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Egypt's Ministry of Sports has decided to ban Kung Fu Champion Mohammad Yousuf from representing Egypt in the next round of international events after he made a gesture with...

The defence minister and a number of army officials carried out a military coup on July 3, 2013 against the legitimate government of Egypt that came into office by...

Video Published by pro-coup Al Watan newspaper, November 3, 2013. Below is the transcript of the video. (The coup) is legally a full-fledged crime. Hence, I am the president...

Arab MK Jamal Zahalqeh has called upon the Palestinian Authority to "immediately" stop peace talks with Israel in the wake of the Knesset's overwhelming vote on Monday to return...

The list of those being considered for prosecution by a team of international lawyers includes journalists and clerics associated with the coup in Egypt, it has been revealed. Tayab...

A senior member of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Saad Al-Husseini, revealed in court that the coup leaders have offered to release Muslim Brotherhood leaders and members of Egypt's Anti-coup alliance...

Dr Amr Darraj, a leader of Egypt's Anti-Coup Alliance, has revealed that the interim government is offering the Muslim Brotherhood a post as Head of the Cabinet to resolve...

Egyptian politician Amr Mousa has been denied a place in the Association of Arab Parliamentarians because he holds no official position in the coup-led government. Although he is heading...

Ahmad Shafiq, Egypt's former presidential candidate has exposed details of a counter-revolution that the Egyptian government has planned against the January revolution. Shafiq has reappeared after a suspicious disappearance...

Human Rights Watch issued a report on Monday accusing the Egyptian authorities of detaining around 1,500 refugees who fled the internal conflict in Syria and preparing to deport them...

Bassem Yousef's controversial satirical show "El-Bernameg" (the Program) has been permanently suspended after disputes between the show's production company and the Egyptian CBC channel escalated when the channel decided...

Fekri Nabil, a member of the Misr Al-Qawiya party, said the Committee of 50 to rewrite Egypt's constitution has drafted articles about the armed forces' mandate that signal a...

Egypt's aviation authorities at Cairo international airport have said that three airline companies had to cancel five scheduled flights to Saudi Arabia, Italy, Jordan and Libya on Sunday due...

PHOTOS The Egyptian judiciary is to prosecute ousted president Mohammed Morsi, the first ever elected Egyptian president, for inciting the killing of protesters, Reuters reported on Monday. A report...

The Egyptian media have reported revelations from sources claiming that the UAE has placed conditions on its financial assistance to Egypt. According to the sources, the conditions included knowing...

Palestinian sources have claimed that the Egyptian authorities' decision to close the smuggling tunnels under the border between Gaza and Egypt is "irreversible". According to Al Hayat newspaper, the...

The Cairo Criminal Court has postponed the trial of Ahmed Shafiq, along with the trials of ten other defendants, to 20 November. Shafiq, the former prime minister who lost...

VIDEO In a new leaked audio tape, the Egyptian coup leader Gen. Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi has called for an end to subsidies on bread and energy in Egypt, as well...

In the few months since the ousting of President Mohamed Morsi, a major justification put forward by apologists for the coup has been that it was necessary to increase...

Egyptian security forces have closed Tahrir Square to vehicles and pedestrians to prevent mass protests developing in the square.   A joint Egyptian army and police force prevented cars...

Amnesty International North Africa campaigner, Nicholas Piachaud has confirmed that Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi's human rights have been violated. Piachaud accused the Egyptian authorities of undermining Morsi, who is...

The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities has recovered 90 artefacts that were displayed for sale by an auction house in Jerusalem. Egyptian Minister of Antiquities, Dr Mohammed Ibrahim, said that...

Egypt's Committee of 50 has decided to abolish an article in the former constitution dictating that workers and farmers occupy at least 50 per cent of parliamentary seats. The...

The Egyptian coup authorities have today ordered the Turkish ambassador to leave the country saying that Turkey has blatantly interfered in Egypt's internal affairs, a foreign ministry statement said....

Egypt's Sports Minister, Taher Abu-Zaid, has ordered the council of the Egyptian Football Union not to sell the broadcasting rights for the country's Premier League to Al-Jazeera Sport Channel....

Egyptian security services prevented anti-coup journalists and solicitors from attending ousted president, Mohammed Morsi's, trial.   Sources said that Court of Appeal in Cairo decided to hold the hearing...

The interim Egyptian presidents' spokesman, Ehab Badawi, has said that Egypt will reassess its relations with Turkey in light of Turkey's contradictory messages towards the country. Badawi said the...

A Kuwaiti judicial source, in an exclusive statement to the Anadolu news agency on Sunday, revealed that the $4 billion aid package that Kuwait is offering to Egypt must...

The head of state industrial holding company Rostec said on Monday that Russia is to provide Egypt with air defence missile systems. Sergei Chemezov told the state-run RIA Novosti...

About 50 Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Egyptian prisons started a hunger strike on Friday in protest against the inhuman conditions of their detention, an official for the UN...

Abdel-Fattah Ibrahim, head of Egypt's Textile Union has said the government will not be able to fulfil its financial obligations, which amount to 80 million Egyptian pounds towards 70,000...

The head of el-Wafd Party and a leading member of the National Salvation Front, has said that his opposition group will support the coup's leader, defence minister, Abdel Fattah...