Vice-Chief of the Salafi Dawa Yasser Borhamy has issued a religious edict, saying that Muslims are forbidden from watching football matches in the World Cup as it could be seen as admiring disbelievers.

Cairo Criminal Court adjourned on Sunday trial of toppled President Mohamed Morsy and other 130 suspects affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood over prison break charges to 28 June.

Cairo's Court for Urgent Matters sentenced three persons to life imprisonment on Sunday on charges of founding and belonging to an illegal terror cell with aims of overthrowing the government.

Egyptian security forces have seized supermarket chains owned by two leading figures of the Muslim Brotherhood as part of the government's crackdown against the banned organisation, judicial and security sources told Reuters on Sunday.

The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL) has called on supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi to continue protesting in preparation for what they call the "uprising of 3 July 2014."

The expansion of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) into Iraqi cities has been one of the most eye-catching events in the Middle East this week.

The Muslim Brotherhood-led National Alliance to Support Legitimacy has called for a new week of protests against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who removed former leader Mohamed Morsy from office in 2013.

Egypt's wealthiest businessman, Nassef Sawiris, announced on Wednesday the formation of Nile Holding Investments (NHI), a private investment vehicle with the aim of investing in Egypt's growth.

The usually bustling streets of Baghdad were quiet on Thursday and business almost at a halt as stunned residents feared the imminent arrival in the capital of bands of Islamist militants.

On Wednesday, Cairo Criminal Court postponed the trial of deposed President Mohamed Morsy and 14 others to 22 June. The defendants, including seven fugitives, are charged with causing the death and injury of protesters outside Ettehadiya presidential palace on 5 December 2012.

A former Muslim Brotherhood leader has warned that government oppression in Egypt is fanning militancy that will pose a threat abroad unless the army-backed authorities start respecting freedom and human rights.

Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb will speak about the concept of tolerance in Islam at the opening of the World Cup in Brazil on Thursday at 9pm.

During his June 8 inaugural address, Egypt’s new president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, paid tribute to the role of Coptic Christians in national life.

Egypt's ultra-conservative Islamist Al Nour party is voicing interest in joining President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's new government as part of a strategy to replace the banned Moslem Brotherhood as the country's most influential Islamist movement.

Cairo Criminal Court adjourned the trial of ousted President Mohamed Morsi and 14 other co-defendants who are accused of killing and inciting murder against protesters at Ithadeya Palace to June 11, according to Youm7.

Head of Egypt’s Salafist Nour Party, Younis Makhioun, said he expects his party to win the same percentage of parliamentary seats it did in 2012 -- nearly 24% of the total.

An Egyptian court sentenced on Monday eight alleged supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to five years in prison in relation to violence that erupted last November.

On Monday, Alexandria Criminal Court released police officer Abdel Rahman Al-Shimy of the former State Security Apparatus after an appeals court accepted his life sentence appeal.

An Egyptian court sentenced on Monday eight alleged supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to five years in prison in relation to violence that erupted last November.

An Egyptian court sentenced on Monday 112 alleged supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to one year in prison in relation to the violence that erupted on third anniversary of the January uprising.

Pro-Muslim Brotherhood students at Al-Azhar University in Nasr City, Cairo, protested Sunday against the inauguration Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as new president of Egypt.