An estimated 150 persons gathered in Giza Tuesday afternoon to protest the morning ruling that sentenced former president Mohamed Morsi to 20 years in prison, Youm7 reported.

Younger members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt are taking up leadership roles as the movement renews itself despite the widespread jailing of its members, a senior Brotherhood figure told Reuters in Istanbul on Tuesday.

Dokki Misdemeanor Court sentenced, on Tuesday, the Salafi preacher, Mohamed Abdel Maksoud to 3 years in jail, in the lawsuit submitted against him by lawyer Samir Sabry accusing him of inciting violence.

Egypt's Coptic Pope Tawadros II said that his visit to Armenia aims to commemorate the victims of the Armenian genocide at the hands of the Ottoman empire, denying any political connection between his trip and the diplomatic rift between Egypt and Turkey

An Egyptian court sentenced 22 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death on Monday over an attack on a police station in a district outside Cairo in 2013, judicial sources said.

The Cairo Court of Urgent Matters declared in Monday’s session its lack of jurisdiction in the lawsuit filed to designate the 6 April Youth Movement as a terrorist organisation.

A bomb exploded Monday on a van carrying U.N. employees in northern Somalia, killing at least seven people and wounding several others, police and U.N. officials said. Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack.

Egypt's armed forces killed 57 suspected militants in raids it conducted in North Sinai during the past 10 days, the army spokesman announced on Monday.

Egypt condemned the execution of Ethiopians in Libya, as claimed in an Islamic State group (IS) video released Sunday, and called on the international community to “earnestly confront terrorist organizations wherever they are,” in to a Monday Foreign Ministry statement.

The Alexandria Court for Urgent Matters referred a lawsuit accusing Qatar of being a state “supporter of terrorism” to the general prosecution, a step before its referral to the criminal court.

The spiritual leader of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, appeared in court on Sunday wearing for the first time the red prison uniform typically worn by defendants who are going to be executed.

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.