Preliminary talks geared towards first face to face meeting between the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanayhu, and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, for almost three years
Muslim Brotherhood members stage sit-in at Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque, while other Morsi supporters attend funeral after shooting of demonstrators by security forces
The EU's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, is visiting Cairo to attempt to bring an end to the violence after the weekend killing of at least 82 supporters of the deposed president, Mohamed Morsi