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War Between #al-Nour_party and #Muslim_Brotherhood Reaches #Sinai
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Egyptian Salafi demonstrators attend a unity rally in downtown Cairo. AFP/Khaled Desouki Egyptian Salafi demonstrators attend a unity rally in downtown Cairo. AFP/Khaled Desouki

The one-year-long hidden conflict between #Egypt’s Salafi political party, al-Nour, and the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood continues, even if its intensity is somewhat diminished. Most recently, the conflict appeared in northern Sinai in light of the upcoming parliamentary elections.

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#Egypt jailing of Jazeera journalists sparks global outrage
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Al Jazeera news channel’s Australian journalist Peter Greste (L) and his colleagues, Egyptian-Canadian Mohammed Fadel Fahmy (C) and Egyptian Baher Mohammed, listen to the verdict inside the defendants cage on June 23, 2014 at the police institute near Cairo’s Tora prison. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Desouki) #Al_Jazeera news channel’s Australian journalist Peter Greste (L) and his colleagues, Egyptian-Canadian Mohammed Fadel Fahmy (C) and Egyptian Baher Mohammed, listen to the verdict inside the defendants cage on June 23, 2014 at the police institute near Cairo’s Tora prison. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Desouki)

Egypt was under mounting pressure Tuesday to pardon three Al Jazeera journalists, including Australia’s award-winning Peter (...)

Low turnout in #Egypt's last-minute extension of presidential vote
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Egyptian women prepare to cast their votes at a polling station on the second day of Egypt’s presidential election in the capital Cairo on May 27, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Desouki)

Egyptians were initially slow to vote on a hastily added third day of a presidential election on Wednesday after lower-than-expected turnout threatened to damage the credibility of the man widely forecast to win, former army chief #Abdel_Fattah_al-Sisi. An early tour of Cairo polling stations suggested authorities would again struggle to get people to cast their ballots. read more

Sisi’s campaign distributes energy-saving lightbulbs to the poor
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An Egyptian man rides a bicycle past campaign posters of leftist presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi (L) and of Egyptian ex-army chief and leading presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R) in the town of Dekernss near the Nile Delta City of Mansura some 120 km north of Cairo on May 15, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Khaled Desouki) An Egyptian man rides a bicycle past campaign posters of leftist presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi (L) and of Egyptian ex-army chief and leading presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R) in the town of Dekernss near the Nile Delta City of Mansura some 120 km north of Cairo on May 15, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Khaled Desouki)

Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s campaign is pro- saving, and is (...)

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#US senator blocks $650 million aid package to #Egypt over rights abuses
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Egyptians react outside the courtroom in Egypt’s southern province of Minya after an Egyptian court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and other alleged Islamists to death on April 28, 2014. (Photo: AFP -Khaled Desouki) Egyptians react outside the courtroom in Egypt’s southern province of Minya after an Egyptian court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and other alleged Islamists to death on April 28, 2014. (Photo: AFP -Khaled Desouki)

A senior US senator has moved to block hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Egypt to protest the death sentences imposed on nearly 700 suspected Islamists. Denouncing Egypt’s “dictatorship run amok” and its “egregious violation of human rights,” (...)

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New code of ethics for #Egypt’s #Media: Is Sisi a red line?
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Egyptians walk past a huge poster of Egypt’s former Defence Minister and armed forces chief General Abdul Fatah Al-Sisi in downtown Cairo, on March 27, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Khaled Desouki) Egyptians walk past a huge poster of Egypt’s former Defence Minister and armed forces chief General Abdul Fatah Al-Sisi in downtown Cairo, on March 27, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Khaled Desouki)

Cairo: Why now? Public opinion professor at Cairo University, Safwat al-Alim, asked the question in a live interview with Liliane Dawood on Egyptian channel OnTV’s program, al-Soura al-Kamila. Alim was concerned with the sudden enthusiasm of the Egyptian Ministry of Information to announce a code of ethics for the media only hours after Abdul-Fattah (...)

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#Egypt police acquitted of uprising deaths as Mursi calls for “peaceful” revolt
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Egyptian riot policemen stand guard behind barbed wire outside the Police Academy where a hearing in the espionage trial of Egypt’s ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi is expected to open on February 16, 2014 in Cairo. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Desouki)

An Egyptian court acquitted six police on Saturday of killing protesters during the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak, as his now deposed Islamist successor #Mohammed_Mursi called for a “peaceful revolution” during his trial. The acquittal of the six officers on charges of killing 83 protesters outside police stations in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, came as a Cairo court resumed the trial of Mursi on charges of plotting violence during the revolt. read (...)

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Mursi stands trial over conspiracy charges
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An Egyptian riot policeman stands guard on the top of an armored vehicle outside the Police Academy where a hearing in the espionage trial of #Egypt's ousted Islamist president #Mohammed_Mursi is expected to open on February 16, 2014 in Cairo. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Desouki)

Deposed Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi appeared in court on Sunday on charges of conspiring with foreign groups to commit terrorist acts in Egypt, in a further escalation of the crackdown against his Muslim Brotherhood. Declaring it “the biggest case of conspiracy in the history of Egypt,” prosecutors have detailed a “terrorist plan” dating back to 2005 and implicating Palestinian group Hamas and the Iranian government, as well as its Lebanese ally Hezbollah. read (...)

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#Egypt to announce results of #constitution vote
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Polling station officials count ballots in the Egyptian capital Cairo on January 15, 2014 at the end of the second day of voting in a referendum on a new constitution. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Desouki) Polling station officials count ballots in the Egyptian capital Cairo on January 15, 2014 at the end of the second day of voting in a referendum on a new constitution. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Desouki)

Egyptian authorities are to announce Saturday the results of a constitutional referendum the interim government has hailed as a ringing endorsement of the army’s ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Mursi. Initial tallies suggest this week’s two-day referendum passed with an overwhelming majority, in what the military-installed (...)

