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The Daily Star
| 7 months ago
When they left their village north of Cairo on Aug. 27, Ahmed Waguih and Bahaa Zaqzouq told their families they were going on holiday. A few weeks later and hundreds of miles away, the cousins were killed mounting a cross-border raid into Israel.
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BBC
| 7 months ago
An Egyptian court has acquitted 24 former officials who were accused of sending men on camels and horses to break up a protest in Cairo in 2011. In the incident, later called the Battle of the Camels, supporters of then President Hosni Mubarak...
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Epoch Times
| 7 months ago
October 9, 2012 Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi participates in a meeting. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Egypt's leader, Mohamed Mursi, issued a pardon Monday evening to all people arrested during the protests that have been held since the...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Dressed in a black shirt bearing her brother's name, Mary Daniel retraces his last steps before he was killed a year ago in a brutal crackdown on a Coptic Christian rally that rocked the Egyptian minority. Mina, a 20-year-old who idolized Che Guevara,...
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Africa Headlines
| 7 months ago
President Mohamed Morsi arrived in Uganda on Tuesday 9/10/2012 at the head of a high level delegation Including Foreign Minister Mohmed Kamal Amr and minister of water resources and irrigation Mohamed Baha Eddin to attend the festivals which will be...
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Africa Headlines
| 7 months ago
President Mohamed Morsi issued a general pardon on Monday 8/10/2012 for all citizens detained or convicted over crimes committed with the aim of supporting the revolution", except murder. The pardon covers those arrested during the period January 25,...
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The Guardian
| 7 months ago
EPA Egyptian protesters detained and tried in incidents relating to the country's uprising have received a blanket pardon from the president, Mohamed Morsi , to commemorate his first 100 days in office. All felony convictions or attempted crimes "...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's decision to pardon protesters detained over the 2011 revolution is a positive step but the vague wording could see some left behind bars, rights activists said on Tuesday. "It's a very good decision but the...
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BBC
| 7 months ago
In the 100 days of his presidency Mohammed Mursi has managed to surprise Egyptians on many occasions. The very fact that he was elected at all was surprising to many. Mr Mursi was propelled to power by the Muslim Brotherhood when their original...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi waving at the crowd upon his arrival to deliver a speech to the nation in Cairo Stadium during the anniversary of Egypt's October 6, 1973 surprise attack, in Cairo Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi Monday pardoned all...
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Zawya Political
| 7 months ago
Monday, Oct 08, 2012 Egypt is aiming to cut its energy subsidies by up to a third over the coming year as part of an ambitious plan to reform the economy, said Hisham Kandil, the prime minister. The reduction by E£40bn, or $6.5bn, in the current...
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Russia Today
| 7 months ago
16 Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi.(AFP Photo / Eyptian Presidency) RT on Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi has signed a degree pardoning all those who had been arrested during last year's revolution. The declaration could lead to the release of...
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Al Jazeera English
| 7 months ago
55 Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi has pardoned all political prisoners detained since the start of protests that toppled Hosni Mubarak last year. The pardon covers citizens facing trial and those serving jail sentences except for those convicted of...
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Fox News
| 7 months ago
Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi has issued a decree pardoning all those arrested or convicted of crimes linked to actions "in support of the revolution" since the beginning of the popular uprising that forced his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak, from...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on Monday decided to pardon all those arrested between the start of the revolution that toppled president Hosni Mubarak in February, 2011 and June this year, state media said. A decree published on the presidency's...
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Fox News
| 7 months ago
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...
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BBC
| 7 months ago
Egypt forces killed in Sinai 'car accident' Nineteen members of the Egyptian security forces have been killed in an apparent car accident in the Sinai peninsula, state media report. The official Mena news agency said another six personnel had been...
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Africa Headlines
| 7 months ago
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi posted on Twitter on Saturday night that the rest of the revolution's political detainees will be released within days. In a speech on the anniversary of the 6 October War, Egypt's Islamist president described January...
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Los Angeles Times
| 7 months ago
Eman Mostafa, a village girl from southern Egypt , was shot and killed last month when she dared to spit in the face of the man who groped her. Ramadan Salem told authorities he mistakenly shot Mostafa, 16, after she cursed him. It is uncertain...
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The Globe & Mail
| 7 months ago
A protester holds an Egyptian flag while sitting on a tree during a demonstration in Cairo's Tahrir Square June 8, 2012. Hundreds of activists gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday to demonstrate against presidential candidate Ahmed Shafik...
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Parsippany LIfe
| 7 months ago
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has given himself high grades on his handling of some of the nation's pressing problems, spending much of a nearly two-hour speech late Saturday talking in painstaking detail about fuel, trash and bread, while...
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International Business Times
| 7 months ago
Egypt's President Mohamed Mursi waving at the crowd upon his arrival to deliver a speech to the nation in Cairo Stadium during the anniversary of Egypt's October 6, 1973 surprise attack, in Cairo The president addressed tens of thousands of Egyptians...
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Arizona Republic
| 7 months ago
Graffiti has been among the most powerful art forms and tools of Egypt's revolution and the turbulent months since, but it also has proven to be its most vulnerable and ephemeral. For nearly two years, the slogans, portraits and artwork that went up...
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Israel National News
| 7 months ago
Addressing tens of thousands who gathered in Cairo to mark the 39th anniversary of Egypt's crossing the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur War, he said, "What we have achieved is not enough. Professionally, what was accomplished is about 70 percent of...
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SF Gate
| 7 months ago
As President Mohammed Morsi is discovering, the new Egypt is a place where public opinion matters. Elected in June in the country's first democratic presidential elections, Morsi had promised to accomplish a lot during his first 100 days in office, a...
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Taiwan News
| 7 months ago
Egypt's new Islamist president on Saturday strongly defended his performance in his first 100 days in office, facing down criticism that little has been achieved even as he acknowledged that his administration has not fulfilled all of his promises...
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Jerusalem Post
| 7 months ago
He spoke on Saturday before tens of thousands of Egyptians gathered at the Cairo stadium to mark the anniversary of Egypt's successful crossing of the Suez Canal in its October 1973 war against Israel. "When election results were announced and I took...
