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.…
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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…
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…
An Egyptian court has acquitted Ahmed Shafiq, a former prime minister and presidential candidate, and two sons of ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak, of corruption charges. Shafiq fled to the United Arab Emirates shortly after he narrowly lost to the Islamist…
Egypt’s military has arrested a jihadist suspected of involvement in an ambush that killed 16 Egyptian soldiers near the border with Israel last year, an army spokesman said Tuesday. Silmi Mohammed Masbah was arrested Monday in Sinai and is allegedly…
An Egyptian panel approved Saturday more than half of the articles of a new constitution aimed at paving the way for a return to elected rule after July’s military ouster of president Mohamed Morsi. If adopted in full, the charter will be put to a popular…