CAIRO: Egyptian Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri today held a meeting to discuss the possibility of including victims of Maspero and Mohamed Mahmoud clashes in the category of January 25 Revolution martyrs.
The Egyptian Ministers of Interior, (...)
CAIRO: The misdemeanor court in North Cairo headed by Judge Mohamed al-Sayed today decided to dismiss the appeal presented by defendant Peter Azmi. He earlier was detained for 15 days pending questioning into the charges of insulting the military (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri said he will begin his duties from the Interior Ministry to check on the country's security situation and the ministry's requirements.
He also said in a statement to state TV that no action can be (...)
CAIRO: Newly-appointed Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri said he continued consultations to complete forming a new government on Saturday. The government is expected to be completed tomorrow, Sunday, with the oaths of office taken either Sunday or (...)
CAIRO: Violent clashes broke out between dozens of street vendors in Tahrir Square with bottles, sticks and tea glasses being used, as an altercation started over where vendors were situated.
The popular committees interfered to stop the clashes; (...)
Violence in downtown Cairo stopped after four hours of clashes and protesters returned to Tahrir Square, and the street vendors left the square.
The clashes left seven wounded from birdshot, leaving some in critical condition. Others were wounded (...)
Two unknown groups of people in civilian clothes clashed in Cairo's Tahrir Square and Abdel Moniem Riyad Square Tuesday night, after clashes reportedly broke out following an altercation between street vendors and protestors.
Fifty-nine were (...)
Protesters gained control of all entrances to Tahrir Square following violent clashes with street vendors in Abdel Moneim Square.
Clashes moved to Ramsis Square, near the exit of the October 6 Bridge, where street vendors used Molotov cocktails (...)
CAIRO: Leaders in the Freedom and Justice and Salafi al-Nour parties announced they are ready to hold a governmental coalition in accordance with election results.
The official spokesperson of al-Nour Party Mohamed Said said the initial election (...)
The Egyptian Minister of Interior, Mansour el-Issawy, emphasized that Lieutenant Shenawi, a police officer known as the "eyes hunter" in the media for aiming at protestors eyes during clashes in Cairo's Tahrir Square last week, will be arrested (...)
Dozens of protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square organized a march to support protesters that were wounded in their eyes, placing paper on one of their eyes that read "Good job Pasha.”
The protesters held signs saying, "Egypt, open your eyes. We are (...)
Youm7 learned that Islamic political forces protesting in Tahrir Square rejected a proposed “national salvation government,” which recommended Mohamed el-Baradei hold the premiership.
Sources revealed that the "Liberal Islamists" coalition, which (...)
CAIRO: Islamic organizations position towards Friday's November 25 million-man demonstration varied. Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders and the Islamic group announced they will boycott Friday's million-man demonstration in fear of the postponement of (...)
CAIRO: Tahrir Square demonstrators announced the launch of an initiative, in agreement with other revolutionaries across Egypt's main squares, which includes all their demands and will be printed on a big banner.
The initiative affirmed that (...)
Demonstrators in Tahrir Square gave tear gas canisters to investigators from Public Prosecution who came to collect evidence Wednesday.
Two investigators went to the square to gather evidence, asking protestors how they were shot and collecting (...)
CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) issued a statement regarding the Tahrir incidents, assuring the protesters in Tahrir Square and in different governorates' squares were provoked by the violent assault of the police.
The statement said the (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian Prime Minister and President of the Caretaker Government Essam Sharaf held a meeting on Thursday with the Deputy Prime Minister Ali el-Selmy and the rest of the cabinet members to finish outstanding files prior to forming the new (...)
CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood will not participate in a sit-in in Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square, according to official spokesman Mohamed Ghazlan.
Ghazlan said the attacks against protesters in the square are planned to drag as much as possible (...)
CAIRO: Cairo's prosecution has ordered autopsies to be performed on the bodies of protesters killed over the past three days during violence in the city's iconic Tahrir Square.
The Zeinhoum forensic department is charged with the autopsies and (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf held a meeting including Deputy PM Ali el-Selmy and minister of interior Mansour al-Issawy with Muslim Brotherhood and Salafi representatives discussing el-Selmy's basic constitutional principles (...)
The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) decided to escalate its stance against the Egyptian government after 48 hours of "pacification" to give the government the chance to change a the basic constitutional document to guiding rather than binding document, and (...)
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CAIRO: The Freedom and Justice and al-Nour Parties' sources both affirmed their participation in the million man protest on November 18, despite (...)
Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf said that the government ultimately approved in its last meeting expatriate Egyptians' right to vote, and presented the decree to the military council to approve it.
Sharaf said that the political corruption (...)
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Egyptian newspapers reported Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying the occupying west is seeking to drive a wedge between Egypt and Iran.
Meanwhile, Egypt loses 13 billion US dollars for selling gas to British (...)
Egyptian presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh affirmed his rejection of Ali el-Selmy's document, as it was issued by parties that do not have any democratic legitimacy entitling them to issue such a document, in a statement issued (...)