At least 60 dead in raid on Cairo protest camp: nurse
The death toll from an Egyptian police raid on supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi at a Cairo protest camp has climbed to 60 at one hospital, according to a nurse who said she counted the...
View ArticleEgypt imposes state of emergency after 95 people killed
At least 95 Egyptians were killed on Wednesday after security forces moved in on protesters demanding the reinstatement of President Mohamed Mursi, and the government imposed a state of emergency as...
View ArticleEgypt mosque besieged as Islamists prepare fresh demos
Egyptian security forces surrounded a Cairo mosque full of supporters of ousted president Mohamed Mursi on Saturday as protesters planned fresh marches after street battles left more than 80 dead.
View ArticleEgypt government dissolves Muslim Brotherhood as NGO
Egypt’s army-backed government has decided to dissolve the Muslim Brotherhood as a registered non-governmental organisation, a state-run newspaper reported on Friday, pressing a crackdown on deposed...
View ArticleEgypt’s Muslim Brotherhood banned
An Egyptian court on Monday banned deposed President Mohamed Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood and ordered its funds seized, a crippling strike in the campaign to crush the Islamist movement.
View ArticleMursi goes on trial as Egypt struggles for democracy
Egypt’s first freely elected president, Mohamed Mursi, goes on trial on Monday under a security crackdown that has devastated his Muslim Brotherhood movement and raised concerns that the army-backed...
View ArticleIn court, defiant Mursi says he still Egypt’s president
Ousted Egyptian leader Mohamed Mursi struck a defiant tone on the first day of his trial on Monday, chanting ‘Down with military rule’, and calling himself the country’s only ‘legitimate’ president.
View ArticleEgypt gunmen kill Mursi judge’s police guard
Gunmen killed an Egyptian policeman who was on a security team guarding the home of a judge in the jailbreak trial of ousted president Mohamed Mursi, security officials said.
View ArticleFive troops killed in Cairo attack blamed on Islamists
Gunmen killed five soldiers at a Cairo checkpoint in a brazen morning attack the military blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood movement of deposed president Mohamed Mursi.
View ArticleEgyptian court sentences Muslim Brotherhood leader to life in prison
An Egyptian court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie to life in prison on Saturday, Egypt’s ON TV said, for inciting the violence that erupted after the army deposed Islamist President...
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