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El-Shahat denies saying that football is a sin

Salafist sheikh denies earlier reports that he said football is a sin and that the victims of the Port Said massacre died watching a forbidden form of entertainment

Mubarak skips trial today due to ' turbulent weather '

Cairo's inclement weather conditions reportedly prevent Egypt's ousted strongman from being flown to court room for Tuesday's proceedings

Speaker of the parliament sends a delegation to investigate the use of force against protesters

Parliamentary Speaker says the minister of interior should order the security forces not to use birdshot against protesters

Interior ministry approves demand to transfer Mubarak to Tora Prison hospital

Ousted president Hosni Mubarak is to be transferred to the hospital of Tora Prison after demands from the People's Assembly

Chief of Staff Anan tells Egyptians: Expect good news soon

Egypt's chief of staff in televised phone interviews denies rumours of ill health and at the same time states that the ruling military is considering some of the protesters' demands

Egypt security forces gain upper hand in football deaths protest

Security forces push protesters away from area near Cairo's interior ministry after efforts to end the violence fail

Six Americans and 34 other NGO affiliates to be tried in Egyptian criminal court

Egypt's investigators decide to press criminal charges against six Americans for unauthorised funding of NGOs, amidst already tense diplomatic relations

Interior minister accuses protesters of provoking security forces

At Sunday presser, interior minister charges anti-govt protesters with provoking security forces, plotting to storm and burn down ministry building

Politics

Targeting of NGOs puts Egypt-US relations to test

The decision to refer 43 NGO workers to trial - including several US nationals - is likely to strain Cairo's already-tense relations with Washington even further; Egypt says it is defending its sovereignty

Egypt magistrate names 43 defendants in foreign-funded NGOs case

Egypt plans to send delegation to US as NGO furor mounts

NGO crackdown: Frontline of the ongoing revolution

EU's Ashton 'greatly concerned' over security raids on Egypt NGO offices

NGO raids: a 'smear campaign' say Human Rights groups, as SCAF backdown

Egypt’s military rulers retreat on NGO crackdown after US intervention: reports

Protesters' birdshot accounts refute Egypt's interior ministry claims

Interior minister denies to parliament that police used birdshot to break up recent protests - but testimonies by injured activists and video footage from scene of bloody clashes challenge his version of events

Armed attacks by civilians on protesters raises nationwide death toll to 15

Fighting near interior ministry Monday took new turn as heavily-armed civilians turn guns on anti-government protesters; man falls to death from a building roof; eyewitnesses suspect police guided latest assault

Minister, parliamentary rights committee discuss NGO crisis in Egypt

International Cooperation Minister Fayza Aboul Naga explains Egypt's ongoing crackdown on foreign-funded NGOs

Salafist says victims of Port Said tragedy died in sin

Stirring controversy once again Salafist Abdel Moneim El-Shahat says “football is forbidden by Sharia law” and that victims at Port Said should not be considered martyrs

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SCAF mulls damage control measures

The ruling military council may, if only symbolically, bring forward presidential elections in reaction to current social and political unrest, sources report

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