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With official results yet to be declared Islamist candidate Mohammed Mursi claimed victory in Egypt’s first free presidential election. 256
Read More »A previously unknown Islamist group "Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem" claimed responsibility for the Monday infiltration attack from Sinai into Israel on Monday that resulted in 259
Read More »As both the presidential candidates claimed victory in Monday runoff elections, several thousand Egyptians took to Tahrir Square accusing the ruling military of trying to grab new powers. 260
Read More »Legal adviser to Saudi Embassy in Cairo was quoted as saying that Egyptian security services foiled an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Cairo several months ago and three three Iran 264
Read More »Saudi Ambassador to Egypt Ahmed Kattan returned to Cairo on Saturday, a week after he was recalled following a wave of protests against the detention of Egyptian lawyer Ahmed Gezawi that prompted a di 266
Read More »The General Council of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt has announced it is withdrawing from talks on a new constitution and that Council’s 20 members would withdraw from the 100-memmber Constitu 15
Read More »The campaign head quarters of the presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq came under attack from protesters who opposed his candidacy because of his past role as Prime Minister under Hosni Mubarak, 281
Read More »On the eve of the run-off vote presidential candidate Ahmed Shafik stepped up his attacks against his Muslim Brotherhood rival saying on Sunday that the Islamist would drag Egypt into the "dark ages" 285
Read More »An unnamed Egyptian official said that the country's top prosecutor would appeal the verdict in Hosni Mubarak's trial, which acquitted the former leader and his two sons on corruption charges and clea 286
Read More »Protesting against his entry into the run-off elections, demonstrators attacked the campaign headquarters of Ahmad Shafik, Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister. 287
Read More »People's Assembly held its inaugural session following elections held in November and December 2011. 32
Read More »Former president Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the killing of protesters in Tahrir Square. 288
Read More »The three-decade old Emergency Laws, held responsible for the widespread human rights abuse in Egypt, expired. Imposed following the assassination of President Anwar Sadat it was periodically renewed 289
Read More »Omer Suleiman, former intelligence chief under Hosni Mubarak, began the process to enter the presidential election scheduled for May. 34
Read More »Egypt holds the first multi-candidate presidential elections. It is also the first election since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in February 2011. 290
Read More »An explosion hit the Egyptian pipeline carrying gas to Israel and Jordan in northern Sinai at the entrance of the Mediterranean costal town of Al-Arish. This was the 14th such blast since the beginnin 36
Read More »The Administrative Court of Egypt cancelled an earlier parliament decision regarding the composition of the drafting committee of the constitution. This was in response to appeals by secular movement 40
Read More »It was announced that the run-off presidential elections would be held between Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi and former air force chief and Hosni Mubarak's last prime Minister Ahmed Shafik. In t 302
Read More »The parliament passed a law proposed by members of the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies preventing top officials who served under Mubarak from becoming president. This is seen as an attempt to preven 51
Read More »In an interview published in El Fagr weekly presidential candidate Omar Suleiman warned that victory for the Islamists in the May elections would turn Egypt into a religious state and that it would f 53
Read More »An Egyptian court has ruled that that the mother of a popular Islamist presidential candidate Hazen Abu Ismail is not a U.S. citizen and hence he could run for the May elections. 57
Read More »Farouk Sultan, head of the Supreme Presidential Election Commission, has disqualified 10 candidates for the May presidential election. Those banned include former spy chief Omar Suleiman, Muslim Broth 58
Read More »The official Nile Television reported that sons of deposed president Hosni Mubarak, Alaa and Gamal would go on trial in a criminal court with seven other defendants for their role in the alleged corru 315
Read More »Suspected Islamist militants attacked a police checkpoint in the Sinai peninsula, killing two policemen and injuring a third. 64
Read More »The Central Elections Committee upheld the earlier ban on Omar Suleiman and two other Islamist candidates from running in the May presidential elections. 76
Read More »Grand Mufti of Egypt Ali Gomaa visited Jerusalem and prayed in the al-Aqsa Mosque and he entered the city from the West Bank. The first such visit of the Mufti angered Islamist groups in Egypt and Jor 77
Read More »Along with former President Hosni Mubarak, his interior Minister Habib el-Adli was also sentenced to life in prison for his role in the deaths of protesters killed during the uprising against Mubarak' 334
Read More »In the wake of the banning of Omer Suleiman's candidacy, former Egyptian Foreign Minister and former Secretary-General of the Arab League Amr Musa stepped up his campaign for the Egyptian presidency. 79
