The Egyptian Parliament on Monday voted to give President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi the authority to deploy troops to Saudi Arabia, where they would help the kingdom repel attacks from the Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen.

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Many Egyptian tombs reveal the trade of the person inside. A scribe is buried with his writing palette, a soldier with his weapons. The tomb that has just come to light at Saqqara breaks that pattern. In the burial shaft of a man named Weni, archaeologists found several bronze instruments that may have been used […]