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Activists began to flock to Tahrir Square Sunday to participate in a mass rally dubbed “Revolutionary Legitimacy,” which will demand the ruling military council hand over power to civilians. Twenty-four political parties and movements...
Egypt's public prosecution will interrogate 13 officials from the Interior Ministry on Sunday over the fighting in and around Cairo's Tahrir Square over the past week, according to judicial sources. Clashes near the square between security...
A call to boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled to start 28 November was posted by activists on the Second Revolution of Anger Facebook page. Statement number 37 on the page said the elections will be useless and only create chaos....
The Egyptian government is mulling adding Hungary and Bulgaria to its official list of wheat providers, according to official sources. The sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm that a government panel formed by the industries of agriculture, health, social...
More than 100,000 expatriate Egyptians have voted in the first phase of the elections, which began on Wednesday, said Assistant Minister for Consular and Expatriate Egyptians' Affairs Ahmed Ragheb. He said that consulates will begin vote...
One person was killed when Central Security forces attacked a sit-in in front of the cabinet building in the early hours of Saturday. Ahmad Sorour died after being run over by a Central Security vehicle. Another protester was hit by a...
Political forces are divided over a million-strong march, dubbed “Last Chance Friday,” that parties and movements have called for on Friday to bring those involved in the Tahrir Square violence to trial and pressure the ruling military...
Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has officially apologized for the deaths of at least 35 protesters in clashes with security forces around Egypt. Demonstrators based in Cairo's Tahrir Square have entered their sixth...
The public prosecution on Thursday heard eyewitness testimonies about clashes that have taken place in and around Tahrir Square over the last week. The prosecution has acknowledged that casualties were caused by bird shot, tear gas, live rounds and...
The resignation of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) prior to parliamentary elections would cause chaos in Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood spokesperson Mahmoud Ghozlan told a Jordanian newspaper. Ghozlan, a member of the Brotherhood’s...