One dead after Thursday attack on minister One person has died after being injured in a bomb attack on Thursday, which was aimed at assassinating Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim, announced the health ministry on Friday. Read More
Egyptian protester killed as thousands demonstrate One person was killed on Friday in the Egyptian province of Damietta during protests called by the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies against Egypt's army-backed government, a medical official said. Read More
Brotherhood supporters march to presidential palace Dozens of protesters supporting Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood marched from Cairo's Heliopolis district to the Ittihadiya presidential palace on Friday to protest what they described as a "military coup", an Aswat Masriya witness reported. Read More
Army secures Tahrir Square entrances Security and military presence intensified on Friday in Tahrir Square prior to Friday prayers in preparation for the protests against the military planned by the Islamist national coalition to support legitimacy, reported the state-owned news agency. Read More
Police death toll since mid-August reaches 117 - MIO The police death toll since the crackdown on the Islamist's protest camps mid-August has reached 117 people, whereas the inured were 1063, the interior ministry announced on Friday. Read More
Egypt decides to dissolve Brotherhood NGO - report Egypt's army-backed government has decided to dissolve the Muslim Brotherhood as a registered non-governmental organisation, a state-run newspaper reported on Friday, pressing a crackdown on deposed President Mohamed Mursi's movement. Read More
June 30: Mubarak's state reinstated? The concept of suspending some rights and freedoms of individuals to face an imminent danger is agreed upon in several democratic states. However, procedures and implications of declaring state of emergency differ from one country to another showing the difference between democratic and repressive regimes. Additionally, when this “danger” lasts for a long time, regimes become more or less repressive by nature, as suspension of rights and freedoms would become predominant instead of exceptional. Read More
Muslim Brotherhood newspaper soldiers on despite Egypt crackdown Whenever Muslim Brotherhood journalist Islam Tawfiq files a story about the group's struggle for survival for its newspaper Freedom and Justice, he fears his Internet address will tip off state security agents to his whereabouts. Read More
Egypt lacks "pharaoh" to provide for unsettled nation The pharaohs of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty knew what they were doing. As soon as they ascended the throne, they began building a pyramid that would not only see them through to the afterlife, but also give work and purpose to an unsettled nation. Read More
With Brotherhood out, old order shapes Egypt's future Workers in blue overalls clamber over scaffolding around Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque, whitewashing its charred walls to restore a semblance of normalcy to the corner of Cairo where the struggle for Egypt reached a bloody climax this month. Read More
Gulf Islamists irked as monarchs back Egypt's generals A scuffle broke the reflective atmosphere of Friday prayers in Riyadh's al-Ferdous mosque after the imam deplored the recent bloody crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood protesters by the military in nearby Egypt. Read More