The April 6 Youth Movement decided on Tuesday to end the sit-in they have been staging in Tahrir Square for more than 13 days. The movement said in a statement that it would look for other ways to pressure the government to meet its demands.

Former presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabbahi will meet on Tuesday with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who is currently on an official visit to Egypt.

Twenty-year-old engineering student Ahmed Said was stabbed to death on Sunday in the Egyptian canal city of Suez – allegedly by bearded men – while walking with his fiancée.

President Mohamed Morsy has ordered a 15-percent increase in pensions and salaries of government employees, as well as another increase in social security, from LE200 to LE300 to take effect in July.

President Mohamed Morsy met Armed Forces Chief of Staff Sami Anan and Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr, the state-owned MENA news agency reported.

Border patrol guards and security forces in the Delta governorate of Beheira thwarted a plan late Sunday by ninety-four young men from nine different governorates to migrate to Italy.

A march of hundreds of demonstrators has arrived to the presidential palace, demanding President Mohamed Morsy release detainees in military prisons.

Boutros Boutros Ghali, the chairman of the National Council for Human Rights, has sent President Mohamed Morsy the council’s eighth annual report on the human rights situation in Egypt in 2011.

Prominent lawyer Ragaei Atteya held a press conference on Sunday at which he announced plans to launch an as-yet-unlicensed 'Egyptians Party.'

Port Said Criminal Court postponed the trial of 73 suspects charged with killing 74 fans of the Ahly Club until 7 July on Sunday.

The Kefaya movement condemned President Mohamed Morsy on Sunday for thanking the military council during his speech at Cairo University on Saturday.

The 2012/13 financial year began in Egypt on Sunday with the country still lacking a new state budget. Annual state spending plans typically take effect on 1 July, but the status of this year's budget, currently in the hands of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), remains unclear.

The Public Funds Prosecution has begun hearing testimony over accusations that former President Hosni Mubarak seized financial aid sent from some Gulf countries to Egypt following a devastating earthquake in 1992.

A statement released by the Supreme Council of Culture on Sunday declares its respect for the democratic transition in Egypt, while demanding that newly elected President Mohamed Morsi to respect the country's institutions, especially cultural ones.

Members of the Revolution Youth Coalition announced that they would hold a news conference at El Sawy Culture Wheel on Tuesday to announce its dissolution. The coalition was the first political youth entity launched during the revolution. It began with a limited number of movements, which then expanded following the revolution to include youth with various political ideologies.

CAIRO — Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood was formally sworn in on Saturday as the first democratically elected president of Egypt, signaling a new stage in an ever murkier struggle to define the future of the nation after six decades of military-backed autocracy.

Revolutionary youth coalitions and political parties have announced their participation in a demonstration in Tahrir Square on Friday to demand the ouster of the military from Egypt's political life.

President-elect Mohamed Morsi will have full presidential powers when he takes office, Mohamed El-Assar, a member of Egypt's ruling military council (SCAF), said Wednesday.

In a statement issued on Wednesday evening to President-elect Mohamed Morsy, detainees arrested during the Abbasseya violence called on Egypt's new leader to issue general amnesty for all military detainees and prisoners who had been arrested since the 25 January revolution.

Egyptian comedian and actor Adel Imam does not fear for freedom of expression under Islamist President-elect Mohamed Morsi, he told CNN Arabic Thursday.

Judge Osama al-Saidi has begun investigating complaints submitted by former MP Essam Sultan accusing Ahmed Shafiq of squandering public funds.