Egypt’s transport minister resigned on Wednesday, the cabinet said, hours after a deadly train crash killed 20 at Cairo’s central railway station. “Transport Minister Hisham Arafat submitted his resignation … and the prime minister accepted,” the cabinet said in a statement.
A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in the heart of ancient Islamic Cairo, killing three policemen who were chasing him through its narrow alleyways, medical and security sources said on Tuesday. Monday evening’s bombing, in the Darb al-Ahmar neighborhood near the historic Al-Azhar mosque, also wounded two other policemen, ...
