The prosecution has detained 83 individuals on charges related to ongoing clashes across the country. Forty-four have been released, while another 56 are to be interrogated within hours, said a judicial source.

Thousands of people turned out on the streets of Port Said on Monday to attend the funerals of the latest victims of violence in the Egyptian city where President Mohamed Morsy has declared a state of emergency, state television images showed.

The National Council for Human Rights has decided to form eight different fact-finding committees to investigate recent clashes in the governorates of Port Said, Ismailia, Suez, Cairo, Alexandria, Beheira, Sharqiya and Gharbiya.

Several thousand protesters are marching to the Sidi Gaber district in Alexandria, Egypt's second largest city, blocking one side of the corniche road, to commemorate the second anniversary of the "Friday of Anger", January 28 2011.

The funeral at Al Mariam Mosque in Port Said was disrupted on Sunday by heavy tear gas shelling reportedly fired from the direction of the nearby army club.

Forty people have been killed and 1,139 injured nationwide in clashes that erupted Thursday, the Health Ministry said in a statement Sunday.

Egypt's pound weakened against the dollar on Sunday, as street violence and deaths added to the political crisis, extending a steady decline at the central bank's foreign exchange auctions since their launch last month.

Suez protesters killed during Friday clashes were shot by live ammunition at close range and in some cases from behind, forensics head Ihsan Kamil Gorgy told Al-Ahram Arabic website Saturday.

Egypt’s National Defense Council said it might consider declaring a state of emergency in areas of violence and called for dialogue with opposition due to the ongoing clashes in several governorates, Minister of Information Salah Abdel-Maksoud said on Saturday.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Guidance Bureau issued strict orders to its administrative offices and the Freedom and Justice Party’s secretariats to adopt the necessary security measures to protect Brotherhood headquarters on 25 January.

The second anniversary of Egypt's 25 January Revolution this Friday comes amid an unprecedentedly charged and polarised political atmosphere. Political parties and movements from across the spectrum – both Islamist and non-Islamist – have made plans for the day ranging from protest rallies and marches to public street-cleaning campaigns.

Two years ago today, Egyptians took to the streets to protest the oppressive regime of former President Hosni Mubarak, demanding bread, freedom and social justice. When protests began on 25 January 2011, there was no intention to topple Mubarak, but the demands quickly grew larger, snowballing over the 18 days of the revolution. The protests were organized over Facebook by youth with no political affiliations.

Pakistani health officials Monday called for infants leaving the country to be issued polio vaccinations at airports after virus samples linked to a southern Pakistani city were discovered in Egypt. Two sewage samples from Cairo were analyzed and found to resemble

A six-year-old girl has accused a 70-year-old man of raping her in his apartment in New Cairo. Prosecutors say the suspect lured the victim into his apartment while she was playing on the stairs and raped her.

Almost two months have passed since the rise of the National Salvation Front (NSF). The front came into being in late November to oppose President Mohamed Morsi's "dictatorial" 22 November decree and unite key figures of Egypt's political opposition against the post-revolution ascendancy of political Islam.

The death toll in the Alexandria building collapse has risen to 28, the Egyptian health ministry has announced

The Egyptian central bank offered $75 million to banks on Thursday at its 11th foreign currency auction

Aside from the political and social discourse and change initiated through the country’s revolution, the event shed global light on the impact of social media

An eight-story apartment building collapsed Wednesday in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, killing at least 25 people

An Egyptian prosecutor says ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his family paid back 18 million Egyptian pounds

Egypt’s newly designated central bank governor says signs of an easing of pressure on the local currency are emerging