The defence team of Tuesday’s trial of 682 defendants, including the General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, has boycotted the session in protest against the “farcical trials” of coup...

Egyptian university and school students continued their anti-coup protests yesterday, while the Anti-Coup Alliance called for the continuation of “revolutionary escalation” in protest against the ongoing repression of pro-democracy...

Egyptian stock indexes fell today after the 529 death sentences handed down by the Minya court in Egypt Monday. In less than an hour after the beginning of the...

The President of Tunisia, Moncef Marzouki, implicitly condemned the 529 death sentences handed down by an Egyptian court on Monday, saying that he opposes the capital punishment and advocates...

The Cairo Criminal Court is to hold the third hearing session for 20 Egyptians, including four Al-Jazeera journalists, in what has been called “the Mariott Information Cell”. Egyptian authorities...

The Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy yesterday ruled out the likelihood of achieving reconciliation in the Arab Summit to be held in Kuwait this week. In a press conference,...

Secretary General of the Ennahda Movement Hamadi Jebali has resigned, but the movement has not made a decision yet to accept or refuse his resignation, an official in the...

The Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Pope slammed Arab Spring revolts as “an Arab winter plotted by malicious hands to fragment the Arab World.” In an interview with the Kuwaiti Al-Watan...

Al-Minya Criminal Court issued a verdict Monday sentencing 529 Muslim Brotherhood members and Mohamed Morsi supporters to death, including MB General Guide Mohamed Badie and Freedom and Justice Party...

The Egyptian Army spokesman said Saturday that the recent visit by Egyptian army officials to Israel aimed at discussing border security based on the peace agreement, and that it...

Former member of the Egyptian Parliament and FJP foreign relations official Dr Abdel-Mawgoud Al-Dardery said that a number of countries that supported the July 3 military coup are now...

Al-Minya Criminal Court is scheduled to start the largest ever trial of Muslim Brotherhood leaders in Egypt Saturday. More than 1200 senior and mid-ranking members will stand trial on...

Approximately 12 million out of 29.7 million Egyptian electricity service subscribers failed to pay their electricity bills last month, a source in the Ministry of Power and Electricity told...

Hamdeen Sabahi, founder of the Egyptian Popular Current and a potential presidential candidate, said that he would pull out of the race if there are obstacles hindering his election...

Algeria’s former President Liamine Zéroual has suggested that the country’s reins should be passed to the younger generations only a month before Algeria’s presidential elections are due to take...

An Egyptian court sentenced 26 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death on charges of forming a “terrorist cell” aimed at attacking the Suez Canal. The 26 defendants have...

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A delegation from the Egyptian army and Ministry of Foreign Affairs visited Israel last week against the backdrop of consolidating relations between the two countries following the July 3...

The Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) yesterday denounced the prosecution and harassment of anti-government journalists in Egypt saying these methods were being used to silence the voice...

Egypt’s National Alliance to support legitimacy has suggested that the masterminds of the Egyptian coup that ousted Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, are increasingly facing fears of...

Fatah vowed yesterday to sue the Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris on charges of plotting against the Palestinian people and President Mahmoud Abbas and interfering in Palestinian internal affairs. Through...

Three conditions must be met in order for negotiations to be held between the government in Tripoli, Libya, and the Cyrenaica Transitional Council to bring an end to the...

The Misrata Court of Appeals sentenced on Monday the former Grand Mufti of Libya, Mohamed Madani Shweref, to seven years in prison and a fine of 500 Libyan dinars,...

Former Tunisian Prime Minister Beji Caid El-Sebsi said in an interview with Reuters that his party is ready to ally with the Islamist Ennahda movement. El-Sebsi, the president of...

Egypt’s Defence Minister Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday reshuffled the commanders of the Egyptian army shortly before his expected resignation to run for Egypt’s presidency. Al-Sisi replaced Major...

The Cairo Appeals Court turned down a request by the vice president of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing, Essam El-Erian, to disqualify two judges in the Ittihadiya case, where...

Egyptian security forces stormed Al-Azhar University campus in the Nile Delta governorate of Dakahliya yesterday and arrested a number of female students who were protesting against the arbitrary detention...

Egypt and Sudan must investigate and prosecute traffickers for kidnapping, torturing and killing refugees in the Sinai Peninsula, Human Rights Watch (HRW) quoted members of the UN Human Rights...

Trade between Arab states and Russia was worth $14 billion in 2013, Kuwait’s KUNA news agency has reported. Egypt topped Russia’s Arab trade partners, with business valued at $2.9...

Egyptian security forces transferred 44 jailed children, out of 165, from Alexandria to a punitive detention centre in Cairo known by inmates as “the torture camp” in Tora. The...

A delegation from the US Federal Civil Aviation Authority arrived in Cairo yesterday for the start of a five-day visit to Egypt. During the visit, the group will inspect...

The Egyptian interim president Adly Mansour said he would not run in the upcoming presidential elections. Speaking during a televised interview on CBC yesterday Mansour, who was given the...