20110910 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Israel flew its ambassador home on Saturday after Egyptians stormed the building housing the Israeli mission in Cairo, plunging Egypt's ruling army deeper into its toughest diplomatic crisis since taking over from Hosni Mubarak.
20110910 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has tightened rules for issuing entry visas to tourists due to security concerns, according to security sources, in a move which tourism officials fear could further damaged their industry.
20110910 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian activists on Friday began demolishing a wall built around a building housing the Israeli embassy in Cairo to protect it against demonstrators, witnesses said.
20110907 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court trying Hosni Mubarak over the killing of protesters who ousted him will hear more testimonies on Wednesday after police witnesses suggested this week that neither he nor his interior minister gave orders to shoot.
20110907 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Real estate and hotels firm Orascom Development (ODH) said on Wednesday it had reached a settlement with Egypt's financial market watchdog that effectively scraps a jail sentence handed down to its chairman last month.
20110907 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's justice minister agreed to let five Kuwaiti lawyers join the defence team of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, who is on trial for incitement to kill demonstrators and corruption, state news agency MENA said.
20110906 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - A senior police officer said at the trial of Hosni Mubarak on Monday he was not aware of any order to fire on protesters who ousted him, as supporters and opponents of the deposed Egyptian president scuffled inside and outside the courtroom.
20110905 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Senior police officers will testify on Monday at the trial of Hosni Mubarak, the first witnesses in a case that has stoked simmering tensions between supporters and opponents of the ousted Egyptian president.
20110820 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt lodged a formal protest with Israel on Friday over the killings of three members of its security forces during an Israeli border raid against Palestinians.
20110817 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - An army crackdown on armed groups in Egypt's lawless north Sinai has netted four Islamist militants as they prepared to blow up a gas pipeline in the city of el-Arish, security sources said on Tuesday.
20110816 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - The judge presiding over the trial of Hosni Mubarak on Monday ordered TV cameras out of the courtroom until the case concludes, enraging opponents of the deposed president who vowed to challenge the decision with protests in downtown Cairo.
20110816 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Liberal political groups and a traditional Islamist party on Monday launched a coalition, "The Egyptian Bloc", to challenge powerful Islamists in a November parliamentary election.
20110815 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak returns to court on Monday to face charges of killing protesters, in a hearing that could decide if the head of the ruling military council will take the stand as a witness.
20110815 Reuters (Reuters) - Egypt's military prosecutors on Sunday ordered a prominent woman activist to be tried before a military court on charges of insulting the country's military rulers and incitement to violence, her lawyer said.
20110814 Reuters ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Security forces in Egypt's Sinai peninsula say they are launching an operation to control those behind a series of attacks in the northern town of el-Arish and stations that export gas to Israel.
20110814 Reuters BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany plans to waive debt of 240 million euros to Egypt if the funds are used to support democratic reforms, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on Friday after a meeting with his Egyptian counterpart.
20110811 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has begun procedures to end the country's three-decade old state of emergency, the government said on Thursday, a key demand of the protesters who toppled President Hosni Mubarak in February.
20110811 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian state investigators accused a former agriculture minister and a businessman with illegally confiscating land, state media reported on Thursday.
20110808 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's liberal Wafd party said on Sunday it may quit an electoral deal with the Muslim Brotherhood, highlighting growing tensions between liberals and Islamists over their vision for Muslim-majority Egypt.
20110807 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood held a public internal election on Saturday for the first time in its history in a display of openness before a parliamentary election in November.
