Tag: Egypt
Al Jazeera journalists on trial in Cairo
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Al Jazeera journalists are due to appear in a Cairo prison court Thursday, charged along with 17 other defendants of having links to a...
Egypt’s Mubarak in court, denies seizing public funds
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Ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak appeared in court on Wednesday and denied charges of stealing public funds, one of four cases against him, state...
Kuwait paper ‘misinterpreted’ Sisi president bid: Egypt army
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Egypt's army said Thursday a Kuwaiti newspaper "misinterpreted" remarks by Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in which he said he would run for president,...
Egypt charges 20 journalists of Al-Jazeera network
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Prosecutors in Cairo said they were charging 20 Al-Jazeera journalists for portraying Egypt in a state of civil war, a day after an Al...
Morsi shows up in court for prison break trial
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Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi appeared in the court on Tuesday on the start of a new trial over charges of prison breaks...
Five Egyptian policemen killed by masked gunmen
Five Egyptian policemen were killed by masked gunmen in an attack on a checkpoint south of Cairo on Thursday, the Interior Ministry said.
The...
98% back new Egyptian constitution
98.1% of people have supported a proposed new Egyptian constitution in a referendum, officials say.
Of the 53 million eligible voters, 38.6 % voted according...
Egypt to announce results of constitutional referendum
Egyptian authorities are to announce on Saturday the results of a constitutional referendum that the interim government has hailed as a ringing endorsement of...
Constitution approved overwhelmingly by votes: Egyptian official sources
Early polling results show Egyptian voters have overwhelmingly approved a new constitution in a referendum, state officials and a news agency said on Thursday.
The...
Day two of Egyptian referendum
Voting continued on Wednesday in Egypt in a two-day referendum on a new constitution drawn up following the overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
The...
Morsi’s no-show at court due to bad weather
Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi on Wednesday did not appear in court in Cairo due to bad weather conditions that prevented his departure from...
Sinai-based group claims Egypt police compound bombing
A Sinai-based Islamist militant faction Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis has claimed it was behind a car bomb attack on an Egyptian police compound in the...
14 killed as car bomb strikes Egypt police building
14 people, in an attack the military-installed authorities said is aimed at derailing a democratic transition.
Hours after the bombing in Mansoura, a city north...
14 killed in deadly attack at security site in Egypt
At least 14 people were killed and more than 100 were injured in a huge explosion before Tuesday midnight at a security building in...
Morsi to be tried for third criminal case
Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi will be facing his third criminal trial - over his breakout from prison in 2011.
Morsi and 132 others, including...
Egypt’s Morsi to sue rulers over ‘coup’
Egypt's deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi intends to sue the army-installed authorities over his ouster in July, his lawyer told reporters on Wednesday.
Mohamed al-Damati...
Egypt unrest continues with series of attacks
Ten people were killed in three separate attacks in Egypt on Monday, most of them soldiers and police officers, in a fresh round of...