The Egyptian National Seismic Network detected a 6.2-magnitude earthquake at 5.21 pm on Saturday, the Middle East News Agency reported. The centre of the quake, which occurred at a depth of 46 kilometres below the sea surface, was in Southern … read more
An improvised explosive device (IED) was found and deactivated inside a bus in Al-Hegaz Square in Heliopolis on Saturday afternoon. A detective officer on the scene told Daily News Egypt that a citizen found an IED on the bus and … read more
Egyptian students loyal to the Muslim Brotherhood fought police at the Cairo campus of Al-Azhar University on Saturday and set fire to two buildings, state television reported. A student activist said a supporter of the Brotherhood, designated this week as … read more
Five people were killed in clashes in Egypt Friday between Islamist protesters and opponents while 265 were arrested as police cracked down on Muslim Brotherhood demonstrations, the interior ministry said, AFP reported. “Brotherhood actions caused the deaths of five citizens … read more
The Muslim Brotherhood claimed in a statement on Thursday that freezing the funds of 1,055 Islamic NGOs would help Christian missionaries convert poor Muslims. The statement quoted Bishop Paul of the Coptic Orthodox Church as saying that the church began … read more
A number of former jihadists have formed the Islamic Alliance to Support Stability which aims to renounce violence, support the draft constitution and nominate Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for president. The group’s statements came at a conference on Thursday … read more
Defence Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Thursday that Egypt will stand strong in the face of terrorism, two days after a bomb blast at a security building in the Nile Delta’s city of Manosura, at a military graduation ceremony … read more
The Egyptian authorities banned the Muslim Brotherhood’s newspaper on Thursday, reported the state news agency MENA. The Freedom and Justice (al-Hurriya wa al-Adala) daily newspaper, named after the Brotherhood’s political party, first appeared in November 2011. read more
Amr Emara, coordinator of the Brotherhood Youth Alliance, said on Wednesday that the alliance decided to establish a political party to substitute the Freedom and Justice Party that is affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. read more
April 6 Youth Movement said in a statement Thursday that Movement general coordinator Ahmed Maher, Movement spokepserson Mohamed Adel, and activist Ahmed Douma have started a hunger strike against “harsh and inhumane treatment in Tora Prison.” The statement added that … read more