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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced the evacuation of ten more Greeks from Sudan Tuesday.

The ten boarded German planes and have arrived in Amman, Jordan.

A second Hellenic Air Force C-27 cargo plane flew from Aswan, Egypt, to Djibouti on Tuesday to collect Greeks to be evacuated from Sudan, where an internal conflict had been raging for a second week. A ceasefire enabled the evacuation.

The first 28 Greeks evacuated from Sudan will arrive at a military airfield in Elefsina, west of Athens, Tuesday morning.

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Egyptian authorities said on Jan. 10 they had detained three people for trying to steal a millennia-old 10-ton statue of the pharaoh Ramses II with a crane.

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CAIRO: Egypt says archaeologists have discovered a statue of a lion's body and a human head in the southern city of Aswan.

The Antiquities Ministry says Sunday the sphinx made of sandstone was found in the Temple of Kom Ombo during work to protect the site from groundwater.

"How was Egypt? Did you see the Pyramids?" This is the first question any visitor to the Northern African country would normally hear upon arrival at the airport of their respective hometown. Answering "no" would make friends or family members coming to welcome you at the airport frown with a question on their lips.

A team from a Spanish university has discovered what Egyptian authorities are calling the world's oldest evidence of breast cancer in the 4,200-year-old skeleton of an adult woman.