CAIRO: Egypt's election commission has confirmed that the mother of a popular Islamist presidential hopeful was an American citizen, effectively disqualifying him from the race and likely boosting the chances of the Muslim Brotherhood's (...)
CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood has named its chief strategist and financier as a candidate for president, a surprising reversal of an earlier pledge to stay out of the race and a move that sets the group on a collision course with Egypt's military (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has postponed an open confrontation with the country's military rulers and other political players by delaying a decision about whether to field a candidate for the first presidential elections since the ouster of (...)
CAIRO: Across Egypt, long lines of cars and trucks snake around the corner from gas stations, drivers spend the night in their vehicles waiting for fuel at the pumps, and gas stations attendants complain of receiving only half their usual quantity (...)
WADI NATROUN: Pope Shenouda III, a giant figure for 40 years at the helm of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, has been laid to rest in a desert monastery after a moving funeral Mass at a Cairo cathedral attended by tens of thousands.
Shenouda's (...)
CAIRO: At the last Christmas service he presided over, Pope Shenouda III praised the unusual guests seated among the faithful at his Cairo cathedral: Leaders from the conservative Muslim Brotherhood, generals from the ruling military.
"For the (...)
CAIRO: Officials and witnesses say a gang of robbers has attacked villagers in southern Egypt after being surprised by police while trying to steal railroad tracks for scrap metal.
They spoke Tuesday describing one of a number of incidents (...)
BENGHAZI: A large map of Libya hangs on the wall in the home of Idris Al-Rahel, with a line down the middle dividing the country in half.
Al-Rahel, a former army officer, leads a movement to declare virtual autonomy in eastern Libya, where most (...)
CAIRO: Scores of Egyptian soccer fans were crushed to death while others were fatally stabbed or suffocated after being trapped in a long narrow corridor trying to flee rival fans armed with knives, clubs and stones, in the country's worst ever (...)
CAIRO: The United States and Israel plotted the killing of Egyptian protesters during last year's 18-day uprising that toppled longtime leader Hosni Mubarak, a lawyer for his former interior minister claimed Thursday.
Lawyer Mohamed El-Gendi also (...)
CAIRO: Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians have marked the first anniversary of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak with rallies in major squares across Egypt that turned into a show of strength by secular groups in their competition with the (...)
CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood is trying to maneuver its way between its fierce anti-Israel ideology and the realities of governing as it ascends to leadership in Egypt for the first time in its history and faces the key question of how to deal with (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's ultraconservative Islamist party has reached out to rival secular and liberal political factions in an unusual, behind-the-scenes attempt to unify their ranks and counter the Muslim Brotherhood's power in the country's new (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday it had told Israel that it would not be "appropriate" for Israeli pilgrims to make an annual visit to the tomb of a 19th-century Jewish holy man in the Nile Delta, as activists mobilized to block the (...)
CAIRO: The ruling military escalated its tone against pro-democracy activists Wednesday, warning of an attempt to "topple the state," as government media said a plot had been uncovered to use upcoming protests to throw the country into a civil (...)
CAIRO: Troops pulled women across the pavement by their hair, knocking off their Muslim headscarves. Young activists were kicked in the head until they lay motionless in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
Unfazed by TV cameras catching every move, Egypt's (...)
CAIRO: Egyptians in nine provinces voted Wednesday in the second round of the first parliamentary elections since a popular uprising ousted President Hosni Mubarak in February.
Dozens of people waited in line outside a polling station in a school (...)
CAIRO: Islamists are dominating Egypt's elections and some of them have a new message for tourists: welcome, but no booze, bikinis or mixed bathing at beaches, please.
That vision of turning Egypt into a sin-free vacation spot could spell doom (...)
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group set to dominate the new parliament, has accused the country's military rulers of trying to undercut the authority of elected legislators even before the house is seated.
The Brotherhood (...)
CAIRO: The leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said Tuesday he is prepared to compromise with the ruling military on the formation of a new government, and that fears of the "Islamization" of the country are overblown.
Mohamed Badie, the (...)
ASSIUT, Egypt — Ahead of elections, Egypt's Coptic Church discreetly told followers to vote for an alliance of leftist and liberal parties sponsored by a Christian tycoon. The move by a Church normally wary of inserting itself into politics showed (...)
CAIRO: A security official says about 80 people were hurt when clashes erupted between protesters and angry street vendors at Cairo's Tahrir Square.
The violence broke out after polls closed on Tuesday night following the first two days of voting (...)
CAIRO: On the eve of landmark elections, Egypt's military ruler warned Sunday of "extremely grave" consequences if the turbulent nation does not pull through its current crisis — an attempt to rally the public behind his council of generals in the (...)
CAIRO — Egypt's military rulers said Thursday that parliamentary elections starting next week will he held on schedule despite spreading unrest.
The military also rejected protesters' demands that it immediately step down, saying that doing so (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian officials say a court has ordered the release of three American students arrested this week during the unrest in Cairo.
An Egyptian official said Thursday the three who attend the American University in Cairo were arrested on the (...)