Read More »Yasser Ali, a spokesman for Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi said that there is currently no need to amend the peace treaty with Israel, despite calls in Cairo to revise the 1979 accord to allow the 591
Read More »Hammam Saeed, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, denounced the visit of Egypt's Grand Mufti Al Gomaa to Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. He feared that the visit would "open the door" to furt 81
Read More »The Election Commission released the final list of 13 candidates for the May presidential elections. It includes former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq, former Foreign Minister Amr Musa and two Islamists 85
Read More »In an interview published in state-run Al-Ahram newspaper Egypt's chief forensic doctor Ihsan Kameel Gorgy said that Hosni Mubarak has never suffered a stroke and that he is not in critical condition, 599
Read More »Egyptian police seized a 15-ton truckload of marijuana, the biggest drug haul in the country's history, which was being smuggled through a tunnel under the Suez Canal from Sinai Peninsula towards the 601
Read More »Waleed al-Haddad, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) observed that Egypt should seek to allow more security forces in the Sinai than allowed by the Camp David Agreeme 93
Read More »Egypt has turned down a request from eight US-based NGOs for licenses to operate and these include Carter Centre for Human Rights, Christian group The Coptic Orphans and Seeds of Peace. 98
Read More »Mohammad Shoeib, chairman of the Government holding firm Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Cos (EGAS) announced that the company is canceling the 2005 gas export deal with Israel, becsue of "Israel's repea 100
Read More »The Islamist-dominated parliament called on Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa to quit following his recent visit to Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. 103
Read More »Citing "critical and immediate threat" Israel's Counter-terrorism Bureau issued an urgent warning to Israeli tourists in Sinai urging them to leave the peninsula immediately. 105
Read More »The heads of Bedouin communities in northern Sinai met the visiting members of Egyptian National Security Council in Al-Arish and demanded amendments to the Camp David Accords with Israel, claiming th 106
Read More »Former head of the IAEA Mohamed ElBaradei, left, and Egyptian writer and political activist Alaa al-Aswany announce the launch of a new party Al-Dustur (Constitution). 107
Read More »Saudi Arabia announced that it had recalled its ambassador from Egypt "for consultations" and closed its embassy and consulates in the country for security reasons after protests against the kingdom's 108
Read More »A criminal court sentenced Oil Minister Sameh Fahmi under former president Hosni Mubarak and fugitive businessman Hussein Salem to 15 years each for selling natural gas to Israel below market value. 366
Read More »Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi fired his intelligence chief Murad Muwafi and the governor of Northern Sinai following the suspected militant attack in Sinai Peninsula on 5 August. He also dismissed 622
Read More »Egypt began to seal off smuggling tunnels into the Gaza Strip, two days after gunmen killed 16 Egyptian border guards in Sinai Peninsula. 623
Read More »Naglaa Ali Mahmoud, the wife of president-elect Mohammed Morsi, said that she did not want to be called the first lady but merely as “the president’s wife.” 369
Read More »Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi met Ismail Haniya, Prime Minister of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip. 372
Read More »President Mohammed Morsi named an unknown technocrat and former water minister Hesham Kandil as his prime minister. 375
Read More »Shareholders in East Mediterranean Gas, the company that oversaw the now defunct Egyptian-Israeli natural gas deal, are suing the government of Egypt for violating three bilateral investment treaties, 122
Read More »Mohammed Morsi was declared the winner of the runoff presidential elections. According to the Election Commission Morsi secured 51.7 per cent as against 48.3 percent secured by his rival Ahmed Shafiq 379
Read More »Overturning the decision of a lower court in the Nile delta town of Benha, Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court ruled that the presidential election would go ahead as planned for May 23-24. 136
Read More »Speaking before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee Defense Minister Ehud Barak has said that 5 August attack by insurgents in Sinai would serve as a "wake-up call for the Egyptians to t 416
Read More »Four ministers were appointed in a mini reshuffle of the Cabinet of Egypt headed by Prime Minister Kamal Al Ganzuri. The new entrants, all technocrats or academics without any party affiliation, would 161
Read More »Following clashes outside the Defence Ministry, about 300 protesters were arrested in Egypt. 162
Read More »Palestinian daily Al-Quds reported that Egyptian intelligence requested Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh to extradite three members of the Izzad-din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ paramilitary wing 418
Read More »Unknown armed men opened fire on a security checkpoint between Al-Arish and Rafah in the Sinai peninsula. 421
Read More »Security forces in Egypt seized dozens of heavy weapons allegedly bound for the Sinai Peninsula and weapons confiscated include 40 surface-to-surface missiles, 17 rocket-propelled grenade launchers, m 167
