To counter claims that top militant figure Shadi El-Menei is still alive, Egypt's Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim has confirmed the news of his killing, state news agency MENA reported late on Monday.

Pope Francis has visited the most important holy sites for Muslims and Jews in Jerusalem's Old City on the final day of his Middle East tour.

The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy issued a statement on Monday saying that a huge number of Egyptians have boycotted the first day of the presidential elections in protest at the "military takeover."

Extremist Islamist group Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis has denied reports that one of its leading figures, Shadi Al-Menei has been killed in a military operation in Sinai.

Security forces used teargas to disperse dozens of supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi who attempted to prevent voters from casting their ballots in the town of Kerdasa, located south of Greater Cairo, Al-Ahram's Arabic news website reported.

The influential Qatar-based Muslim cleric Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi on Sunday called on Egyptians to boycott presidential elections and shun front-runner Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, saying the former army chief had "disobeyed God".

The Cairo Criminal Court postponed on Sunday the trial of renowned activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah and 24 others to 11 June.

"We are not pleased that Egypt has deviated from the path of democracy," Amir Abdollahian said, addressing a Q&A meeting in Tehran University on Sunday.

A judicial disciplinary body in Egypt has suspended 16 judges pending a probe on their affiliation to a group with alleged links to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, Reuters' Aswat Masriya reported on Sunday

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.

The Egyptian cabinet passed on Thursday a law presented by the interim president to annul the pardon decrees issued by ousted president Mohamed Morsi during his tenure.

The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL), which backs deposed President Mohamed Morsy, said the International Criminal Court accepted its lawsuit accusing the Egyptian authorities of war crimes during the dispersal of the Brotherhood sit-ins in August 2013, noting that the court would officially announce it in a few days.

Libya’s Karama battle, led by General Khalifa Haftar, caused controversy over the relations between the happenings in Libya and the ousting of former President Mohamed Morsi in Egypt. Many people believe that Egypt’s June 30 inspired the former military leader Haftar to adopt hostile position against the Islamists.

The Mansoura Criminal Court handed down 54 life sentences to alleged Muslim Brotherhood members Wednesday in a mass trial over charges of joining a terrorist group, rioting and committing acts of violence.

The police closed off the intersection between al-Nahda and Mourad streets leading to Giza Square to traffic on Thursday following clashes with Cairo University pro-Muslim Brotherhood students.

Six "extremists" were killed in an air strike in North Sinai on Tuesday, security sources told Aswat Masriya.

The Supreme State Security Criminal Court adjourned Sunday the trial of 26 suspects in the Nasr City terrorist cell case to June 4 to continue hearing the defense team.

While the Muslim Brotherhood's old guard doggedly call for peaceful resistance from their Egyptian courtroom cages, some youth members are seriously considering forceful retaliation against a state crackdown on their movement.

Mansoura University Brotherhood students on Wednesday set fire to an armored security vehicle with Molotov cocktails to protest prison sentences against 155 Brotherhood members that ranged between one year to life imprisonment.

Mansoura governorate's criminal court sentenced Wednesday 54 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to life imprisonment on conviction of incitement to violence and murder, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.