The United States on Tuesday urged Egypt not to execute 529 supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi who were given the death penalty in a mass sentencing which has triggered an international outcry. Deputy State Department spokeswoman…
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A court sentenced 529 supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to death on Monday after just two hearings, in the largest mass death sentencing in Egypt’s modern history. Legal experts said the shock verdict would likely be overturned…
A court in Egypt on Monday sentenced 529 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to death after a mass trial, judicial sources said. Islamist backers of Morsi are facing a deadly crackdown launched by the military-installed authorities…
An Egyptian court released a leading leftwing activist on trial for joining an unsanctioned and violent protest on bail Sunday, as the army-installed regime seeks to quell political unrest. Alaa Abdel Fattah and 24 others are accused of taking part…
World number two Laura Massaro was crowned the new world women’s squash champion Sunday after edging Egypt’s Nour El Sherbini in a suspenseful final. England’s Massaro downed Sherbini 11-7, 6-11, 11-9, 5-11, 11-9 in front of a full house in the Malaysian…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, January 30, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — I. INTRODUCTION The African Union (AU) has, over the past…
Officials are to announce on Saturday the results of a constitutional referendum likely to set the stage for a presidential bid by the army chief who toppled Egypt’s first freely elected head of state. Initial tallies suggest this week’s two-day referendum…
Egyptian police found a murdered Swiss couple buried in the garden of their house in the Red Sea resort town of Hurgada, an Egyptian security official said Friday. The security official said preliminary investigations revealed the two Swiss citizens…
A bomb near an army intelligence building wounded four soldiers Sunday, the third such blast within a week in Egypt after the Muslim Brotherhood’s terrorist designation further polarised the country. The explosion, which the army said was a “cowardly…
Several thousand African asylum seekers who entered Israel illegally via Egypt staged a peaceful protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday, police said. The demonstrators denounced the refusal of the authorities to grant them refugee status, as well as holding…
Egyptian police said Friday a man died in clashes as tensions soared in Cairo following a bus bombing and further arrests of members of the Muslim Brotherhood after its listing as a terrorist group. Defiant student supporters of the Brotherhood protested…
A bomb exploded near a bus in Cairo Thursday injuring five people, a day after the government widened a crackdown on Islamists by declaring the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group. The windows of the red and black public transport bus were shattered…
Egypt’s military-installed rulers declared the Muslim Brotherhood of ousted president Mohamed Morsi a “terrorist” organisation Wednesday, signalling a wider crackdown after blaming it for a deadly police compound bombing claimed by a jihadist group.…
Egyptian police arrested on Tuesday Hisham Qandil, who was prime minister under deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, the interior ministry said. The ministry said he was arrested in the desert outside Cairo with a “smuggler attempting to escape…
Angry Egyptians standing on piles of debris and shattered glass pointed the finger of blame at the Muslim Brotherhood after a car bomb ripped through Mansoura’s police headquarters on Tuesday. “The people want the execution of the Muslim Brotherhood…
An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced three activists who spearheaded the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak to three years in jail for organising an unlicensed protest, judicial sources said. It was the first such verdict against non-Islamist protesters…
BERN, Switzerland, December 18, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Federal Council decided during today’s session to extend by three…
BEIJING, China, December 18, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — On December 16, 2013, Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks with…
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Egyptian police raided the offices of an NGO affiliated with a leftist former presidential candidate, arresting three employees and confiscating computers, the group’s director said Thursday. The Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights, founded…