Representatives from revolutionary movements filed a complaint against former Defense Minister Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi and former military Chief of Staff Sami Anan on Tuesday, accusing them of murder and attempted murder during the clashes at Maspero, on Mohamed Mahmoud Street, and in front of the Cabinet building.
The Shura Council (the upper, consultative house of Egypt's parliament) announced new appointments on Tuesday to Egypt's Supreme Press Council.
Workers from the Nasr Automotive, Ideal and Steam Boilers factories on Tuesday staged protests outside the presidential palace in Cairo, demanding early pensions and profit shares.
Prime Minister Hesham Qandil denied on Tuesday reports that the US would drop US$1 billion from the country’s debt load. He also denied that the International Monetary Fund stipulated that Egypt float the pound as a condition for its requested US$4.8 billion loan.
Egypt's former culture minister Farouk Hosni is to stand trial on charges of making illicit gains, an official said on Tuesday.
Of the 10 governors appointed by President Mohammed Morsi on Tuesday, four are Muslim Brotherhood members and three are former army generals.
The Obama administration is sending to Cairo this weekend the largest ever U.S. trade delegation
Egyptian authorities have ordered the cancellation of Jewish New Year and Yom Kippur celebrations
Gunmen attacked an army post in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Tuesday, a day after tanks were withdrawn from the area, a senior security official said.
El Sawy Culture Wheel, a cultural center in Zamalek, is hosting Satanists, according to a complaint filed by a Freedom and Justice Party lawyer with the Interior Ministry.
The Egyptian Navy on Sunday denied recent claims by the Israeli media that the German government had called off plans to sell Egypt a pair of submarines due to pressure by the Tel Aviv regime.
The Supreme Constitutional Court will delay consideration of a lawsuit demanding the dissolution of the upper house of Parliament until a report by the court’s commissioners is completed on 17 September.
The Interior Ministry is preparing to launch a satellite channel to communicate with citizens, the interior minister said Sunday.
Ezz El-Din El-Komy, secretary general of the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), stated on Monday that Parliament's upper chamber, the Shura Council, will announce the names of nominees for council membership on Tuesday.
Egypt’s legendary football coach Mahmoud El-Gohary has died in Amman aged 74. The former Egypt, Ahly and Zamalek coach had been in a critical condition since suffering a stroke on Saturday.
Head of Cairo Criminal Court Mostafa al-Komy decided Monday to continue the detainment of Gamal Eddin Abdel Aziz, the secretary of former President Hosni Mubarak, for another 45 days pending investigations into charges of graft and abuse of power.
With more uncertainty surrounding the future of press freedom in the Muslim Brotherhood-led political order, journalists have yet to consolidate a collective response, with divergent outlooks and a divided syndicate standing as obstacles.
Against the backdrop of the lavish Nile City Towers, along the banks of the Nile River in Cairo, in an empty plot of land surrounded by shacks stood dozens of residents of Ramlet Boulaq neighbourhood for an open air conference Sunday.
Bahrain recalled Iranian chargé d'affaires Mahdy Islamy on Saturday to officially protest official Iranian television's distortions of President Mohamed Morsy's speech at the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran last week.
The situation in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula remains tense. For now, the army seems to have slowed down its advance on alleged terrorist hangouts, pending negotiations with army chiefs. But the political overtones of the security dilemma are becoming harder to decipher.
Demands raised this week by Islamists in the Constituent Assembly, which is drafting the new Egyptian constitution, for placing the Church's funds under state financial control were categorically rejected by church leaders and Copts at large. Anba Pakhomious, Acting Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, condemned the action of Salafist groups. "The mere submission of such a proposal is totally unacceptable, and if it is approved, this proposal has only one meaning, that Copts are clearly persecuted." He added that the church will not accept the monitoring of its money or donations by any entity, and should not pay taxes to the state because all its activities fall within the provision of the needs of orphans and needy Copts, and therefore the state cannot claim taxes because they are not investment projects.
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The Light of the Desert-Documentary on St Macarius Monastery, Egypt