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
Cairo/Jerusalem: Sixteen Egyptian army border guards were killed and seven others injured in an attack by 'jihadists' from inside the Hamas-controlled Gaza strip in a terror strike months after Islamist Mohammed Mursi took over as the country's President. In a dramatic turn of events, the five gunmen involved in the attack were reported killed hours later near the Israeli border, an Israeli army spokesman said. "The bodies of the five...
12:58 PM, Aug 06, 2012
Cairo: Egypt's newly elected President Mohammed Mursi, a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood, still figures on a travel ban list which prevents him from leaving the country as a member of the Islamist group. Despite winning Egypt's first presidential polls after the popular uprising which toppled longtime president Hosni Mubarak, 60-year-old Mursi's name was not removed from the lists of people banned from leaving the country. "The name Mohammed...
12:23 PM, Jul 06, 2012
