20110126
xinhua

CAIRO, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of Egyptian protesters hit the streets Tuesday in an unprecedented demonstration against President Hosni Mubarak and the government, clashing with police and bringing downtown Cairo to standstill.

20110125
reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) - Thousands of Egyptians demanded an end to President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule and clashed with police on Tuesday, in unprecedented protests inspired by the revolt that brought down Tunisia's president.

20110125
reuters

The United States on Tuesday urged all sides in Egypt to refrain from violence following clashes between security forces and demonstrators inspired by the revolt that toppled Tunisia's president this month.

20110125
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - The cost of insuring the debt of Egypt and Lebanon against default or restructuring rose sharply on Tuesday due to deepening political instability in both countries, data from Markit showed.

20110125
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday urged all sides in Egypt to refrain from violence following clashes between security forces and demonstrators inspired by the revolt that toppled Tunisia's president this month.

20110125
Xinhua
CAIRO, Jan.25 (Xinhua)-- Egyptian Interior Minister Habib el- Adly said Egypt has arrested 19 suspects related to terrorist groups to undertake attacks against religious institutes in the country.

20110125
Xinhua

20110124
xinhua

Egypt security sources said on Sunday that they have arrested an Egyptian man suspected of helping terrorists with the church attack in Alexandria, Egyptian media reported.

20110118
xinhua

CAIRO, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- An Egyptian lawyer set himself on fire in front of the government headquarters on Tuesday, security sources told Xinhua.

20110118
africanews

The Egyptian man charged with the shooting and killing of seven people outside a church on Coptic Christmas Eve has been sentenced to death, Egypt's Daily News said Monday. Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Hassan killed six Coptic Christians and one Muslim in Naga Hammadi on Coptic Christmas Eve of January 6.

20110116
reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian state security court on Sunday sentenced a Muslim man to death for killing six Coptic Christians and a Muslim police officer in a drive-by shooting on Coptic Christmas Eve in January 2010.

20110115
xinhua

CAIRO, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's Emergency State Security Court on Saturday adjourned the trial of three spies working for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad to another session scheduled for next Monday.

20110115
reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court convened on Saturday to start the trial of an Egyptian businessman charged with spying and recruiting agents in telecoms firms for Israel's intelligence agency Mossad, the state news agency said.

20110111
reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian Christian was shot dead on a train on Tuesday and at least three others were wounded, sources said, less than two weeks after a church was bombed in Egypt's deadliest sectarian attack in years.

20110110
reuters

BEIRUT (Reuters) - After 30 years of President Hosni Mubarak's ultra-cautious rule, some of Egypt's 79 million people feel change is overdue -- even his claim to be the guarantor of stability has looked shaky since a January 1 attack on Christians.

20110107
reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt tightened security around churches on Thursday, the eve of Coptic Christmas, after a New Year's Day bombing killed up to 23 and sparked angry protests by Christians demanding more protection from Muslim militants.

20110104
reuters

The H1N1 infection toll in Egypt has risen to 2172 following a resurgent of the flu virus which infected some 838 people in the last week of 2010, Egypt's MENA news agency said on Monday.

20110104
reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt is screening people who arrived recently from countries where al-Qaeda is known to recruit after early findings suggested the militant network was behind a New Year's church bombing, security sources said.

20110103
africanews

An Egyptian policeman was gunned down by human traffickers on the Egyptian-Israeli borders. Rami Ahmed Abdel-Latif was shot in the head when he tried to prevent a group of human traffickers from smuggling a number of Africans into Israel at the southern Rafah land port, an Egyptian security said.

20110102
africanews

Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is pushing for peace between Muslims and Christians in the northern African country after a bomb blast on New Year's Eve outside the al-Qiddissin church in the Alexandria city killed at least 21 people. He said the act bore the hallmark of "foreign hands" seeking to destabilise Egypt.