The Muslim Brotherhood has called on Arab armies to support Hamas movement in Gaza Strip against Israel which has been raiding the Gaza Strip for a week in response to missiles shot by Hamas.

A Damietta court on Sunday sentenced 101 alleged Muslim Brotherhood supporters to three years in prison on charges including membership in a banned organisation and protesting without a permit.

Prosecutors have renewed the imprisonment of Magdy Qurqur, a spokesman for the National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL), and NASL leader Mohamed Mahmoud Taher, for 15 days pending investigations on charges of joining a banned group, Youm7 reported Monday.

The Egyptian Coast Guard arrested five senior Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya leaders Sunday near the Egypt-Sudan border, said the official army spokesman.

The Church of England was debating whether to allow female bishops for the first time in its history before a vote Monday, which could end half a century of bitter divisions over the role of women.

A few days before he was elected Egypt’s president in May, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi discreetly visited tribesmen living along the border with Libya. Tribal leaders there say Sisi, former head of the army, urged them to help Egypt confront what could be a security nightmare for the biggest Arab nation: Islamist militants operating just over the frontier in Libya.

A court in Nile Delta's Damietta city has sentenced 101 supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi to three years in prison on charges of illegal gathering and rioting.

A Cairo court has accepted the appeal presented by ex-prime minster Hisham Qandil and reversed his one-year jail sentence.

An Egyptian court sentenced on Sunday 101 "supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood" to three years in prison on several charges including vandalism and belonging to a banned group.

Yanair News gate Saturday published new information about the arrest of 11 youth on terrorism charges in Beheira Governorate last week, and challenged police accounts of the details of the suspects’ arrests and charges.

Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb appointed Hany Helmy Azer as an adviser for transport affairs. Azer had supervised the construction of Berlin Hauptbahnhof train station in Germany as well as the Tiergarten tunnel in 1994.

Al-Azhar's highest cleric has condemned what he described as brutal and barbaric Israeli assaults against Gaza.

A committee managing the Muslim Brotherhood's funds has asked Egypt's prosecutor general to interrogate 737 Brotherhood members on charges of funding a "terrorist" group.

Two shipments of stolen Egyptian artefacts spanning the eras of the pharaohs and the Mamluks have been returned to Egypt, thanks to efforts from diplomatic officials.

Cairo Criminal Court adjourned on Wednesday trial of deposed President Mohamed Morsy and other 35 suspects affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood over spying for foreign authorities and disclosing secrets of Egyptian national security to 17 August to include a report by the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA).

Damietta Prosecution ordered on Wednesday to remand 19 members and supporters of Muslim Brotherhood for 15 days into custody over the formation of a terrorist cell in the governorate.

The Alexandria Misdemeanour Court sentenced 50 supporters of former president Mohamed Morsi Tuesday to five years imprisonment and an EGP 20,000 fine for violating the Protest Law, according to state owned MENA.

The terrorist Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis distributed flyers on Tuesday inciting against armed forces and calling for support throughout several villages south of Sheikh Zuwaid, North Sinai.

An Alexandria court sentenced on Tuesday 50 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to five years in jail with labor after they had been convicted of rioting and breaking the protest law.

A prominent Jamaa al-Islamiya leader said Egypt will only be at peace if justice is established. "Terrorist acts will disappear if public freedoms, the rule of law and justice are established," said Jamaa al-Islamiya spokesperson Safwat Abdel Ghany. "The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is like other armed organizations that appear when tyranny and oppression dominate."

Egyptian authorities arrested Yehia Ghozlan, the son of the Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Mahmoud Ghozlan, late on Monday as he took photos of his detained brother during his transfer to prison following trial.