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Egypt president, judges compromising on reform law
The Egyptian president's office indicated Sunday a compromise has been reached with the judiciary to defuse an uproar over a proposed law that would ...
Egypt court turns down Mubarak's release request
Egypt's state news agency says a court has turned down deposed President Hosni Mubarak's request to be released from prison during an investigation ...
Muslim-Christian relationship fuels row in Egypt
An alleged romance between an Egyptian Muslim college student and a Coptic Christian man heightened sectarian tension on Friday in a small rural ...
Draining cash, Egypt on $30 billion search for aid
During a meeting in a Black Sea resort city, Egypt's president and members of his government turned to Russian President Vladimir Putin and asked for ...
Egypt's rights group decries draft NGO law
A leading Egyptian human rights group on Thursday denounced a draft law prepared by the country's Islamist government to grant licenses and monitor ...
Egypt proceeds with judiciary law despite uproar
Egypt's Islamist-led parliament on Wednesday pushed ahead with a law that could force into retirement many of the nation's most senior judges, despite ...
Egypt probes prosecutor who ordered drunk flogged
An Egyptian prosecutor who cited the Quran as he ordered police to flog a man with 80 lashes for public drunkenness has been suspended and put under ...
Egypt justice minister submits resignation
Egypt's justice minister submitted his resignation Sunday, a Cabinet spokesman said, in a move that signaled strong disapproval of the president's ...
Top Gadhafi aide to face trial in Egypt
A cousin and onetime top aid of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi will face trial in Egypt on charges of attempted murder. Prosecutor Hamdi ...
Egypt's Morsi to reshuffle Cabinet amid turmoil
Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi defended his handling of some of the nation's most pressing problems in a nearly two-hour television interview on ...
Group accuses Egypt's Morsi of ignoring atrocities
Some members of a high-level commission that issued a report detailing security abuses and atrocities during and after Egypt's 2011 uprising accused ...
Pro- and anti-Islamist protesters clash in Egypt
Supporters and opponents of Egypt's Islamist president battled in the streets near Tahrir Square on Friday as an Islamist rally demanding a purge of ...
Egyptian Jewish leader buried in rundown cemetery
The late leader of Egypt's dwindling and aging Jewish community was buried Thursday in one the oldest cemeteries in Egypt, the once-sprawling burial ...
Egypt's opposition split over election boycott
A split erupted Thursday in Egypt's main liberal opposition bloc, the National Salvation Front, over whether to go ahead with a boycott of ...
Even in desert retreat, monks feel Egypt's turmoil
In a cave here high in the desert mountains of eastern Egypt, the man said to be the father of monasticism took refuge from the temptations of the ...
Egypt court sets May 11 for Mubarak retrial
The Cairo appellate court on Wednesday set May 11 for the resumption of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's retrial in the deaths of hundreds ...
New leader to head Egypt's Jewish community
Egypt's Jewish community has announced that it has elected the daughter of a well-known leftist and nationalist icon to protect its heritage and care ...
Egypt policeman sentenced to 15 years for torture
An Egyptian court sentenced a police officer to 15 years in prison on Tuesday for torturing an ultraconservative Muslim to death, a rare lengthy ...
Egypt's Mubarak still jailed despite release order
Egypt's deposed President Hosni Mubarak will remain in custody on new corruption charges, despite a court order to release him before his retrial over ...
Brotherhood members face torture charge in Egypt
Two Muslim Brotherhood officials have been sent to trial on charges of kidnapping and torturing three men during protests in November following ...
Leader of Egypt's Jewish community dies at 82
The leader of Egypt's dwindling and aging Jewish community, known for her tireless work preserving synagogues and a once-sprawling Jewish cemetery, ...
Mubarak appears in Egyptian court for retrial
The judge in Hosni Mubarak's retrial recused himself at the start of the first session on Saturday, citing a conflict of interest as the former ...
Egypt's legislature approves election law
Egypt's Islamist-dominated legislature approved a revised version of the law organizing the country's parliamentary elections on Thursday, after a ...
Egypt denies hardliners halted Iran tourism
Egypt's presidential spokesman says tourist flights from Iran were not suspended because of pressure from "any particular groups." Ehab Fahmy's ...
Egypt's pope sharply criticizes president
Egypt's Coptic Christian pope delivered an unprecedented direct criticism of the Islamist president Tuesday after a mob attack on the church's main ...