In Egypt, a scientist claims to have made a fabric that repels mosquitoes. CNN's Reza Sayah with this story from Cairo. ...
10:37 AM, May 28, 2013
Cairo: Ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak will stay in detention despite a judge ordering his release on bail pending a retrial over charges in complicity in the murder of protesters because he still faces other charges, court officials said on Monday. Mubarak, 84, has spent the maximum legal time of two years in detention since being charged with former interior minister Habib al-Adli for their involvement in the killing of...
08:08 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Cairo: Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's retrial was indefinitely adjourned on Saturday after the presiding judge withdrew from the case and referred it to a lower court, triggering angry protests in the courtroom. Judge Mustafa Hassan Abdullah announced his decision to recuse himself minutes after the retrial opened at a Police Academy on the outskirts of Cairo, citing "embarrassment" over the proceedings, according to state-run news agency MENA. Abdullah said...
05:57 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Cairo: One person was killed and more than 80 wounded in clashes at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in central Cairo on Sunday after a funeral service for four Egyptian Christians killed in sectarian violence with Muslims, state media said. Christian-Muslim confrontations have increased in Muslim-majority Egypt since the overthrow of president Hosni Mubarak in 2011 gave freer rein to hard line Islamists repressed under his autocratic rule. The state news...
10:18 AM, Apr 08, 2013
President Barack Obama was greeted with calls of "We love you" when he visited Cairo in his first term, seeking to turn the page on the Bush era with talk of a new beginning for ties between the United States and the Muslim world. Four years on, Egyptians who attended the Cairo University speech feel let down, a view that hardened when Obama, who has had a volatile relationship with...
11:44 AM, Mar 23, 2013
An Egyptian court on Saturday upheld death sentences against 21 convicts of 2012's deadly soccer riot that killed 74 people, and acquitted 28 others, sparking off widespread violence that claimed at least two lives in the deeply polarised country. ...
07:45 AM, Mar 10, 2013
A police station was set on fire in Port Said after protesters clashed with the police. The incident took place when the protesters tried to stop a police car from passing through a blockade. ...
08:58 AM, Mar 03, 2013
The dance by about 400 young men was a rare moment of light-hearted expression of dissent amidst political turmoil that has left dozens dead and hundreds injured. ...
09:56 PM, Mar 02, 2013
The German-manufactured Cairos system uses magnetic fields set up around the goals to determine whether or not the ball has crossed the line in situations where it is not clear to the naked eye. ...
07:38 PM, Feb 25, 2013
The Egypt government has issued an apology after visuals of police beating up a naked man were shown in a video. The visuals show the riot police beating a man and dragging him towards an armoured vehicle. ...
10:15 AM, Feb 03, 2013
The death toll in fierce clashes in Egypt rose to 36 with over 500 injured as fresh violence erupted on Sunday during the funeral of the people killed in the unrest triggered by death sentences given to 21 football fans for a 2012 post-match riot. The bodies, wrapped in white shrouds, were carried in open coffins along the city's main avenue during which a brief burst of gunfire set off...
11:31 PM, Jan 27, 2013
Egyptian protesters scuffled with police in Cairo on January 26 and troops were deployed in Suez after nine people were shot dead in nationwide protests against President Mohamed Mursi, exposing deep rifts two years after Hosni Mubarak was ousted. ...
03:43 PM, Jan 26, 2013
An Egyptian court sentenced 21 people to death on charges related to one of the world's deadliest incidents of soccer violence, which killed 74 mostly teenage fans of Egypt's most popular sports club in 2012. The verdict comes after a day of clashes between security forces and protesters opposed to Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi that left seven dead. ...
03:42 PM, Jan 26, 2013
A military train carrying young recruits to army camp derailed in a Cairo suburb on January 14, killing 17 people and injuring 103, Egypt's health ministry spokesman said. The train was travelling from Upper Egypt to Cairo when it derailed in the Giza neighborhood of Badrashin, a security source said, adding the train was a military vehicle carrying conscripted youth on their way to an army camp. ...
10:25 AM, Jan 15, 2013
A Cairo appeals court on Sunday overturned Hosni Mubarak's life sentence and ordered a retrial of the former Egyptian president for failing to prevent the killing of hundreds of protesters during the 2011 uprising that toppled his regime. ...
02:53 AM, Jan 14, 2013
Cairo: Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak was transferred to a Cairo military hospital, after slipping and injuring his head and chest in prison, a security official said. For months, there have been conflicting reports about the health of the 84-year old Mubarak, who was sentenced in June to life in prison for failing to stop the killing of hundreds of protesters during last year's uprising. He is the first Arab...
03:27 AM, Dec 20, 2012
Cairo: Egyptians voted on Saturday on a constitution promoted by its Islamist backers as the way out of a prolonged political crisis and rejected by opponents as a recipe for further divisions in the Arab world's biggest nation. Queues formed outside polling stations in Cairo and other cities and soldiers joined police to secure the referendum process after deadly protests during the build up. Street brawls again erupted on Friday...
02:38 PM, Dec 15, 2012
Cairo: Masked gunmen attacked opposition protesters camped out at Cairo's Tahrir Square early on Tuesday, firing birdshot at them and wounding nine people, security officials said. The attack stoked tensions just hours ahead of rival mass rallies in the Egyptian capital by supporters and opponents of the country's Islamist president over a disputed draft constitution. The charter has vastly polarized the nation and triggered some of the worst violence since...
07:20 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Cairo: Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi, facing street protests over his attempts to push through a new constitution, will soon authorise the armed forces to help police keep order, the state-run newspaper al-Ahram reported on Saturday. The daily said the cabinet had also approved a legal measure. The armed forces would help 'maintain security and protect vital state institutions' and would be given powers of arrest, but it was not clear...
05:13 PM, Dec 08, 2012
Washington: US President Barack Obama called his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Morsi expressing concern over death of protesters and emphasised on ending violence. "The President emphasised that all political leaders in Egypt should make clear to their supporters that violence is unacceptable," White House said on Thursday after the phone call, noting Obama expressed his deep concern about the deaths and injuries of protesters in Egypt. "He welcomed President Morsi's call...
11:26 AM, Dec 07, 2012