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Egyptians overwhelmingly approve #constitution
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Egyptians wave their national flag and shout slogans in support of #Egypt's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as others queue up outside a polling station during the second day of voting on a new constitution on January 15, 2014 in Cairo’s southern Giza district. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Desouki) Egyptians wave their national flag and shout slogans in support of Egypt’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as others queue up outside a polling station during the second day of voting on a new constitution on January 15, 2014 in Cairo’s southern Giza district. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Desouki)

Egyptian voters overwhelmingly backed a new constitution that paves the way for the army chief to run for president, early results showed Thursday, (...)

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Where to, #Egypt ?
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An Egyptian street vendor sells the country’s national flag and masks of the Egypt’s Defence Minister General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as voters queue outside the polling station during the second day of voting on a new constitution on January 15, 2014 in the southern Cairo Giza district. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Desouki) An Egyptian street vendor sells the country’s national flag and masks of the Egypt’s Defence Minister General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as voters queue outside the polling station during the second day of voting on a new constitution on January 15, 2014 in the southern Cairo Giza district. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Desouki)

The Egyptians worship two deities, God and State: the creator of life and its organizer. Both (...)

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Egyptian constitutional referendum enters second day after deadly clashes
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An Egyptian street vendor sells the country’s national flag and masks of the #Egypt's Defense Minister General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as voters queue outside the polling station during the second day of voting on a new constitution on January 15, 2014 in the southern Cairo Giza district. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Desouki)

Egyptians resumed voting Wednesday in a constitutional referendum, with turnout expected to hold the key to a presidential bid by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi after clashes killed nine the previous day. In the capital Cairo, early turnout was lackluster on the second day of the vote, an AFP journalist said, with a trickle of Egyptians heading to polling stations in the morning. read (...)

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Mursi trial delayed due to weather
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Egyptian riot policemen deploy themselves to disperse supporters of Muslim Brotherhood ousted president Mohamed Morsi outside the police academy where the second hearing in his murder trial was to take place on January 8, 2014 in Cairo. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Desouki)

An Egyptian court on Wednesday adjourned the murder trial of deposed president #Mohammed_Mursi to February 1, citing “weather conditions” that prevented transport to court from his prison. It had been scheduled as the second hearing in Mursi’s trial, after an initial court appearance in November in which he denounced the tribunal and insisted he was still the country’s president. Mursi, who was toppled by the military in July, is accused of inciting the killings of opposition protesters in December (...)

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Three secular activists to stand trial in #Egypt for defying protest ban
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A file picture taken on June 3, 2013, shows Egyptian political activist Ahmed Douma reacting as he stands behind dock bars during his trial in Cairo, on charges of insulting president Mohammed Mursi. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Desouki)

Egypt ordered on Thursday three prominent political activists to stand trial on protest-related charges, judicial officials said, in another sign of growing intolerance of dissent. One of them, leading dissident Ahmed Maher, was charged with protesting without permission, marking the first time anyone had been ordered to stand trial under the provisions of a new law criticized for stifling the right to protest. read (...)

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Egyptian police fire water cannons at #Cairo protesters
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Egyptian policemen detain a protester during a demonstration in front of the Shura council in downtown Cairo on November 26, 2013 against the new law passed the previous day regulating demonstrations in the first unauthorized protest staged in the capital since the adoption of the law. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Desouki)

Egyptian police fired teargas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters in Cairo on Tuesday after they defied a new law that restricts demonstrations. Protesters gathered to commemorate the death of a liberal activist killed in clashes with police two years ago, challenging the new legislation passed on Sunday that bans protests without police approval. Hundreds assembled at the Press Syndicate and parliament, both in central Cairo. (...)

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#Egypt expels Turkish ambassador over critical remarks by PM #erdogan
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A file photo taken on June 1, 2010, shows Turkish ambassador to Egypt Huseyin Avni Botsali speaking during a meeting with General Secretary Amr Mussa (not seen) and other Arab Ambassadors for the Arab League at the headquarters in Cairo. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Desouki)

Egypt decided Saturday to expel Turkish Ambassador Huseyin Avni Botsali after remarks made by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Cairo deemed as being “provocative,” the foreign ministry said. Ministry spokesman Badr Abdelatty said Cairo took three decisions on Saturday concerning its diplomatic ties with Ankara. "First to expel the Turkish ambassador and downgrade our ties to the level of charge d’affaires, second to declare the Turkish ambassador persona non grata and third we will not (...)

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#Russia offers #Egypt $2 billion #arms deal
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmi (R) and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov give a press conference on November 14, 2013 in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Desouki)

Russia is offering to sell Egypt modern helicopters and air defense systems in a landmark deal reportedly worth $2 billion that would mark a revival of large-scale military cooperation, a Russian official said Friday. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defense Minister (...)

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#Egypt arrests leading Muslim Brotherhood figure
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A file picture taken on November 22, 2010 shows senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood Essam al-Erian attending a press conference in Cairo. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Desouki)

Egyptian authorities on Wednesday detained senior Muslim Brotherhood figure Essam al-Erian, one of the last few leaders of the Islamist movement to have escaped a security crackdown, the interior ministry said. Security forces arrested Erian, deputy leader of the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice (...)

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#Egypt's Copts mourn victims of #church_attack
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Egyptian women mourn four victims of a shooting at the Virgin Mary Coptic Christian church in Cairo on October 21, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Desouki)

Thousands turned out Monday for the funeral of four Copts gunned down outside a church, in the first attack on Christians in Cairo since the ouster of Egypt’s Islamist president. Priests carrying large wooden crosses made their way into the packed Church of the Virgin in Cairo’s working class neighborhood of (...)

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