Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II said on Sunday that the church would not support either candidate in the country's upcoming presidential race.

Sources close to the Muslim Brotherhood said that Qatar has started carrying out the Riyadh agreement which stipulates the country must expel the Brotherhood figures, adding that some of them has already left Doha.

"Yes. Just like this," El Sisi said in answering a question by Ibrahim Issa on whether people should vote for him for president on the basis that he will finish the muslim brotherhood as a group.

A radical Islamist group claimed responsibility on Sunday for two suicide bombings which killed a soldier and wounded at least eight other people near the Egyptian tourist city of Sharm El-Sheikh on Friday.

More than 100 supporters of Egypt's deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi were sentenced to ten years in jail on Saturday on charges of killing and inciting violence, judicial sources said.

Conservative Salafi party Al-Nour Party announced it would back former military chief Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in upcoming presidential elections.

Beit el-Senary in Cairo held an open day Saturday under the slogan “Coptic heritage between reality and hope” to celebrate International Day for Monuments and Sites.

A report issued by the U.S. Department on State on April 30 that details the state of terrorism around the world says that Egypt’s current struggle against terrorism related activities in the Sinai and other parts of the country is being met with some success.

An Egyptian Christian woman mourns the death of an eight-year old Christian girl who was killed, along with three others, by Islamist gunmen as they were waiting outside a church for a wedding to begin.

Sectarian clashes between Muslims and Christians have broken out in towns around Assiut, a city of 400,000 in central Egypt.

The International Criminal Court said on Thursday it had rejected a bid by the Muslim Brotherhood of deposed president Mohamed Morsi to probe the military’s alleged crimes against humanity in Egypt.

Head of Cairo University Gaber Nassar has banned 173 students from taking their final exams due to alleged links to violent clashes at the university, Al-Ahram's Arabic news website reported.

The European Union, Germany and Human Rights Watch expressed their concern and condemnation Tuesday for the handing down of 683 preliminary death sentences and ratification of 37 other death sentences on Monday.

North Cairo Criminal Court adjourned the trial of ousted President Mohamed Morsi and others to May 8 over charges in the Wadi al-Natrun prison break during the January 35 Revolution

Ismailia Court of Misdemeanors on Wednesday acquitted five Brotherhood members of alleged rioting and violence in Ismailia.

Muslim Brotherhood top leader Mohamed Badie and 19 others were sentenced to one year in prison on Wednesday for insulting the court in the Wadi al-Natroon prison break case.

Magdi Hegazy, the health ministry's undersecretary in Daqahliya, said that three policemen were injured in clashes that took place at Mansoura University between security forces and Brotherhood students.

Muslim Brotherhood top leader Mohamed Badie and 19 others were sentenced to one year in prison on Wednesday for insulting the court in the Wadi al-Natroon prison break case.

Sheikh Khalef Massoud used to draw about 250 people when he first started preaching in the poor Cairo neighborhood of Imbaba in 2007.

A Muslim Brotherhood supporter was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Damietta on Monday in a demonstration denouncing death sentences announced earlier, security sources said.

The United Nations and Washington have condemned death sentences handed to 683 alleged Islamists including Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie in an Egyptian court.