The Muslim Brotherhood, certain of an electoral victory, is getting ready to assume Egypt’s presidency for the first time in its 84-year-old history, but that might not be enough to prevent the powerful military establishment from becoming a power behind the throne.

Islamists in Egypt have grown divided over whether to attend the funeral of deposed President Hosni Mubarak, who is currently in critical condition, if he dies.

The Muslim Brotherhood has warned against a dangerous confrontation between the people and the army if presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq wins the presidency.

At 7 pm on Saturday, Muslim Brotherhood members gathered at the Freedom and Justice Party’s general secretariat in Alexandria to perform the sunset prayers following long hours monitoring the electoral process on the first day of the presidential runoff.

Five Egyptian political parties have jointly called for the establishment of a pro-civil-state political force to stand against "repression" by the military and Islamist groups.

Cairo’s High Administrative Court has adjourned until 1 September a lawsuit calling for the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Jama’a al-Islamiya’s consultancy council has said it rejects the addendum made by the ruling military council to the Constitutional Declaration, which has been governing the country since March 2011.

The Muslim Brotherhood announce they have organised mass protests for Tuesday in their official objection to the addendums to the Constitutional Declaration issued by Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) late on Sunday night.

Freedom and Justice Party presidential candidate Mohamed Morsy’s campaign during a news conference Tuesday declared victory in the runoff election.

hamed Mursi's campaign team has displayed what they claim is proof of his presidential election victory at a press conference Tuesday. It also refuted claims from Ahmed Shafiq's campaign team that its candidate won the election.

Ibrahim Ramzy, a member of Parliament’s Constitutional and Legislative Committee, criticized committee head Mahmoud al-Khodairy and deputy Mohamed al-Omda’s attempt to enter Parliament today and hold a committee meeting.

The new president should be sworn in before the elected Constituent Assembly, which should begin work on the new constitution immediately, said the Jama’a al-Islamiya’s Shura Council in Minya on Monday.

The Coptic Orthodox Church has said that it would respect the final results of the presidential election and is not concerned by a potential Muslim Brotherhood victory.

The campaign team of presidential hopeful, Mohamed Mursi, claims that 69 percent of Egyptian voters have thus far chosen their candidate.

The Muslim Brotherhood criticised Saturday the court ruling that dismantled the parliament's lower chamber on Thursday, saying that the ruling military council does not have the right to implement the verdict.

Saad al-Katatny, former speaker of the dissolved Parliament, rejected the complementary constitutional declaration and the decision to dissolve Parliament, which he deemed unconstitutional, in a meeting with military Chief of Staff Sami Anan on Sunday.

The Muslim Brotherhood has denied Israeli media reports that the group ordered a Hamas-allied Bedouin cell in the Sinai to launch rockets into southern Israel.

The election of Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsy would raise more concerns with Arab Gulf governments than anywhere else in the world, said a former Egyptian Foreign Ministry official Wednesday.

Leading Muslim Brotherhood figure Mahmoud Ezzat said Thursday that he believed the Egyptian people would vote for the Islamist group in both the upcoming presidential runoffs and new parliamentary elections, in a statement to Al-Ahram Arabic language news website.

The Freedom and Justice Party’s presidential candidate Mohamed Morsy “will not allow” a military coup should he win the runoff election, he told Al Jazeera on Wednesday. The military is an arm of the executive branch reporting to the president, he added.

Egypt’s Al-Jihad group on Tuesday announced plans to launch a political arm, ‘the Democratic Jihad Party,’ to back presidential finalist Ahmed Shafiq against Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Mursi in this week’s hotly-contested runoff vote.