At least one person has been killed and more than 20 injured in clashes outside Cairo’s St Mark’s Cathedral following the funerals of four Coptic Christians killed in religious violence. Coptic mourners leaving Cairo’s main cathedral are said to have clashed with local residents. Police fired tear gas to break up the violence. The head [...]
Egypt’s former President Hosni Mubarak will face retrial on April 13, the country’s appeal court has decided. Hosni Mubarak faces charges of conspiring to kill protesters during the 2011 revolt that forced him from power, and corruption. A retrial was ordered in January after a court accepted his appeal against the life sentence he had [...]
French, British, Hong Kong and Japanese nationals are among 19 tourists reportedly killed in a hot air balloon crash near the Egyptian city of Luxor. The balloon was flying at 1,000 ft (300 m) when it caught fire and exploded, plunging onto fields west of Luxor, officials said. One witness said people were jumping out [...]
Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi has called parliamentary elections, starting on April 27 and end in June. A presidential decree said voting would take place in four regional stages, due to a shortage of election supervisors. Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood movement hope the election will put an end to increasingly vocal opposition and street [...]
Anti-Mohamed Morsi protesters have clashed with police outside the presidential palace in Cairo, after a week of violence in which more than 60 people were killed. Riot police used tear gas and water cannon to try to drive back the crowds throwing rocks and petrol bombs. Thousands also rallied in Port Said – one year [...]
A court in Egypt has ordered a retrial for ex-President Hosni Mubarak after accepting an appeal against his life sentence over the deaths of protesters. Hosni Mubarak, 84, was overthrown last year after mass street protests in the capital Cairo and other cities, and jailed in June. Since he was jailed, there have been frequent [...]
Egypt’s vice-president Mahmoud Mekki has announced his resignation on the day the country completed its voting in a controversial referendum on a draft constitution. Mahmoud Mekki, a former judge who was appointed vice-president in August, said the “nature of politics” did not suit his professional background. Polls have now closed in the second leg of [...]
Egypt begins voting in a second stage of a constitutional referendum that has sparked weeks of unrest in the country’s main cities. Opponents of President Mohamed Morsi have held protests against the draft, saying it favors the Islamists now in power and betrays the revolution that overthrew Hosni Mubarak last year. Mohamed Morsi’s supporters say [...]
President Mohamed Morsi has ordered the military to maintain security and protect Egypt institutions in the run-up to a controversial referendum on a new constitution. The army has also been given the power of arrest. Mohamed Morsi has tried to calm public anger by annulling a decree giving him huge powers, but rejected a call [...]
At least 47 children aged four to six years old have been killed after their school bus was hit by a train near Manfalut, central Egypt, officials said. The bus was carrying about 60 children from a nursery school when it was hit by a train near Manfalut, 350 km (230 miles) south of Cairo. [...]
A child-trafficking ring that sold 300 babies over three years has been broken up in Cairo, Egyptian police say. Two nurses and a doctor at a Cairo hospital are among five people arrested and police say they are still searching for the hospital manager. The babies were reportedly sold to childless couples after Caesarean sections [...]
At least 13 Egyptian policemen have been killed by unidentified gunmen who attacked a checkpoint on the Egyptian-Israeli border, officials say. Israel said the attackers, who were in two vehicles, then tried to smash their way across the border. The Israeli military said one vehicle was destroyed from the air, while the other blew up [...]
Egypt’s new government is due to be officially announced and sworn in by President Mohammed Mursi, who took office last month. Media reports suggest Prime Minister-designate Hisham Qandil’s government will be mostly technocrats, with at least two ministers from the previous government and a few Islamists. Former military ruler Mohammed Hussein Tantawi is set to [...]
Members of Egypt’s Olympic team have been given fake Nike gear, Yomna Khallaf, a synchronized swimmer, has alleged. Yomna Khallaf said her workout bags had a big Nike logo in the front but the zippers had an Adidas branding on them. The Egyptian Olympic Committee (EOC) secretary general, Motaz Sonbol, said they were shocked to [...]
Supreme Constitutional Court in Egypt, which dissolved the parliament last month, is due to discuss how to respond to President Mohammed Mursi’s order to reconvene it. The speaker of the dissolved house has called for it to meet on Tuesday. Military and judicial authorities have held emergency talks, but have not announced any action so [...]
Egypt’s ruling military council has vowed to hand over power to an elected president by the end of June. The promise comes as votes are counted after Sunday’s presidential run-off election, with both candidates claiming they are ahead in early results. However, the council had earlier issued a declaration granting itself sweeping powers over legislation [...]
Egyptians are starting to vote in their first free presidential election, 15 months after ousting Hosni Mubarak in the Arab Spring uprising. Fifty million people are eligible to vote, and queues are forming at some polling stations. The military council which assumed presidential power in February 2011 has promised a fair vote and civilian rule. [...]
Ten candidates from the Egyptian presidential poll, including former spy chief Omar Suleiman and the Muslim Brotherhood’s Khairat al-Shater, have been barred by election officials. Ultra orthodox Salafi Sheikh Hazem Salah Abu Ismail has also been banned. No reason was given by officials, who said the banned candidates had 48 hours to appeal. Thirteen candidates [...]
Two people have been shot dead by police and more than 400 injured in protests across Egypt sparked by the deaths of 74 people after a football match. The two killed were shot by police trying to disperse angry crowds in the city of Suez, medical officials said. In the capital Cairo, thousands of protesters [...]
Two people have been killed and more than 670 injured after protesters clashed yesterday with security forces in Cairo and Alexandria. The latest clashes came as police moved to prevent a long-term sit-in following a huge demonstration in Cairo against the military leadership on Friday. It was reported that some protesters lobbed rocks and a [...]
Egypt has declared state of alert after three people die and more than a thousand were injured as crowds attacked the Israeli embassy in Cairo. Israel has evacuated its ambassador in Egypt after crowds stormed the embassy in Cairo, plunging Egypt’s ruling army deeper into its worst diplomatic crisis since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak. [...]
Israel new air strikes came hours after gunmen armed with heavy weapons and explosives killed at least 7 people in southern Israel. Israel launches new air strikes on Gaza today after accusing militants in the Palestinian territory for deadly attacks near Eilat on Thursday before noon. According to the militants, 5 Palestinians were killed [...]
Former Egyptian leader, Hosni Mubarak’s trial has been adjourned until next month, but judge says proceedings will no longer be televised. Ahmed Rifaat, the Mubarak’s trial judge said the court would reconvene on September 5 to hear evidence, ruling that the trial, which was being broadcast live by many channels and on big screens outside [...]
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