Four suspected members of the Black Bloc group have been arrested near the High Court in downtown Cairo Wednesday evening. A Facebook page claiming to be aligned to the Black Bloc group has called on protesters to join Black Bloc … read more
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Omar Salem will choose articles of Egypt’s newly-ratified constitution to be subject to possible amendment by a committee appointed by Egypt’s presidency. According to presidential advisor for political affairs Pakinam El-Sharkawy, the committee’s recommendations will then be … read more
Ahram Arabic news website reported that at least 54 protester and Central Security Forces (CSF) soldiers suffered teargas inhalation and various injuries on Wednesday night in the city of Kafr Sheikh, the capital of the northern Delta governorate. Intense clashes … read more
Before leaving for Germany Wednesday, President Mohamed Morsy approved a law granting army officers judicial arrest power, after it was approved by the Shura Council, presidential sources told the Turkish news agency Anadolu. The Cabinet had proposed the law Monday, … read more
The cities of Egypt’s Suez Canal – Suez, Port Said and Ismailia – continued to witness protests on Tuesday against a government-declared state of emergency featuring a daily 9pm-to-6am curfew. On Sunday night, President Mohamed Morsi announced a state of … read more
A reporter from Al-Ahram’s Arabic-language news website was verbally and physically assaulted in Cairo on Tuesday by Central Security Forces (CSF) in the vicinity of Qasr El-Nil Bridge, which has been the site of recurrent clashes over the past few … read more
A cruise ferry The King of the Nile heading to Aswan from Luxor carrying 120 mostly Egyptian passengers sank in the Nile Tuesday evening, in the Aakab area, 5 kilometers from Aswan after it hit some rocks resulting in a … read more
President Mohamed Morsy met on Tuesday afternoon with the interior minister and other ministry leaders, giving instructions to protect peaceful protesters and act with restraint. As protests continued in Cairo and several other governorates, presidential spokesperson Yasser Ali said Morsy … read more
The Islamist party of the Jihad Organization and Jama’a al-Islamiya has said the ways of dealing with banditry specified in the Quran must be applied to Black Bloc members, which means they must be killed. “God orders us to kill, … read more
The death toll in recent clashes in Egypt’s riot-stricken Port Said governorate has risen to 42, while the total number of injured people has exceeded 1,000, medics said late Monday. Official sources said a few hours ago that the death … read more