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The head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Shenouda III, has urged Copts to vote for parliamentary candidates who can best serve the country's interests, disregarding their affiliations, state-run Al-Ahram newspaper website said....
Voting begins today in the first stage of Egypt's first post-Hosni Mubarak parliamentary elections. This stage of voting, which will last two days, includes Cairo, Alexandria, Assiut, Port Said, Luxor, Kafr al-Sheikh, Fayoum, Damietta and Red...
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Tahrir Square Sunday to participate in the ‘Revolutionary Legitimacy’ million-strong demonstration.
Students of Cairo and Ain Shams universities, as well as students, joined the demonstration.
The...
Political parties and revolutionary coalitions continue to oppose the recent appointment of Kamal al-Ganzoury as prime minister. They favor letting a national salvation government rule during the transition period instead of the Supreme Council of...
In a statement on Sunday, the Egyptian Interior Ministry announced that its role in the upcoming parliamentary elections would be limited to securing the polling stations from the outside, without interfering in the voting process, unless summoned...
Egyptian authorities said Sunday that they will not change the locations of polling stations near Cairo's Tahrir Square ahead of the parliamentary elections set to begin on Monday.
Tahrir Square has been roiling with mass protests since Saturday...
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...
A number of Egyptian political groups have rejected a proposal by the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to form an official advisory board made up of presidential hopefuls as a way of ending Egypt's current political impasse,...
Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi officially appointed Kamal al-Ganzouri to form a national salvation government on Friday with full powers to carry out his job.
Ganzouri, 78, said he accepted the position after Tantawi emphasized he does not...
The Muslim Brotherhood has explained its absence from the “Last Chance Friday” mass protest in Tahrir Square, saying it wants to avoid any potential clashes that might result in many deaths.
The Brotherhood said renewed clashes in and...
