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State TV reports 3rd bomb in Cairo near a police station. No further details available at present. we will update as soon as we get independent conformation and more information. read more

At least one was killed when an improvised bomb exploded Friday near a metro station in Giza, state TV reported, in the second explosion in Greater Cairo on Friday. read more

The US Embassy has urged all Americans living in Cairo to exercise the uptmost caution on Friday and Saturday and limit their movements to their neighborhoods, warning of possible protests in squares, universities and around government buildings. read more

A student was shot dead Thursday afternoon during clashes between security forces and students in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, north-west of Cairo. The student was named as Amr Khalaf, a student from Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Al-Ahram Arabic website … read more

A large blast ripped through a security buidling in central Cairo early on Friday, killing at least four, security and health ministry officials said. At least 51 others were wounded in the explosion at the Cairo Security Directorate, in Bab … read more

Egypt has seen state violence on an “unprecedented scale” since the army overthrew Islamist President Mohamed Mursi last July following mass protests again his rule, Amnesty International said in a report on Thursday. Egypt’s authorities “quash dissent and trample on … read more

A prominent leader of the National Alliance to Support Legitimacy, the main pro-Mohamed Morsi coalition, told Al-Jazeera Egypt that Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s foreign policy envoy, had only one goal when she visits Egypt, which is to support what … read more

Almost seven months since its free fall from power, the Muslim Brotherhood appears to be seeking rapprochement with some of the people who opposed the rule of the group. Days before the third anniversary of the 2011 popular revolt that … read more

Masked gunmen riding motorcycles killed five Egyptian policemen in an attack on a checkpoint south of Cairo on Thursday, the Interior Ministry said. The attack in the province of Beni Suef, 100 km (62 miles) south of Cairo, was carried … read more

April 6 Youth Movement (Democratic Front) has condemned the arrest of six of its members for distributing flyers calling for gatherings on the revolution’s anniversary. They were arrested at Cairo’s Shohada Metro station and detained for nine hours before being … read more