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Cairo — An Egyptian court has cleared two policemen of killing protesters during last year's uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak. The two officers from Cairo's populous el-Darb el-Ahmar district were charged with killing five protesters and injuring seven during a demonstration against Mubarak's regime on 28 January 2011, when tens of thousands took to the streets. The day, dubbed the
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Cairo - Egyptian authorities have confiscated trucks carrying explosive warheads and a variety of small arms ammunition smuggled from Libya, the interior minister said on Wednesday. A flood of weapons from its western neighbour has added to Egypt's security concerns as police have yet to fully return to their duties since last year's uprising. Smuggled weapons often fall into the
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Protesters clashed with police in the Egyptian capital on on Monday leaving dozens injured on the first anniversary of street battles that left 45 demonstrators dead, witnesses said. The clashes erupted when protesters tried to destroy a concrete barrier security forces had put up to end last year's fighting with activists who wanted the then military rulers to transfer power
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Forty-seven nursery school children were killed on Saturday when a train ploughed into their bus in the central Egyptian province of Assiut, governor Yehya Keshk said. "The deaths have now reached 47. There are 13 children injured," Keshk told state television. The bus, which was taking 60 children on a trip organised by their nursery, was struck on a railway
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Several Egyptian politicians, officials and public figures welcomed on Sunday the appointment of Bishop Tawadros as the new Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church. They praised the electoral process of the 118th Coptic Pope, adding that challenging responsibilities await him. Prime Minister Hisham Kandil congratulated on Facebook all Copts for the election of Pope Tawadros. Kandil pointed to the importance
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Cairo - Egyptian officials say United States Central Intelligence Director David Petraeus is in Cairo for security talks. They say Petraeus arrived on Wednesday, leading a US delegation that will meet with top Egyptian security officials to exchange information about combating terrorism. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to reporters. A US
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Egypt's Coptic Christians voted on Monday for a new leader to succeed Pope Shenuda III, who died in March leaving behind a community anxious about its status under an Islamist-led government. Nearly 2,500 eligible voters made up of Coptic public officials, MPs, journalists, local councillors were casting their ballots in Cairo's St Mark's Cathedral, seat of the Coptic papacy, to
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Cairo - A man suspected of links to the deadly attack on the US Consulate was a Libyan national who turned his rented apartment into a small weapons cache before he died, an Egyptian security official said on Thursday. The suspect identified as 35-year-old Karim el-Azizi detonated an explosive device on Wednesday after briefly exchanging gunfire with security forces that
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A number of political opposition and activist groups have called for a demonstration in Tahrir Square in Egypt's capital, Cairo, on October 19. Protesters are expected to march from various areas in the city including the Mohandiseen, Shubra and Sayyeda Zeinab districts to Tahrir Square during the course of the day. The Tahrir Square gathering is expected to begin after
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Cairo - Egypt's new president backed down on Saturday from his decision to remove the country's top prosecutor, keeping him in his post and sidestepping a potential clash with the country's powerful judiciary. The two-day standoff between President Mohammed Morsi and Prosecutor General Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud escalated with a backlash from a powerful group of judges who said Morsi's move had
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Egypt's state prosecutor Abdel Meguid Mahmud and President Mohamed Morsi agreed on Saturday that Mahmud will stay, ending a crisis over his refusal to quit after being dismissed, an aide to the prosecutor said. State television reported that the two met and sealed an agreement under which "the state prosecutor will stay on in his post," said deputy state prosecutor
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Cairo - The leader of al-Qaeda has urged Muslims to wage holy war against the United States and Israel over a film that insulted Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Ayman al-Zawahri praised as "honest and zealous" demonstrators who breached the US Embassy in Cairo and attackers who stormed the US "embassy" in Benghazi in violence linked to the film. The American ambassador
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President Mohamed Mursi ordered Mubarak-era attorney general Abdel Maguid Mahmoud to retire on Thursday and appointed him as Egypt's ambassador to Vatican. According to Mursi's decision, one of Mahmoud's aides will be the acting attorney general temporarily, the Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported. A number of political powers have demanded the sacking of Mahmoud and stated he is responsible
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Cairo - Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi sacked on Thursday prosecutor general Abdel Meguid Mahmud, state television said, a day after a court acquitted stalwarts of the old regime of organising an attack on protesters during last year's uprising. The state broadcaster said that Morsi issued a presidential "decree appointing prosecutor general Abdel Meguid Mahmud as Egypt's envoy to the Vatican".
