A Port Said criminal court sentenced two men to 15 years in prison on Sunday for the murder and rape of a five-year-old girl. Read More
Thousands of workers from Egypt’s largest textile company continued their strike on Sunday, for the seventh day in a row, demanding better pay conditions and that an elected committee be formed to manage their affairs. Read More
Eight people have died of seasonal flu since last Tuesday in Egypt, bringing the total death toll of the flu to 52 cases, said the Health Ministry. Read More
Army forces defused two bombs planted next to Sheikh Zoueid Hospital in North Sinai on Saturday morning, said an army spokesman. Read More
Egyptian authorities arrested 19 Muslim Brotherhood members in a security operation on Friday morning in Ismailia, Egypt’s army spokesman said. Read More
An Egyptian misdemeanor court sentenced 13 people, including seven of Khairat al-Shater’s personal guards, to two years in prison on Saturday for attacking journalists and activists last year at the Muslim Brotherhood’s headquarters. Read More
Egyptians will rise up against military rule because of widespread human rights abuses and economic hardships, former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh said on Tuesday. Read More
An executive of pan-Arab satellite network Al Jazeera said Egypt's arrest of three of its journalists for allegedly assisting a "terrorist organisation" shows Cairo is bent on suppressing all views other than its own. Read More
When an uprising toppled Egyptian autocrat Hosni Mubarak, men like Ahmed Saif who helped run his vast patronage network melted away. Read More
A prominent Gulf-based Muslim cleric called on Saudi Arabia to stop backing Egypt's military-dominated authorities, accusing them of using Saudi money to kill Egyptians protesting at the overthrow in July of an elected Islamist president. Read More
Amr Hamzawy's liberal politics put him on the wrong side of the Islamists who rose to power after the 2011 uprising. Now his criticism of the army-backed order that replaced them is generating new enemies. Read More
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Conference in Cairo calls for release of political activists