Read More »A group of armed men opened fire on the multi-national peacekeeping troops near Um Shyhan area in the middle of Sinai Peninsula but no one was injured. 424
Read More »Armed attackers from Sinai tried to breachIsrael's border at a night raid. While one armoured personnel carrier was hit in an Israeli air strike, a second one exploded at the Kerem Shalom border termi 432
Read More »A Cairo Criminal Court acquitted the 14 policemen of charges of shooting protesters in front of police stations on 28 January 2011, one of the most violent days of the uprising. They were among the 20 179
Read More »Egyptian authorities will detain former presidential candidate Ahmed Shafik for questioning over an alleged corruption case if he returns from abroad, a judge has said. Shafik, ousted President H 437
Read More »Anti-government protests begin across Egypt over issues such as poverty, repression and corruption. 189
Read More »Spokesperson of Egyptian army Colonel Ahmed Ali said that Egypt and Israel are coordinating on Egypt's s biggest security sweep in decades against militants in Sinai, in which 32 people have been kill 445
Read More »President Hosni Mubarak ordered troops and tanks into cities overnight to quell the demonstrations in different parts of the country. 190
Read More »President Hosni Mubarak sworn in a new government with his intelligence Chief Omar Suleiman taking over as Vice-President. Upon assuming office, Suleiman said Mubarak has asked him to start dialogue w 191
Read More »Interior Minister Ahmed Gamal El-Din told state-owned Al Akhbar that Egypt has identified seven suspects, including one Egyptian, responsible for the killing of 16 border guards last month along the b 447
Read More »In a televised address President Hosni Mubarak said that the national dialogue was under way and that he would transfer powers to vice-president but refused to leave office immediately. This angered t 192
Read More »Ahmed Al-Gezawi, an Egyptian lawyer whose arrest in Saudi Arabia in April triggered a diplomatic spat between the two countries denied charges of drug possession and smuggling at a court hearing. 449
Read More »Five out of six security chiefs who were tried for the deaths of protesters during anti-Mubarak protests in February 2011 were acquitted. 197
Read More »Mainly ultraconservative Islamist protesters climbed the walls of the US embassy in Egypt's capital Tuesday and brought down the American flag, replacing it with a black flag with an Islamic inscripti 454
Read More »Armed militias in the Sinai hijacked trucks delivering fuel from the Egyptian port city of Arish to the Gaza Strip and forced the shutting down of the Gaza power station. The trucks were carrying 150, 199
Read More »Egyptian media reported that 30 complaints have been filed against Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, former head of Egypt's army, and his deputy General Sami Anan, for suppressing last year's popular upr 455
Read More »In a meeting between head of the Military Council Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi and representatives of 22 political parties the process of selecting the 100-member panel which would draft a new consti 201
Read More »The authorities in Egypt ordered the arrest of Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister Ahmed Shafiq on suspicion of corruption. Shafiq has been living in UAE after he narrowly lost the presidential elec 457
Read More »Demonstrators attacked the US Embassies in Egypt in protest against a film they consider blasphemous to Islam. 476
Read More »An Egyptian security official was quoted as saying that Hosni Mubarak was slipping in and out of consciousness and that granted his wife Suzanne Mubarak, and the couple's two daughters-in-law special 221
Read More »Following protest, the government of Egypt pulled out public service announcements that warned against talking to foreigners who may be spies after criticism that these fuelled xenophobia. 222
Read More »An Egyptian Interior Ministry official was quoted as saying that former President Hosni Mubarak has slipped into a 'full coma'. 224
Read More »Protesting against the 'over-presentation' of the Islamists a group of liberal and leftist political parties decided to forgo their seats in the assembly that will write Egypt’s new constitution. 226
Read More »Farid al-Deeb, the chief lawyer of Hosni Mubarak told the media that the ailing former president told him that the authorities "want to kill" him in jail. 228
Read More »In defiance of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) two arrest warrants against him for an alleged role in his country’s turbulent western Darfur region, Sudan’s President Omar Bashir met wi 484
Read More »Armed men belonging to Islamist militant groups attacked the North Sinai security headquarters in Al Arish using rocket propelled grenades and automatic rifles. In a separate incident, fighting betwee 486
Read More »Supreme Constitutional Court annulled the parliamentary elections held during November 2011-January 2012 and ruled that a third of the legislature was elected illegally and hence “the makeup of the 239
Read More »Following the ruling by the Supreme Court Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi issued an order dissolving the parliament. 244
Read More »Second round of runoff presidential elections were held in Egypt between Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammad Mursi and former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq. 248
Read More »Fighters from Sinai sneaked into Israel and killed an Israeli civilian, triggering a firefight with Israel's army which left two gunmen dead. 254
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