20120702 Press TV Egypt’s first freely-elected President Mohamed Morsi says his country is in ‘dire need of every hand that can build bright future’ and it will never return to its ‘ugly past.’
20120702 AFP Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi began his first full day in office on Sunday with his powers circumscribed by the military as he tries to pick a new cabinet to carry out his campaign pledges.
20120701 AFP Mohamed Morsi was sworn in as Egypt's first freely elected civilian president on Saturday and formally received a transfer of power and pledge of support from the military, which has ruled since last year.
20120701 AFP Egypt has seized a large weapons consignment, including Grad rockets, that had been smuggled from Libya and could have been headed to the Gaza Strip, press reports said on Saturday.
20120630 AFP Mohamed Morsi, champion of the long-banned Muslim Brotherhood, was poised to take the oath on Saturday as Egypt's first civilian president, launching a tricky cohabitation with the military.
20120630 AFP Islamist Mohamed Morsi praised Egypt's Muslims and Christians alike Friday and symbolically swore himself in as the country's first elected civilian president, playing up people power before a huge throng at Tahrir Square.
20120626 AFP President-elect Mohamed Morsi was on Tuesday drawing up a battle plan to confront Egypt's economic and security crises as he pushed ahead with selecting a government of technocrats, a senior aide said.
20120625 Press TV In his first address to follow his electoral victory, Egypt’s new President Mohamed Morsi has called on all Egyptians to unite and said the revolution, which ousted former dictator Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, will continue.
20120625 Press TV The United States has urged Mohamed Morsi, the newly-elected Egyptian president, to continue the former regime's pro-US-Israel policy in the region.
20120625 AFP Egypt's Mohamed Morsi, the first Islamist to be elected president of the Arab world's most populous nation, said Sunday he will be a leader "for all Egyptians" and called for national unity after a polarising race.
20120625 AFP Tens of thousands packed into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday in the largest celebration the protest hub has witnessed since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, to celebrate their new president-elect, Mohamed Morsi.
20120625 AFP Egyptian president-elect Mohamed Morsi is to become the first Islamist head of state in the Arab world's most populous nation after being declared winner in a divisive run-off with ex-premier Ahmed Shafiq.
20120624 Press TV The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB)’s presidential candidate Mohammed Morsi has warned about the ruling junta’s plot to manipulate the “popular will” by delaying the announcement of the recent run-off presidential election’s much-awaited results, Press TV reports.
20120624 Press TV The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) has accused the ruling military of hindering transition to democracy and following in the footsteps of the country’s ousted dictator Hosni Mubarak.
20120624 Press TV Egypt ruling military council has warned of using of force against protesters who have gathered in Cairo’s Liberation Square to protest the army’s grip on power.
20120623 AFP The Muslim Brotherhood expects its anticipated presidential election win to be respected, its candidate said Friday, as the group's supporters packed Cairo's Tahrir Square to pressure Egypt's ruling military.
20120620 AFP Egypt's Hosni Mubarak was "clinically dead" Tuesday after suffering a stroke, the state news agency reported, as a medical source said the ex-dictator was in a coma and had been put on a respirator.
20120620 AFP Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, who was reported clinically dead after suffering a stroke in prison on Tuesday, enjoyed near absolute power for three decades before being toppled by a popular uprising last year.
20120613 Press TV Egypt's April 6 Youth Movement has endorsed Muslim Brotherhood (MB) presidential candidate Mohamed Morsi in the country’s runoff election.