplets in Egypt

Alexandria :: Egypt | 3 months ago

According to the hospital director, the seven babies weighed between two and three kilograms (4.4 to 6.6 pounds) each at birth and have been put in incubators.

Tags: septuplets, hospital, birth, egypt, babies, children, Egyptian, gives birth, woman gives, Alexandria

Egypt jails Facebook activists

Alexandria :: Egypt | 4 months ago

Around 30 young Egyptians who belong to the so-called "6 April" group on social networking site Facebook, a group which earlier this year called for a day of protests at rising prices, gathered in Alexandria on Wednesday. "We were heading for Sidi Beshr...

Tags: Alexandria, Egyptian

Get a pedicure from a fish!

Alexandria :: VA :: USA | 4 months ago

Posted by mediapirate

    At his spa in Alexandria, Va., owner John Ho has spent over a year setting up a new type of pedicure, and it involves fish. According to Ho, who runs Yvonne Hair and Nails salon with his wife, the procedure involves using hundreds of...

Tags: fish pedicure, john ho, alexandria

Bits: A Wikipedian Challenge: Convincing Arabic Speakers to Write in Arabic

Alexandria :: Egypt | 4 months ago

It has fewer than 65,000 articles, and ranks 29th among the various Wikipedias, just behind Slovenian, and well behind the artificial tongue, Esperanto. One volunteer, Abdel Rahman Hussein, an engineering student in Alexandria, pointed to the Facebook...

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Egypt detains 17 Brotherhood members

Alexandria :: Egypt | 4 months ago

The Brotherhood, Egypt's main opposition group, said police forces were blocking its campaign staff and supporters from voting in the coastal city of Alexandria and the Nile Delta province of Kafr el-Sheikh. The Interior Ministry, however, dismissed the...

Tags: Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood, Alexandria, police detains

Pentagon spy jailed for conspiracy

Taipei :: Taiwan | 4 months ago

Virginia has sentenced a former Pentagon employee to almost five years in prison for passing military secrets to an agent working for China. Gregg William Bergersen was sentenced to 57 months in jail and three years supervised release by a court in Alexandria,...

Tags: taiwan, spy, jailed, U.S.-Taiwan, Pentagon, Tai Shen Kuo, China, Virginia, Alexandria, spy case