Contestants from Iran, Turkey and Qatar have been excluded from Egypt’s International Quran Competition for the Holy Quran, which began Saturday with 100 competitors from 70 states.

President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi received the UK’s Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, Sunday at the Presidential Palace in Heliopolis. The Archbishop of Canterbury’s visit comes as part of the religious leader’s ‘visit of condolence’ to Egypt following the killings of Egyptian Christians earlier this year.

The Islamic State jihadist group on Sunday released a video purportedly showing the executions of some 30 Ethiopian Christians captured in Libya.

A policeman was killed and another injured when an improvised explosive devise (IED) hit an armoured vehicle in Egypt's North Sinai city of Sheikh Zuweid, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Military officials and residents say al-Qaida has taken control of a major airport, a sea port and an oil terminal in southern Yemen after brief clashes with troops.

Security forces killed three suspected militants they accused of complicity in an explosion in North Sinai earlier on Thursday which left a soldier killed and another injured, the armed forces spokesman said.

The committee established to manage the funds of the Muslim Brotherhood confiscated on Thursday a hospital in Alexandria and a school in Cairo, accusing their owners of belonging to the Brotherhood.

Egyptian explosives experts defused a bomb Thursday reportedly planted at a hospital in Sharqiya governorate, northeast of Cairo.

Egypt's Copts are currently celebrating the feast that marks the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred three days after his crucifixion at Calvary on Good Friday.

Security agencies, in coordination with the Armed Forces, have expanded security measures in the east of Arish, Sheikh Zuweid and south and west of Rafah, while military aircrafts hover over the area after the Arish police station was bombed on Sunday, killing six policemen, including the chief detective and civilians.

Al Shabaab Islamist militants attacked a government building housing two ministries in the Somali capital on Tuesday, setting off two big blasts before gunmen stormed inside, killing at least 10 people, police and the rebels said.

Egypt's top court has rejected an appeal by an ultraconservative Islamist and ally of deposed president Mohamed Morsi, upholding his seven-year sentence for forging official documents to run for presidency in 2012, a judicial source has said.

Egypt's foreign ministry has defended a recent rash of death sentences against Islamists accused of violence, slamming western condemnation of the rulings as "flagrant interference" in its judicial system.

Al Shabaab Islamist militants attacked a government building housing two ministries in the Somali capital on Tuesday, setting off two big blasts before gunmen stormed inside, killing at least 10 people, police and the rebels said.

Egypt's Foreign Ministry expressed on Monday its "strong disapproval" of what it described as a Turkish "intervention" in judicial affairs, in the wake of 14 death sentences issued to Muslim Brotherhood leaders and supporters.

Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark Diocese led the Orthodox Easter mass at St. Mark Cathedral in Abassiya Saturday.

An alleged member of the Muslim Brotherhood has been arrested for manufacturing dozens of explosive devices in his apartment in Sheikh Zayed city on the outskirts of Cairo, according to a Monday police statement.

A bomb placed in a garbage bin targeted the Moroccan Embassy in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, early Monday without killing or wounding anyone, in an attack claimed by a local Islamic State affiliate.

Pope Francis on Saturday proclaimed an extraordinary Holy Year starting in December that he said will bring the Roman Catholic Church and its 1.2 billion followers back to basics, focusing them on the need to show mercy toward others.

Nasr City Misdemeanor Court sentenced Mohamed Mahsoub, Mohamed Morsi’s former minister for legal and parliamentarian affairs, to three years in jail Wednesday for fraud, Youm7 reported.

The Islamic concept of “Jihad” has been misused for the alleged goal of establishing an “Islamic caliphate”, while the concept is not meant to impose Islam on others, according to the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Ahmed Al-Tayyeb.