The Muslim Brotherhood movement of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi will spurn an offer to join a new interim government, a spokesman for the Islamist group said on Wednesday.

A senior figure in ousted President Mohamed Morsy's Muslim Brotherhood met the European Union's foreign affairs chief in Cairo on Wednesday and said Brussels had offered no proposal that could resolve Egypt's political crisis.

Egypt's general prosecution has ordered the arrest of Essam Sultan, former MP and leading member of the Islamist Wasat Party, on charges of insulting the judiciary.

Giza Prosecution renewed the detention of Salafi Rayah Party leader Hazem Salah Abu Ismail and other Islamist figures for 15 days pending investigations into charges of murder, attempted murder and intimidation of citizens during the Bein al-Sarayat clashes.

The Egyptian Student Union (ESU) – which represents student unions in Egyptian universities nationwide – condemned a statement by Muslim Brotherhood students claiming to represent the position of all Egyptian students regarding recent political events.

Fatah spokesperson Ahmed Assaf has said that the live broadcast of the Hamas-owned Al-Quds and Al-Aqsa channels from Rabaa al-Adaweya Square east of Cairo amounts to interference in Egypt’s internal affairs.

Egypt's Public Prosecution has defended measures taken against the Muslim Brotherhood in the wake of President Mohamed Morsy's overthrow on 3 July, claiming in a Monday statement procedures had been carried out in full accordance with the law.

The Salafist Nour Party has complained that most of Egypt's proposed new cabinet members belong to a specific political current and have party affiliations.

Egypt’s prosecutor-general Hisham Barakat ordered the Public Funds Authority on Tuesday to investigate allegations filed against leading Muslim Brotherhood members that they received gifts from the U.S. and Qatar without legal ground.

Supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi, who have been holding a sit-in at north Cairo’s Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque since 28 June, announced that they would hold two marches on Sunday night.

Prosecutors have ordered the detention of former Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Mahdi Akef for four days.

A senior US official flew into Cairo early Monday, hours after Egypt's prosecutor ordered the freezing of assets belonging to 14 top Islamists.

The Muslim Brotherhood has denied any negotiations with the military leadership as the group and its Islamist allies continue their protests denouncing the removal of Mohamed Morsy from the presidency by the army two weeks ago.

An Egyptian court sentenced Islamist preacher Ahmed Abdullah, known as Abu Islam, to three years in prison on Monday for insulting Christianity.

Unknown armed assailants opened fire on a security checkpoint in Arish’s Sheikh Zuweid neighborhood in the Sinai Peninsula on Sunday.

The Hamas Prime Minister of Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, discussed Palestinian prisoners with Egyptian intelligence in a phone call Saturday night.

Pro-Morsi students organised a press conference at Rabaa Al-Adaweya on Sunday in parallel to the General Conference of the Egypt Student Union (ESU,) to demand recognition of the 8 July Republican Guard clashes

Egyptian prosecutors have frozen the assets of senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders and other prominent Islamists as part of investigations into the incitement of violence at protests.

A man seriously injured in clashes on Friday 5 July has died of his wounds, according to a statement released by the Tamarod campaign on Saturday. This latest death brings the death toll following clashes on the 6th October Bridge to four.

Egypt’s authorities thwarted an attempt to smuggle a container that included army uniforms and empty gun shells from China on Sunday.

More demonstrators flocked to the sit-in at Cairo's Rabaa al-Adaweya Mosque on Thursday in preparation for a million-man demonstration on Friday which the National Coalition for Supporting Legitimacy called for.