Egypt's Public Prosecution has defended measures taken against the Muslim Brotherhood in the wake of President Mohamed Morsy's overthrow on 3 July, claiming in a Monday statement procedures had been carried out in full accordance with the law.

The Salafist Nour Party has complained that most of Egypt's proposed new cabinet members belong to a specific political current and have party affiliations.

Egypt’s prosecutor-general Hisham Barakat ordered the Public Funds Authority on Tuesday to investigate allegations filed against leading Muslim Brotherhood members that they received gifts from the U.S. and Qatar without legal ground.

Supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi, who have been holding a sit-in at north Cairo’s Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque since 28 June, announced that they would hold two marches on Sunday night.

Prosecutors have ordered the detention of former Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Mahdi Akef for four days.

A senior US official flew into Cairo early Monday, hours after Egypt's prosecutor ordered the freezing of assets belonging to 14 top Islamists.

The Muslim Brotherhood has denied any negotiations with the military leadership as the group and its Islamist allies continue their protests denouncing the removal of Mohamed Morsy from the presidency by the army two weeks ago.

An Egyptian court sentenced Islamist preacher Ahmed Abdullah, known as Abu Islam, to three years in prison on Monday for insulting Christianity.

Unknown armed assailants opened fire on a security checkpoint in Arish’s Sheikh Zuweid neighborhood in the Sinai Peninsula on Sunday.

The Hamas Prime Minister of Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, discussed Palestinian prisoners with Egyptian intelligence in a phone call Saturday night.

Pro-Morsi students organised a press conference at Rabaa Al-Adaweya on Sunday in parallel to the General Conference of the Egypt Student Union (ESU,) to demand recognition of the 8 July Republican Guard clashes

Egyptian prosecutors have frozen the assets of senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders and other prominent Islamists as part of investigations into the incitement of violence at protests.

A man seriously injured in clashes on Friday 5 July has died of his wounds, according to a statement released by the Tamarod campaign on Saturday. This latest death brings the death toll following clashes on the 6th October Bridge to four.

Egypt’s authorities thwarted an attempt to smuggle a container that included army uniforms and empty gun shells from China on Sunday.

More demonstrators flocked to the sit-in at Cairo's Rabaa al-Adaweya Mosque on Thursday in preparation for a million-man demonstration on Friday which the National Coalition for Supporting Legitimacy called for.

The Brotherhood Without Violence movement, founded by a number of young Muslim Brotherhood members, has proposed to stop violence in exchange for the release of Mohamed Morsy, Hazem Abu Ismail, and all Brotherhood leaders.

A Coptic Christian man was found decapitated on Thursday in Egypt's Sinai peninsula five days after he was kidnappped by gunmen, security officials and witnesses told AFP.

Prosecutors will investigate allegations that Egypt's ousted president escaped from prison during the 2011 revolution with help from the Palestinian militant group Hamas, officials said Thursday.

The Brotherhood is planning three consecutive Fridays of large scale protests in Cairo to build pressure on the military.

Egypt’s Public Prosecution ordered on Wednesday the arrest and interrogation of Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie over accusations of inciting violence during clashes outside the Republican Guard headquarters on Monday, which left 59 dead

A new Islamist alliance consisted of ousted President Mohamed Mursi‘s supporters and goes by the name the "National Coalition to Support legitimacy" has organized a march for Wednesday.