Tag: Egypt

Egypt’s top court on Thursday ruled illegal a law that would have barred a Mubarak-era premier from running for president, but judged a third...

The health of Egypt’s ex-president Hosni Mubarak has deteriorated since his transfer to prison after he was sentenced to life in jail over the...

Hundreds of Egyptians occupied Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Sunday after a night of rage as the state prosecutor said he would appeal sentences handed...

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate Mohammed Mursi sought on Tuesday to reassure women and Coptic Christians, who fear a conservative Islamist could threaten their...

Egypt’s landmark presidential election on Monday narrowed to a contest pitting a Muslim Brotherhood candidate against a Mubarak-era prime minister, the country’s electoral commission...

Egypt’s presidential election frontrunners were vying for deals with rival candidates Sunday in a bid to appease a polarised nation that will choose between...

Egyptians must choose between a Muslim Brother or an ex-military man in a presidential run-off that highlights the stark rifts in a nation united...

A buzz of excitement swept through Cairo on Tuesday, a day before its first presidential election since an uprising overthrew Hosni Mubarak, ushering in...

Saudi Arabia has decided to recall its ambassador to Cairo and close its diplomatic missions in Egypt after protests outside its embassy over an...

Liberal and leftist parties have pulled out of a panel drafting Egypt’s new constitution, they announced on Tuesday, accusing Islamists of monopolising the process...

China said Friday it is sending an envoy to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and France to explain its position on Syria, after Beijing called for...

Egyptian police arrested a man on Wednesday who they thought had been a top lieutenant of Osama bin Laden, only to discover that the...

Egypt started on Sunday the trial of dozens of democracy activists including Americans on charges of receiving illegal foreign funding, despite Washington’s insistence that...

Egypt’s first presidential elections since a popular uprising ousted veteran leader Hosni Mubarak a year ago will be held in the first week of...

A superpower is as a superpower does It was not just semantics last week when I said America ‘rules’ rather than ‘runs’ Pakistan. The pun...

Student activists held strikes in Egypt on Saturday to mark a year since they toppled Hosni Mubarak, leaving an increasingly unpopular and defiant military...

Hundreds of protesters marched to Egypt’s defence ministry Friday demanding the military rulers’ ouster, on the eve of a planned civil disobedience campaign to...