The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy has called for protests against the death sentences passed against 683 people in Minya on Monday. In a statement, the main pro-Morsi alliance said the protests would begin on Wednesday from in front of … read more
The Court for Urgent Matters has ordered the banning of all activities by the April 6 Youth Movement. Lawyer Ashraf Saeed filed the lawsuit, which accused the group of espionage and defaming the Egyptian state. He called for interim President … read more
A Muslim Brotherhood supporter was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Damietta on Monday in a demonstration denouncing death sentences announced earlier, security sources said. An Egyptian court sent on Monday the files of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 682 … read more
The leader of al Qaeda has reportedly called on Muslims to kidnap Westerners, particularly Americans, so they can be exchanged for militants being held in jails. Ayman al Zawahiri, who was previously the extremist movement’s number two until the death … read more
The first appearance of Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, the prime presidential runner, is expected to happen any time starting 2 May when the official nomination period is finalised by the Presidential Elections Committee (PEC), say sources of the presidential campaign of the … read more
A bomb exploded late Sunday inside a house in Azizya village, Sharqia, leading to the injury of the 3 boys who planted it, reported Youm7. Sameh el-Kelani, head of Sharqia Security Directorate, said one of the students’ fathers had been … read more
An Egyptian court sent on Monday the files of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 682 others to the country’s Grand Mufti over violence that followed the overthrow of President Mohamed Mursi last year. The defendants are accused of inciting … read more
Egyptian authorities deported on Saturday US activist named Mary Elizabeth Marshal, 28, to New York City according to a security authority decision which included her name to lists of people banned access to the country. Security sources at Cairo International … read more
Armed assailants kidnapped an Egyptian 15-year-old girl in Libya’s Benghazi on Saturday, Egypt’s state news agency said. Libyan authorities have begun investigations to find the perpetrators, security sources told the agency. This is not the first time an Egyptian has … read more
Egypt has discovered its first case of the potentially deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in an Egyptian citizen who had recently returned from Saudi Arabia, Egypt’s Ministry of Health said on Saturday. The virus, which can cause coughing, fever and pneumonia, … read more