A court in Alexandria will decide on 23 December whether the Muslim Brotherhood should be labelled a terrorist group in Egypt.

Mahmoud Amer, head of the Ansar al-Sunna al-Mohamadeya Society in Damanhour, has called for a referendum on the application of Islamic Sharia in Egypt.

Clashes between the Muslim Brotherhood's supporters and opponents broke out close to schools and universities around Cairo on Sunday.

To mark the beginning of the new academic year, loyalists of ousted president Morsi held several small protests in the capital and elsewhere on Sunday.

The Ansar Bayt al-Maqdes and Mujahideen Shura Council broadcasted videos with scenes of what it described as “the military operations in Sinai and the destruction of residential buildings and residents’ properties.”

Clashes between the Muslim Brotherhood's supporters and opponents broke out close to schools and universities around Cairo on Sunday.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has distanced itself from an apology to the nation by one of its senior members.

The Ansar Bayt al-Maqdes and Mujahideen Shura Council broadcasted videos with scenes of what it described as “the military operations in Sinai and the destruction of residential buildings and residents’ properties.”

Jama'a al-Islamiya has accused the 50-member constitutional committee of launching a war aimed at eliminating Islam, pointing to proposed amendments to Article 3 of the Egyptian Constitution.

The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy, that supports ousted President Mohamed Mursi, will hold demonstrations on Tuesday by the United Nations headquarters under the slogan “the coup does not represent Egypt”.

The Hamas government in Gaza on Thursday said that the verdict of an Egyptian military court against five Palestinian fishermen is a “serious” development, demanding the Egyptian authorities reconsider the verdict.

Supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi have called for demonstrations on Friday after security forces raided a pro-Morsi area on the outskirts of Cairo.

Mohamed Ali Beshr, leading Brotherhood figure and former minister of local development, has said that the security authorities at Cairo airport told him he was banned from travel when he was heading for Dubai on Thursday morning.

A delegation from the Salafist Nour party met on Wednesday with the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar Ahmed El-Tayeb.

Younis Makhyoun, head of the Salafist Nour Party, has said that his party would only withdraw from the constituent assembly, which is entrusted with drafting amendments to Egypt’s suspended constitution, if articles addressing “Sharia and the Islamist identity of the state” are jeopardized.

Security forces on Tuesday arrested Muslim Brotherhood spokesperson Gehad Haddad in an apartment in Nasr City. He was accompanied by Hossam Abu Bakr, the former Qalyubiyah governor, and Mahmoud Abu Zeid, a member of the Guidance Office.

Salah Sultan, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood and a member of the National Alliance to Support Legitimacy, offered his apologies to the Egyptian people for making political judgements that were not met with acceptance from part of the Egyptian people.

The North Cairo Criminal Court upheld on Tuesday a decision by the Prosecutor General to freeze assets of prominent Muslim Brotherhood leaders and other Islamist politicians.

Turkish news agency Anadolu has said that according to a source close to deposed President Mohamed Morsy's family, Morsy recently called a member of his family and said that he is hanging on until the last breath and that he is following all that is taking place in the country.

In an abrupt change from its earlier radical position, the ultra-conservative Salafist Nour Party announced it would welcome the Sunni Islamic institution of Al-Azhar having the final say on whether "Islamic identity articles" are included in Egypt's post-30 June constitution or not.

Egypt's only Islamist party in the constitution-drafting body withdrew on Monday from an assembly session, as a dispute escalated over Islamic-related articles in the suspended 2012 constitution that is currently being revised.