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UN slams Egypt’s crackdown on protesters

Sat Mar 8, 2014 16:02:16

A group of 27 countries on the United Nations Human Rights Council have slammed the military-installed government of Egypt for its wide-scale use of violence against anti-government protesters.

Bombing at Cairo tram station injures at least one

Sat Mar 8, 2014 15:25:05

A blast, described as a suspected homemade bomb, has ripped through a tram station in the Egyptian capital of Cairo wounding at least one person, security officials said.

Egypt police kills 3, injures dozens of protesters

Sat Mar 8, 2014 09:53:14

Egyptian police has killed three protesters and injured dozens more in street battles with supporters of Muslim Brotherhood across the country.

Gazans want Egypt to revise anti-Hamas ruling

Fri Mar 7, 2014 19:52:50

Thousands of demonstrators have poured to the streets in the besieged Gaza Strip to protest against a Cairo court decision banning the popular Palestinian Hamas movement from operating in Egypt.

Egypt police arrest Morsi's son on drugs charges

Sat Mar 1, 2014 22:28:12

One of ousted President Mohamed Morsi’s sons has been arrested for allegedly possessing drugs, the official Middle East News Agency reported.

Cairo court hands 21 Al-Azhar students 3 years in jail

Thu Feb 27, 2014 23:48:28

A Cairo criminal court has sentenced nearly two dozen Islamist students to three years in jail for illegal demonstrations, judicial sources said.

Egypt president gives military near absolute power

Thu Feb 27, 2014 23:28:08

Egypt’s military-installed Interim President Adly Mansour has issued a presidential decree reconstituting that the country’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) be led by the military chief rather than the president for the first time in Egypt's history.

Egypt policemen cleared over killing protesters

Sat Feb 22, 2014 18:02:08

An Egyptian court has acquitted six police officers of charges related to killing 83 demonstrators during the nation's February 2011 reveolution against US-backed dictator Hosni Mubarak.

Egypt frees handcuffed mom after child’s birth

Sat Feb 15, 2014 21:59:55

Egypt’s prosecutor-general has ordered the release of a woman who was arrested last month while eight months pregnant, and who was photographed handcuffed to a hospital bed after giving birth to her child earlier this week.

Egypt detains 19 brotherhood men in Suez town

Sat Feb 15, 2014 20:35:33

Egyptian military spokesman Colonel Ahmed Ali has announced the arrest of 19 “armed members” of the country’s Islamist Muslim Brotherhood in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia following a surge of attacks in the area against security forces.

Putin backs Egypt army chief’s run for president

Fri Feb 14, 2014 09:44:31

Russian President Vladimir Putin has wished Egypt’s military chief victory in the nation’s presidential vote, even though he has yet to announce his bid, a strong endorsement signaling Moscow’s desire to expand its military and other ties with a key US ally in the Middle East.

Egypt's Sisi in Russia to negotiate massive arms deal

Thu Feb 13, 2014 11:05:18

Egyptian army chief and likely new president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi meets top Russian officials on Thursday to negotiate a $2-billion arms deal that is meant to replace subsiding assistance from old ally Washington.

Eritreans suffer rape, violence in Sudan, Egypt torture camps

Tue Feb 11, 2014 16:20:56

Tens of thousands of Eritrean refugees have been enslaved in torture camps in Sudan and Egypt in the past 10 years, enduring weeks or months of violence and rape for the purpose of extortion by traffickers often working with the collusion of state security forces.

In leak conversation Egypt's Morsi says protests "useless"

Mon Feb 10, 2014 21:06:04

Egyptian officials claim security authorities leaked a recording of a private conversation between ousted President Mohammed Morsi and his lawyer on the sidelines of his trial, in which Morsi says protests by his supporters and the crackdown on them are "useless."

Egypt air raid in Sinai kills 16 suspected militants

Sat Feb 8, 2014 20:55:07

Airstrikes in the northern Sinai Peninsula have killed 16 militants with alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's military spokesman claims.

Terrorists flocking Palestinian camp in Lebanon

Sat Feb 8, 2014 15:33:02

Foreign extremist militants are flocking a Palestinian refugee camp in southeastern Lebanon with plans for terrorist attacks, a report says.

Mubarak: Sisi should be president of Egypt

Fri Feb 7, 2014 12:09:06

Ousted Egyptian President Husni Mubarak says military leader Abdel Fatah al-Sisi would be the next president because “people want” him.

General Sisi wants to be Egypt's top pharaoh

Fri Feb 7, 2014 00:03:32

The brutes in uniform are never content with their own job. They want the top spot in the country not because they are capable but because they have the guns and can terrorize people. Those that dare oppose them end up in jail or at the end of a rope. General (Field Marshal) Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the arch Zionist, has just confirmed he will seek the presidency. No one is surprised, although the military council said he was misquoted.

20 gunmen killed in Egypt army raids in Sinai

Mon Feb 3, 2014 18:14:25

At least 20 gunmen have been killed and 25 wounded in Egypt army raids in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, Egyptian military officials say.

Trial of Egypt's military-ousted president resumes

Sat Feb 1, 2014 16:57:39

Deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and 14 other Muslim Brotherhood figures have appeared in court in the capital, Cairo, on charges of inciting the killing of protesters, Egypt's official news agency reported.