Wasat Party deputy head Essam Sultan has announced that he is petitioning the Swedish Academy to withdraw the Nobel Peace Prize from Dostour Party chief Mohamed ElBaradei. Sultan issued a Facebook statement Saturday saying, “Following discussions with several legal experts, … read more
The Freedom and Justice Party, the Nour Party and the National Salvation Front (NSF) may be discussing the formation of a new Cabinet that they hope would replace that led by Prime Minister Hesham Qandil, according to informed sources. The … read more
The Freedom and Justice Party headquarters in Mahalla was set on fire by hundreds of protesters on Friday evening, who first barraged the building with stones and Molotov cocktails. Security and civil defense forces headed to the area in an … read more
Security presence was increased around President Mohamed Morsy’s home in the Fifth Settlement on Friday afternoon after nearly 200 April 6 Youth Movement activists staged a surprise protest there. The guards imposed security cordons and set up iron barricades to … read more
About 200 people were injured in Friday’s clashes at several Muslim Brotherhood offices across Egypt, said Mohamed Sultan, head of Egypt’s Ambulance Authority. One-hundred and twenty seven people were injured in clashes at the Muslim Brotherhood’s headquarters in the district … read more
Egyptian protesters have ransacked an office of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party in the northern coastal city of Alexandria. It was the second such attack on an office of the Islamist group on Friday. The first was in the Cairo … read more
Armed assailants kidnapped a Norwegian and an Arab Israeli tourist in South Sinai on Friday, reports Al-Ahram Arabic news site. The masked gunmen, who come from North Sinai according to police, stopped the victims’ car on the road between Nuweiba … read more
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has vowed to defend its buildings against demonstrators after Egyptian security forces clashed with protesters outside the headquarters of the party in the capital city, Cairo. “We have the right to defend our buildings, using all possible … read more
An alleged thief has been beaten to death by a mob in Egypt’s Nile Delta. Dozens of people chased the man before tying him to a tree and beating him to death in El-Guindiya village in Sharqiya governorate. It is … read more
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on Thursday attended a ceremony at Cairo’s Al-Azhar University marking the university’s 39th ‘Teachers Day.’ The event was also attended by Prime Minister Hisham Qandil, Al-Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed El-Tayyib and Shura Council head Ahmed Fahmi. … read more