Egypt's state prosecutor ordered on Sunday an extremist Islamic preacher detained for questioning on suspicion of insulting religion after a complaint from a Christian activist, a judicial source said.

President Mohamed Morsi has dismissed his advisor on environmental affairs, Khaled Alam El-Din, Sunday. El-Din, who was appointed last August, is a leading member of the Salafist El-Nour Party.

Dozens of Copts marched Sunday from Shubra Square to the High Court complex in downtown Cairo to protest the attack on Mar Girgis Church in Fayoum, video broadcast on Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr showed.

The Free Front for Peaceful Change movement has accused the Muslim Brotherhood of abducting and torturing Ibrahim Hanafi, one of its leading members in the eastern Delta governorate of Sharqiya.

Hamas released a statement on Saturday condemning Egypt’s closure of tunnels with Gaza, saying this renews Israel’s blockade on the strip, reported AFP.

Egyptian authorities have seized a weapons cache in the Sinai desert, a security official said on Sunday, only two days after authorities said they had captured a large stockpile of explosives bound for the restive peninsula.

The Muslim Brotherhood announced Wednesday it will participate in the "Together against Violence" demonstration planned to take place Friday in front of Cairo University.

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Saturday that his Lebanese militant group does not need support from allies in Syria or Iran for any future battle against Israel.

Thousands of members of Tunisia's ruling Islamist party Ennahda on Saturday protested to support their movement's legitimacy and denounce plans for a government of technocrats aimed at resolving a major crisis.

Saint Valentine's is a Christian feast and therefore ''haram'', a sin, according to Egypt's main Salafist movements

The appointment of the Egyptian president's son to a high-paying job at a state-owned company raised accusations on Thursday of nepotism in the country where the unemployment rate hovers at 13 percent and many university graduates are out of work

What is happening in Egypt is not a normal conflict, nor does it represent the divergence of various blocs. It is a profound and vast rift regarding fundamental political issues

The government’s strategy of only appointing Muslim Brotherhood members to political and administrative decisions is a continuation of the oppressive policies of the disbanded National Democratic Party, claimed Nour Party leader Sherif Taha

After a political activist died in prison in Alexandria on Thursday morning, hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the Alexandria prosecutor’s office, chanting slogans against the Muslim Brotherhood and the Interior Ministry

Senior Muslim clerics in Egypt believe Pope Benedict XVI's abrupt resignation could reopen the way for dialogue with the Catholic Church, severed after Benedict's controversial 2006 remarks on the Muslim prophet, AFP reports

Egyptian officials are investigating the death of a French archeologist who was found dead in his Cairo apartment

Egypt's Culture Minister Mohammed Saber Arab backtracked on his resignation and resumed his work on Wednesday, a statement from his ministry said.

Minister of Tourism Hisham Zazou said that the tourism industry is the most affected sector due to events that Egypt is currently witnessing which affect Egypt's image abroad, thus negatively affect numbers of tourists coming to Egypt and cancel of flights.

GAZA: Egyptian forces have flooded smuggling tunnels under the border with the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip in a campaign to shut them down, Egyptian and Palestinian officials said.

Egypt's main agricultural bank is launching Islamic retail services this month to meet increasing demand in rural areas, a bank official told Reuters. "We are launching sharia-compliant retail banking this month with a portfolio of 50 million pounds ($7.5 million) and can raise that to 100 million" next June based on demand, said Abdel Rahman Al-Kafrawi, head of Islamic transactions at Principal Bank for Development and Agricultural Credit (PBDAC).

Shawqi Ibrahim Abdel-Karim Allam is to become Egypt's new Grand Mufti following a vote by members of the Al-Azhar Senior Scholars Authority on Monday. It is first time the Grand Mufti has been chosen in a vote as opposed to being appointed by the president.