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
An Egyptian court on Wednesday overturned President Muhammed Mursi's decree that had called for parliamentary elections from April 22, questioning its constitutionality, a ruling that may deepen the political crisis in the polarised country. ...
04:26 AM, Mar 07, 2013
Ahead of Egyptian President Mohammad Mursi's maiden visit to India, a senior minister discussed ways to advance bilateral economic, trade and investment ties and opening up new avenues of commercial exchanges. ...
10:40 PM, Mar 04, 2013
The retrial of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak, his sons and top aides will begin next month, an Egyptian court said on Sunday, ordering the politically-fraught hearings over the killing of protesters to start just nine days before elections. ...
03:32 AM, Mar 04, 2013
Hosni Mubarak, serving a life-term for his role in the killing of Egyptian protesters during the revolution that toppled his nearly three decade-long dictatorial regime, will face a retrial from April 13, 2013. ...
06:54 PM, Mar 03, 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 terror lasted less than two minutes. Smoke poured from a hot air balloon carrying sightseers on a sunrise flight over the ancient city of Luxor, it burst in a flash of flame and then plummeted about 1,000 feet to earth. ...
06:40 AM, Feb 27, 2013
An Egyptian security official said at least 19 foreign tourists were killed as their hot air balloon crashed near the famed ancient city of Luxor. The casualties included French, British and other nationals. ...
01:22 PM, Feb 26, 2013
A court in Egypt has ordered a TV channel that airs belly dancing clips off the air for showing "sexually explicit" content and operating without a broadcast license. ...
04:27 AM, Feb 17, 2013
An Egyptian rights group and the nation's telecommunication's ministry have filed appeals to reverse a court order to block YouTube. ...
02:40 AM, Feb 17, 2013
In an astonishing discovery, a British man found that a stuffed cat in his dusty attic which he assumed to be a bizarre antique is actually a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy. Robert Gray of Portscatho, Cornwall, who owns a bed and breakfast took the ancient artifact in his attic for an x-ray, where images revealed the outline of a perfectly preserved ancient cat - complete with face, ears, spine and brain....
01:23 PM, Feb 15, 2013
Egypt's telecommunication authority said that all Google services must be shut down to fully suspend YouTube in the country over an anti-Muslim film. ...
11:59 AM, Feb 13, 2013
Egypt's telecommunication authority on Tuesday said that all Google services must be shut down to fully suspend YouTube in the country over an anti-Muslim film. Head of Egypt's National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority Abdal-Rahamn al-Sawi said that in order to shut dwon YouTube in Egypt, as per a court verdict, all Google services must be shut down along as Google provides its services over several servers. ...
03:59 AM, Feb 13, 2013
An Egyptian court ordered the suspension of online video service YouTube for a month on Saturday for broadcasting a film insulting the Prophet Mohammad, state media reported. ...
12:21 AM, Feb 10, 2013
Iran's president on Wednesday offered to help rescue Egypt's failing economy with a "big credit line," another sign of improving relations between two regional powers after a freeze of more than three decades. ...
03:45 AM, Feb 07, 2013
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Cairo on Tuesday, the first by an Iranian leader in more than three decades, highlights efforts by Egypt's Islamist leader to thaw long frigid ties between the two regional heavyweights. ...
06:51 AM, Feb 06, 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
After eight days of protests that killed nearly 60 people, a video of one demonstrator stripped naked, dragged across the ground and beaten with truncheons by helmeted riot police has fired Egyptians to a new level of outrage. ...
07:49 PM, Feb 02, 2013
Protesters denouncing Egypt's Islamist president hurled stones and firebombs through the gates of his palace gates on Friday, clashing with security forces who fired tear gas and water cannons, as more than a week of political violence came to Mohammed Morsi's symbolic doorstep for the first time. ...
06:22 AM, Feb 02, 2013
