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A constitution drafted by an Islamist-dominated assembly was approved by a majority of Egyptians in a referendum, rival camps said on Sunday, after a...

Tens of thousands of Islamists demonstrated in Cairo on Saturday in support of President Mohamed Mursi, who is racing through a constitution to try...

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday called for demonstrations demanding the retrial of those responsible for protester deaths during last year’s popular uprising against Hosni...

Riot police on Saturday cleared Cairo’s Tahrir Square of protesters who had camped overnight after a rally of some 50,000 people, mainly Islamists, pressed...

Street clashes broke out on Monday as ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak returned to court to face charges over the killing of protesters, the...

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood will hold a public internal election on Saturday for the first time in its history to fill three vacant posts in...

The trial of Egyptian ex-president Hosni Mubarak next week on charges of murder and corruption may be held in Cairo in the presence of...

A court postponed on Monday the trial of Egypt's former interior minister over the killing of protesters until next week so that he will...

An Egyptian administrative court fined ousted President Hosni Mubarak and two former officials 540 million Egyptian pounds ($91 million) on Saturday for cutting mobile...

CAIRO - Hosni Mubarak was in hospital after suffering heart problems under questioning, following protests by hard-core reformists who said he was being protected from prosecution by Egypt's military rulers.
The former Egyptian president fell ill on Tuesday during an inquiry into the killing of protesters in a revolution that toppled him and into corruption in his administration.
Egypt's generals, in charge since Mubarak quit on Feb. 11, have faced increasingly loud calls

CAIRO - Egypt's military rulers on Wednesday issued an interim constitution under which the transitional administration will run the country until elections allow power to be returned to an elected government.
The decree, read by a member of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, confirmed that the military would hold presidential powers until a new head of state is elected.
The interim constitution's 62 articles included amended sections of the old constitution

CAIRO - Egypt's ruling military council will announce a constitutional decree within the next two days that will chart the path towards elections and civilian rule, a security source said on Tuesday. The decree will set a timeframe for parliamentary elections, expected in September of this year, and the presidential polls that will follow them, the source said. "The constitutional decree will set a roadmap for the steps ahead with a timetable for elections and the laws to be passed to

CAIRO - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday said it will form a political party in the wake of the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak's regime, which banned but broadly tolerated the Islamist opposition group.
"The Muslim Brotherhood believes in the freedom to form parties and is therefore determined to have its own political party," Mohammed Mursi, a member of the group's political bureau, said in a statement. "All that prevented the group from achieving this demand was the law on

CAIRO - Egypt's increasingly isolated regime, once disdainful of the media, has launched a charm offensive in a bid to sap the momentum of massive protests calling for President Hosni Mubarak's overthrow.
Ministers are speaking to the press far more often, their remarks are more conciliatory, and the state-run media has belatedly started to use positive terms to refer to the "Revolution of January 25." The government is "making an enormous effort to communicate," political

CAIRO - Dozens of employees and clients waited anxiously on Monday outside Egypt's central administrative complex, Mugamma el-Tahrir, as opposition protesters occupying Tahrir Square blocked all entrances. "Protesters have prevented us from getting in," said Kamal, who idled with a group of colleagues some 20 metres yards away from imposing slab of a building, the heart of Egypt's highly bureaucratic state machine.
Separating them from the building, which reportedly houses 14

CAIRO - Egypt's cultural glitterati have joined thousands of protesters from all walks of life calling for an immediate end to President Hosni Mubarak 30-year-rule. Khalid Abdalla, a British-Egyptian actor known for his lead role in the 2007 adaptation of KhaledHosseini's "The Kite Runner," was among the crowd on Cairo's Tahrir (Liberation) square on Saturday.
"I'm here because I'm asking for Mubarak to step down," Abdalla, 30, told Reuters. "I've been here since Friday before

CAIRO - The top executive committee of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), which includes strongman Hosni Mubarak's son Gamal, resigned en masse on Saturday, state television reported. "The members of the executive committee resigned from their posts.
It was decided to name Hossam Badrawi secretary general of the party," the regime's channel announced amid ongoing opposition street protests. The NDP executive has six members, including its secretary general. Gamal