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A helicopter crash in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula involving a multi-national observer force killed eight people on Thursday -- six Americans, a French national and a Czech citizen, the force said.

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"We are laying the groundwork for tourists from around the world to find this destination ... in exemplary sanitary conditions," Egypt's antiquities and tourism minister, Khaled al-Anani, told AFP.

At least 85 people were killed and 80 more wounded when suspected militants targeted a mosque in Egypt's north sinai with a bomb and gunfire, MENA state news agency said on Friday, citing an official source.

Egypt has declared a three-month state of emergency in the restive north sinai province after 31 soldiers have been killed in two different terrorist attacks.

Eighty eight militants have been killed by Egyptian army in the volatile north sinai region, as the country stepped up its campaign against Islamic State-linked terrorists following the Italian consulate bombing on July 11.

At least two policemen were killed and 8 others injured in an explosion in Egypt's restive Sinai peninsula, official said today.

At least 40 militants have been killed in Egyptian army's major ground and aerial offensive in the volatile north sinai region, a day after 15 soldiers and two civilians died in separate attacks by Islamist militants.

At least 29 militants were killed in raids carried out in Egypt's north sinai governorate, the army said on Tuesday.

The Egyptian army has killed one of the dreaded terrorists belonging to an Islamic State affiliated group in exchange of fire in restive north sinai governorate, a senior military official said today.

27 soldiers were among 30 people killed when militants struck multiple security posts in Egypt's north sinai in a series of attacks, involving car bombs and mortar rounds.

Supreme Court justice Sharad Arvind Bobde on Saturday opined the need for a national policy to have a language that is understood through the length and breadth of the country.

At least eight persons including a security officer were killed and several others injured in two successive explosions in the provincial capital of El-Arish in north sinai, the interior ministry said.

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Two policemen, including an officer and a conscript, were killed in an explosion in the north sinai governorate of eastern Egypt.

Four Egyptian soldiers, including two officers, were on Wednesday killed in a roadside blast in Egypt's restive Sinai peninsula, where security forces are fighting an Islamist insurgency.

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