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The Daily Telegraph
| 7 months ago
President Mohamed Morsi have clashed with opponents in Cairo's Tahrir Square in the worst violence over Egypt's new Islamist leader, a day after he crossed swords with the judiciary. Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement and a coalition of secular-...
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Russia Today
| 7 months ago
19 Supporters and opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi are battling for control of Cairo's Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the recent revolution. Over three dozen people are reported injured in the violence. Protesters hurled guns and...
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Jerusalem Post
| 7 months ago
The state news agency cited a doctor at a hospital near Tahrir saying 41 people had been injured. A government is in place, but Islamists and liberals are at loggerheads over the drafting of the new constitution, which must be agreed before a new...
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 7 months ago
For the first time since Egypt's new Islamist president took office, his supporters clashed with liberal and leftist protesters in Cairo, storming a stage erected by the opposition activists, smashing loudspeakers and tearing the structure down...
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The Courier-Mail
| 7 months ago
Cairo's Tahrir Square as supporters and opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi tried to wrest control of the iconic square in rival rallies. The health ministry said at least 12 people were wounded as protesters showered stones at each other...
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United Press International
| 7 months ago
Demonstrators angered over acquittals in an Egyptian court case protested Friday against what they said were President Mohamed Morsi's failed promises. Hundreds of people at Tahrir Square in Cairo participated in "Accountability Friday," a mass...
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NOW Lebanon
| 7 months ago
An influential group of Egyptian judges has backed the state prosecutor's refusal to resign after President Mohamed Morsi ordered his removal, state media reported Friday. The disagreement has revived a power struggle between the Islamist leader and...
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Fox News
| 7 months ago
A scuffle has broken out between groups of several hundred protesters in Cairo after chants against the new Islamist president angered some in the crowd. Activists called Friday's protest to demand more action from President Mohammed Morsi after his...
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Zee News
| 7 months ago
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has ousted Prosecutor General Abdel-Maguid Mahmoud, the state TV reported on Thursday. Ahmed Abdel Atty, chief of the presidential office, said Morsi's decision to sack the general prosecutor was taken in the interest...
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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
President Mohamed Morsi and Egypt's chief prosecutor clashed Thursday as the prosecutor refused the president's attempt to remove him. It was one of the first skirmishes in a long-awaited battle pitting the Islamists who have risen to power since the...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi moved to dismiss the country's general prosecutor on Thursday, ahead of a mass demonstration planned for Friday. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi moved to dismiss the country's general prosecutor on Thursday, ahead of...
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Jerusalem Post
| 8 months ago
Mohamed Morsi, while candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood for president of Egypt, made many promises. For example, he would launch Project Renewal, or Nahda, the brainchild of the Brothers and get the country back on track. But one promise captured...
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Taiwan News
| 8 months ago
Egypt's president dismissed the country's prosecutor general Thursday in a bid to calm widespread anger over the acquittals of 24 ex-regime loyalists who had been charged in the so-called "Camel Battle," one of the most dramatic attacks against...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
The supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, from which Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi emanated, called on Thursday for a jihad (holy war) to liberate Jerusalem from Israeli rule. "Jerusalem is Islamic ... and nobody is entitled to make concessions"...
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Al Jazeera English
| 8 months ago
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has removed the country's prosecutor general a day after all 24 defendants in the Cairo "Camel Battle" case were acquitted, state television has reported. Abdel Meguid Mahmoud, the country's top prosecutor, was named...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 8 months ago
Egypt's president has removed his prosecutor general after a court ordered acquittal of 24 loyalists of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, accused of organizing one of the most savage attacks on protesters during last year's popular uprising. On Feb. 2,...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
Egyptian media and public figures have reacted with surprise and some anger after Cairo's Criminal Court acquitted all 24 defendants in the Battle of the Camels case. Several opposition activists see the ruling as a deal between the governing Muslim...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday called for demonstrations demanding the retrial of those responsible for protester deaths during last year's popular uprising against Hosni Mubarak. A court on Wednesday acquitted 24 stalwarts of the ousted...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
The new Egyptian government is not doing enough to find people who disappeared during and after the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak , activists say. President Mohamed Morsi pardoned political prisoners this week and has set up a special...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
October 10, 2012 An Egyptian court on Wednesday acquitted 24 loyalists of ousted President Hosni Mubarak who had been accused of organizing the so-called Camel Battle, one of the most dramatic attacks on protesters of last year's uprising.
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Daily Nation
| 8 months ago
Two prominent Islamists are in the race to head Egypt's Freedom and Justice Party, to replace Mohamed Morsi who quit as chairman after being elected president, a party official said Wednesday. FJP secretary general and former speaker of the now-...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
Egypt unveiled a proposed draft of a new constitution Wednesday amid criticism from liberals and human rights groups that the document is tilted toward Islamic law and endangers the democratic ideals of the uprising that last year overthrew Hosni...
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BBC
| 8 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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Africa Headlines
| 8 months ago
A general amnesty decree by Egypt's President Morsi pardoning those detained or tried for taking part in protests since the January 2011 uprising is welcome news, Amnesty International said, but falls short of providing a fair trial to 1,100 other...
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Epoch Times
| 8 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
| 8 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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Associated Press
| 8 months ago
Several thousand Egyptians have marched nearly seven kilometers (four miles) through Cairo to demand retribution for 26 Coptic Christians killed during an anti-government demonstration last year. Muslim clerics, Christian priests, activists and...
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Africa Headlines
| 8 months ago
Former Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, said that not prosecuting those in charge of "Maspero" victims means that the revolution is not complete. "May the martyrs of Maspero rest in peace. A revolution that did...
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The Guardian
| 8 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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Fox News
| 8 months ago
An Egyptian rights group has accused the country's authorities of failing to bring to account those responsible for the deaths of 26 Coptic Christians killed during an anti-government demonstration one year ago. Copts and political groups are holding...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 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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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Egyptian protesters were expected to march Tuesday to mark one year since nearly 30 demonstrators were killed in a Coptic Christian protest that was violently crushed by security forces. The Maspero Youth Union, a group of Coptic activists formed in...