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Cairo - The panel writing Egypt's new constitution has released an unfinished draft of the document, calling for a public debate on the charter in the face of mounting criticism. The parliament-selected panel is dominated by Islamists. It has come under criticism from liberals and secularists who accuse the panel of seeking to place limits in the new constitution on
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Cairo - In Egypt's restive Sinai, Bedouin leaders are pushing to take matters in their own hands and urging the government to arm their tribesmen by creating a local security force in the peninsula, where the state is struggling to impose its authority and uproot Islamic militants who have attacked Egyptian troops and neighbouring Israel. But the proposal, which the
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Grand Imam of Azhar, the most prestigious Islamic institution, and the acting Patriarch of the Coptic Church wish for a law to prevent the defamation of religions. Azhar Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb and Bishop Anba Pachomius, the acting Patriarch of the Coptic Church, discussed on Monday morning means of joining efforts to have an intentional law be issued to criminalize the
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Cairo - Egypt's chief forensic doctor has told a state-run newspaper that Hosni Mubarak has never suffered a stroke and that he is not in critical condition, contradicting earlier medical reports that the former president's health was deteriorating. There have been conflicting reports about the health of the 84-year old Mubarak, who was sentenced in June to life in prison
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Cairo - Muslims angered by cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad should follow his example of enduring insults without retaliating, Egypt's highest Islamic legal official said. Western embassies tightened security in Sanaa, fearing the cartoons published in a French magazine on Wednesday could lead to more unrest in the Yemeni capital where crowds attacked the US mission last week over an
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Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi Thursday slammed "attacks" on the Muslim prophet Mohammed in a film on Islam that sparked an outcry in Egypt, while also stressing that he condemned violence. "We Egyptians reject any kind of assault or insult against our prophet. I condemn and oppose all who... insult our prophet," Morsi, on an official visit to Brussels, said
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Cairo - Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi travels on Thursday to Brussels for talks with European Union leaders on his first trip to Europe since his election, the EU said in a statement. Morsi, who in June was elected Egypt's first Islamist leader following an uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak early last year, is due to meet EU foreign policy chief
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Egypt's armed forces have killed 32 "criminal elements" in an ongoing operation against Islamists in the lawless Sinai peninsula, a military spokesman said on Saturday. Colonel Ahmed Mohammed Ali said 38 people including "non-Egyptians" had been arrested during "Operation Sinai," which was launched on August 7, days after gunmen killed 16 soldiers at a border post. Some of the non-Egyptians
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An Egyptian court on Thursday acquitted four former senior police officials of involvement in the killings of demonstrators during the 2011 popular uprising that ousted president Hosni Mubarak. The grounds for the decision were not immediately available following the announcement of the acquittals. Faruq Lashin, former director of security in the Nile Delta province of Qalubiya north of Cairo, was
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Cairo - Egyptian police said they found a decapitated head in Sinai on Friday of a man kidnapped by Islamist militants, reportedly for his role in assassinating an extremist. A security official said another man, also accused in the assassination, was believed to have been kidnapped by the Bedouin militants. A Bedouin tribal source said the head found in the
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Cairo - Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi on Monday appointed a Coptic Christian intellectual and a woman university professor as presidential assistants, his spokesperson Yasser Ali announced. Samir Morcos, a liberal Coptic writer engaged in the dialogue between Islam and Christianity, has been named "assistant for democratic transition", Ali said. Pakinam al-Sharkawi, a political sciences professor at Cairo university, was
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