CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced a 17-year-old Christian boy to three years in jail for publishing cartoons on his Facebook page that mocked Islam and the Prophet Mohamed, actions that sparked sectarian violence.
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CAIRO: The head of Egypt's influential seat of Islamic learning, Al-Azhar, called on Tuesday for bold Arab action to stop the Syrian government's "hellish killing machine" while scolding China and Russia for blocking a peace plan in the UN Security (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's government on Wednesday sought to end a strike by thousands of lower ranking police officers demanding better pay and a purge of senior officials linked to Hosni Mubarak's rule, the official news agency said.
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CAIRO: Egypt's government revived an amended version of a 60-year-old anti-corruption law on Wednesday, the state news agency MENA said, in a move that could affect the trial of ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his aides.
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CAIRO: Egyptian state investigators accused a former agriculture minister and a businessman with illegally confiscating land, state media reported on Thursday.
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CAIRO: Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak, on trial for conspiring to kill protesters, will stay in a hospital in Cairo after his first court session ends, Egypt's state news agency MENA said on Wednesday.
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CAIRO: Egypt's appeals court rescinded a ruling to remove the names of ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his wife Suzanne from schools and streets, state news agency MENA reported on Thursday.
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CAIRO: The Giza Criminal Court sentenced a bus driver to death on Wednesday for shooting dead six construction company employees while driving them to work, the official news agency MENA reported.
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