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Ousted Egyptian president collapses, dies in court
Mohammed Morsi, the ousted president of Egypt, collapsed in court and died Monday, according to state TV. Morsi, 67, was being tried on espionage and other charges when he blacked...
Two of Egypt's former presidents appear in same courtroom
CAIRO — Two former Egyptian presidents appeared Wednesday in the same Cairo courtroom, with Hosni Mubarak testifying in a retrial of Mohammed Morsi on charges related to prison breaks at...
Two Al Jazeera employees sentenced to death in Egypt
CAIRO -- An Egyptian court has sentenced six people, including two Al-Jazeera employees, to death for allegedly passing documents related to national security to Qatar and the Doha-based TV network...
Ousted Egyptian president sentenced to death
CAIRO — An Egyptian court sentenced ousted President Mohammed Morsi and over 100 others to death Saturday over a mass prison break during the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak...
Egyptian court sentences ousted Morsi to 20 years in prison
CAIRO — An Egyptian criminal court on Tuesday sentenced ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to 20 years in prison on charges linked to the killing of protesters in 2012, the...
Egypt blames Islamists for four beheaded corpses
CAIRO — Four beheaded corpses were found by residents of a town in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday, security sources said, blaming Islamist militants waging an insurgency against Cairo. The security...
If they held an election and no one came
He’d hoped it would be a plebiscite for his military coup that toppled Egypt’s first freely elected president last year. Instead, this week’s presidential election seems to have delivered the...
3 deadly bombs target police at Cairo University
CAIRO — Three bombs exploded Wednesday outside Cairo University's main campus, hitting riot police deployed against near daily protests by Islamist students, killing a police general and wounding seven others,...
529 supporters of ex-President Morsi sentenced to death in Egypt
CAIRO — A court in Egypt on Monday sentenced to death 529 supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi on charges of murdering a policeman and attacking police, convicting them...
Egypt’s ex-president Morsi in rage-filled rant during trial
CAIRO — Toppled former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi stood alone in a soundproof, glass-encased metal cage at the start of a new trial Tuesday, wearing a white prison uniform, pacing...
Egypt holds key vote on country's new constitution
CAIRO -- Egyptians formed long lines Tuesday outside polling stations to vote on a new constitution that represents a key milestone in a military-backed roadmap put in place after the...
Egypt military brands Muslim Brotherhood terrorists
In Egypt, an Arab Spring began on Cairo’s Tahrir Square and saw the election and then the deposing of a Muslim Brotherhood government has just come full circle. This week,...
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood declared 'terrorist group'
CAIRO -- Egypt's military-backed interim government declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization Wednesday, intensifying its campaign of arrests and prosecutions targeting its members and tightening the noose on the...
Egypt's ousted Morsi facing terrorism charges
CAIRO — Egypt state media is reporting that the country's top prosecutor has referred ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to trial for conspiring with foreign groups with the intention of...
The Egyptian military’s new power grab
So Egypt’s Gen. Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi managed to come in first in Time magazine’s online “person of the year” poll, his minions having evidently done a better job of spamming votes...
Egypt expels Turkish ambassador, scales back ties
CAIRO — Egypt downgraded diplomatic relations Saturday with Turkey and expelled its ambassador from Cairo, a sharp escalation in tensions between the two countries that mounted after a military coup...
Egyptian court upholds Muslim Brotherhood ban
CAIRO -- A court in Egypt has upheld an earlier ruling that banned the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered its assets confiscated. The lawyers for the Islamist group had asked the...
Egypt: Morsi's trial adjourned until Jan. 8
CAIRO — Egypt's deposed president has defiantly told the court that he is the country's "legitimate" leader and it has no jurisdiction to try him. In Monday's trial, Mohammed Morsi...
Egypt changes venue for trial of ousted president Morsi
CAIRO — Egyptian authorities on Sunday moved the trial of the ousted Islamist president to a new location at another end of the capital, a move apparently aimed at thwarting...
Students riot after Brotherhood leader arrested
CAIRO -- Egyptian security forces have stormed the main building of an Islamic university in Cairo after students who support the country's ousted president besieged and attacked the offices of...