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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 ...
Rockets fired at Eilat in southern Israel
Militants in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula fired at least two rockets at Israel's southern resort town of Eilat early Wednesday, officials said, ...
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's Muslim Brotherhood condemns Boston blasts
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood condemned the Boston Marathon bombings Tuesday, but a senior member of the group painted them as part of a conspiracy aimed ...
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 ...
Egyptian policeman killed by Sinai gunmen
Egypt's Interior Ministry says gunmen have opened fire on a security convoy in central Sinai, killing a police lieutenant and seriously injuring ...
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 leader and military chief put tension aside
Egypt's Islamist president made a strong show of unity with the military, standing by the country's top general and warning in a statement broadcast ...
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 ...
Hungarian observer in Egypt's Sinai released
Armed Bedouin tribesmen briefly abducted a Hungarian member of the multinational observer force in Sinai, releasing him around two hours later after ...
Egypt's Morsi withdraws complaints against media
An Egyptian official says the president has ordered withdrawal of complaints against journalists for allegedly reporting rumors.
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 ...
Egypt's revolutionary cleric suspended over sermon
A Muslim cleric who became known as "the preacher of the revolution" for his sermons in Tahrir Square during the uprising against ousted President ...
Dutch reporter victim of citizen arrest in Egypt
A Dutch journalist working in Egypt said she was released Tuesday from nearly 12 hours in police custody after an Egyptian vigilante arrested her and ...