Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Two American tourists abducted by Bedouins in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula were released unharmed Thursday following negotiations between local tribesmen and the kidnappers, a security official said.
Security officials said the Bedouins snatched the two men early Thursday as they were traveling by car from Dahab to Nuweiba, resort towns on the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba.The two men, in their 30s, were riding in a rented car when they were stopped at a roadblock by protesting Bedouins, who were demanding release of one of their tribesmen held by security over a drug trafficking charge, the officials said.Their local driver was released. He informed authorities of the kidnapping.The head of South Sinai security, Maj. Gen. Mahmoud el-Hifnawi, told The Associated Press that the two men, were at the local police station after hours of negotiations between tribesmen and the kidnappers. He said they were in good health.Another security official said the authorities later released the tribesman accused...Israel sent two more warships to the Red Sea border with Egypt , the military said Tuesday, part of a military reinforcement there following warnings that militants ...
Moses might not have parted the Red Sea, but a strong east wind that blew through the night could have pushed the waters back in the way described in biblical writin...
Sudan's official news agency says a car has exploded in a Red Sea port in the country's east, killing one man.SUNA says the blast took place on Tuesday at the entran...
Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri has built a reputation as Al Qaeda's bomb-making savant one potential near miss at time: Explosive-rigged underwear aboard a Christmas flight...
Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri has built a reputation as al-Qaida's bomb-making savant one potential near miss at time: Explosive-rigged underwear aboard a Christmas flight...
Saudi Arabia has no evidence that Osama bin Laden's wives and family members deported from Pakistan have been involved in terrorism, an official Saudi statement said...
Limbless French endurance athlete Philippe Croizon said Tuesday he wants to connect the world by swimming between five continents.Croizon, who has previously crossed...
The United States and Yemen pledged Tuesday to step up high-level cooperation in the fight against al-Qaida as government forces punched their way into the heart of ...
Egypt kept most of the 30-mile coastline off the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh closed to swimmers on Tuesday after a spate of shark attacks killed one European t...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The EU's anti-piracy task force says Somali pirates have hijacked a chemical tanker carrying lubricating oil in the Red Sea .The force says pir...
A shark tore the arm off an elderly German tourist at an Egyptian Red Sea resort, killing her almost immediately, security and diving officials said Sunday, only day...
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Imagine a tiny snake robot crawling through your body, helping a surgeon identify diseases and perform operations.It's not science fiction. Scientists and doctors ar...
Guilty or not, Saturday's verdict in Hosni Mubarak's trial will likely deepen Egypt's polarization. Political tensions are already simmering in a heated runoff for p...
Yemeni security officials say militants have opened fire on three U.S. Coast Guard trainers in western Yemen, wounding one.The officials say the shooting took place ...
Officials say the death toll from a suicide bombing at a military parade rehearsal in the capital Sanaa has risen to 38 troops.The military officials say the Monday'...
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a military parade rehearsal Monday in Yemen's capital, killing 96 soldiers in one of the deadliest attacks in the city in years, ...
A Yemeni soldier detonated a bomb hidden in his military uniform during a rehearsal for a military parade, killing 96 fellow soldiers and wounding at least 200 on Mo...
A Polish man fought off repeated shark attacks for two days while attempting to kite surf across the Red Sea , Reuters reports. Jan Lisewski, 42, survived the ordeal...
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