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          Sharm El Sheikh

          Latest news on the Egyptian resort city in the south of the Sinai Peninsula

          Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt’s main tourist resort, is still only posting 35 per cent occupancy in its high season even after most European nations have lifted travel restrictions to the area. Chris McGrath / Getty Images

          Sharm El Sheikh tourist numbers disappoint after lifting of European travel ban

          Travel and TourismApril 25, 2017
          Tourists are starting to return to Egypt and Turkey after a spate of terror attacks last year. Above, the Colossi of Memnon on the west bank of the Nile River at Luxor, 510 kilometers south of Cairo. Hassan Ammar / AP Photo

          Thomas Cook notes tourists return to Egypt and Turkey

          Travel and TourismMarch 28, 2017
          File photo showing the wreckage of a Russian passenger jet bound for St Petersburg which crashed in Hassana, Egypt killing all 224 passengers onboard on October 31, 2015. Moscow suspended air links to Egypt after the crash which was claimed by Islamic militants. Maxim Grigoriev/Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations via AP

          Egypt ‘close to meeting’ Russia’s airport security demands

          WorldFebruary 26, 2017
          Dahab on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula is famous for freediving but is fast becoming a bohemian enclave. Former president Hosni Mubarak remains on its sign despite his fall from power. joko / ullstein bild via Getty Images.

          Dahab, the small Sinai town that became a hipster utopia-on-sea

          December 21, 2016
          Hot sweet tea is brewed over a fire. Photo by John Henzell

          Following the Sinai Trail the Bedouin way

          November 23, 2016
          Tackling the 200km Sinai Trail — in pictures

          Tackling the 200km Sinai Trail — in pictures

          November 23, 2016
          In the town of Vsevolozhsk outside Saint Petersburg on October 31, 2016, a woman with a baby is mourning in front of the foundation stone for a Garden of Memory commemorating the 224 people killed in the bombing of a Russian airliner over Egypt one year ago. Olga Maltseva/AFP

          Russian families mark Sinai plane crash anniversary

          WorldOctober 31, 2016
          Egypt economy year in review: far from smooth sailing despite new canal

          Egypt economy year in review: far from smooth sailing despite new canal

          BusinessDecember 22, 2015
          The October 31 crash killed all 224 people on-board. Maxim Grigoryev / Russia emergency ministry / AFP Photo

          Egypt: ‘No sign of terrorist act’ in Russian plane crash

          WorldDecember 14, 2015

          Sharm el-Sheikh road named after Sheikh Zayed

          UAEDecember 02, 2015
          Syrian soldiers walk at the Kweyris military air base in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo. Syria's military broke a more than a year-long jihadist siege of the air base in the country's north, scoring its first major breakthrough since the Russian air campaign began. George Ourfalian / AFP

          Five steps to solve the ongoing Syrian crisis

          OpinionNovember 17, 2015
          A policeman inspects a car at a checkpoint outside Sharm El Sheikh airport, where the doomed Russian plane took off last month before crashing. Mohamed El Shahed / AFP

          Egypt must instil trust in visitors

          OpinionNovember 12, 2015
          Tourism has traditionally accounted for about 10 per cent of Egypt’s total employment. Namir Galal / Almasry Alyoum / EPA

          Egypt must act fast to put charm back into Sharm El Sheikh

          BusinessNovember 11, 2015

          Egyptian air crash sets off alarms over security at Beirut airport

          BusinessNovember 09, 2015
          A tourist has his belongings checked by Egyptian security forces in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh on November 8, 2015. Mohamed El Shahed / AFP

          Investigators ‘90 per cent sure’ bomb downed Russian flight

          WorldNovember 09, 2015
          Russian tourists shop in the Old Market in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm El Sheikh, south Sinai, Egypt as thousands of tourists fly out of the Red Sea resort on November 9, 2015 after the crash of a Russian plane last week that killed all 224 passengers on board. Ahmed Abd el-Latif/AP Photo

          Thousands more tourists fly home from Sharm El Sheikh after Egypt crash

          WorldNovember 09, 2015
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