Jerusalem Post newspaper highlighted the phone call between the Egyptian Defense Minister General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and his U.S. counterpart Chuck Hagel last Thursday, in which al-Sisi had said cutting the aid is not the right way to talk to Egypt, and that Washington will lose its influence in the region because of that.

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See, has sent a personal message to the Muslims congratulating them on Eid al-Adha and hoping the best for Egypt.

Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced today that registering Egyptian voters abroad, which is going to last for two months, has started.

An American citizen called James Henry Allen has committed suicide in Ismailia police station after he was arrested in a security crackdown in North Sinai with maps of significant Egyptian facilities.

Police have thwarted a plan to cause traffic paralysis in Cairo's streets after oil spots were found on many bridges around Cairo, causing the road to be very slippy, and was to cause accidents as well as traffic paralysis.

Fifty-member committee to amend 2012 constitution announced it reached an agreement to approve quota for women in the parliamentary elections.

Isaac Ibrahim,‪ researcher for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights,‬ said that kidnapping the Copts for ransom in Minya has became more of a phenomenon.

Father Philopatir Gamil, Coptic priest, said that he wouldn’t have encouraged his people to participate in the demonstrations at Maspero if he had known anything about this massacre, or they would have changed its directory in order to save the people.

"Copts Sweden" have demanded in a statement an immediate investigation into the Maspero massacre and to hold the killers accountable for their crimes.

Egyptian Ministry of Health declared that 28 people were killed and 94 were wounded in yesterday’s clashes as demonstrations turn violent.

Buthina Kamel, anchor at the Egyptian television, said that supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood have attacked her at Dokky, Giza describing her as infidel since she opposes their policies as she was holding the Egyptian flag. Kamel added that the supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, consider holding the Egyptian flag a crime.