RIVER AND OCEAN CRUISES-You may think of cruises as floating resorts, but plenty of ships help you get more intimately acquainted with ports of call. They focus on specific regions, employ experts to add local insight, and can transport you to places that are otherwise hard to reach. For example, Nour El Nil’s 16-passenger Melouka and 20-passenger Meroë skim Egypt’s Nile River in an elegantly updated version of the classic dahabeah, crowned by candy-striped sails. Read on for more of our favorite cruises. PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY NOUR EL NIL
Security services in Luxor arrested a US citizen on Thursday on charges of stabbing an Egyptian with a knife.
Head of Luxor Security Directorate Mostafa Salah Eddin received a communication stating that a US tourist stabbed Abdel Nasser Alaa with a knife. The preliminary investigation revealed that the tourist resides in a hut on the Nile in the village of Baiyrat.
He stabbed Alaa in his hand and escaped before the police arrested him.
