CAIRO, March 11, 2013 (AFP) Toppled president Hosni Mubarak, awaiting trial over his role in the deaths of protesters, believes Egyptians should rally around his Islamist successor and end violent protests, his lawyer told  AFP on Monday. President Mohamed Morsi, twice jailed by Mubarak before he himself was  overthrown on February 11, 2011, is the "elected president, people should  rally around him," the f ...

CAIRO, March 5, 2013 (AFP) Former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh said Tuesday his party will contest Egypt's next parliamentary elections, boycotted by the main opposition coalition. The Strong Egypt Party is to field candidates in the staggered legislative polls which start on April 22. Abul Fotouh told reporters in Cairo he believed parties had to "stand up to authority" in order to avoid ...

CAIRO, Feb 2, 2013 (AFP) Egypt's main opposition group, the National Salvation Front, said on Saturday it "completely sides with" calls to topple the ruling Islamists and called for President Mohamed Morsi to be tried for "crimes of killing and torture." "The Salvation Front completely sides with the people and its active forces' calls to topple the authoritarian regime and the Muslim Brotherhood's control, ...

Jan 2, 2013 In a perceived attempt to temper controversial remarks made earlier in the week, a senior Egyptian official who also serves as an adviser to President Mohammed Mursi said on Tuesday that Israel will cease to exist within a decade. During an interview with private Egyptian television channel ONTV, Erian, the deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, attempted to explain a previous st ...

 by Samer al-Atrush CAIRO, Dec 26, 2012 (AFP) Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has signed into law a new constitution voted in despite weeks of opposition protests, but on Wednesday he was left facing an economic crisis and international disquiet over his rule. The Islamist-dominated senate convened on Wednesday to swear in 90 new members appointed by Morsi. It was expected to draft a law for legislative el ...

CAIRO, Dec 26, 2012 (AFP) Egypt's electoral commission confirmed on Tuesday that a controversial, Islamist-backed constitution was passed by 64 percent of voters, rejecting opposition allegations of polling fraud. Those official results tallied with figures given by President Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood immediately after the last round of polling over the weekend in the two-stage referendum. Turnout, ...

By Marc Burleigh CAIRO, Dec 25, 2012 (AFP) Egypt's electoral commission confirmed on Tuesday that a controversial, Islamist-backed constitution was passed by 64 percent of voters, rejecting opposition allegations of polling fraud. Those official results tallied with figures given by President Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood immediately after the last round of polling at the weekend in the two-stage refer ...

BERLIN, Dec 23, 2012 (AFP) Germany urged Egypt Sunday to get to the bottom of allegations of fraud levelled by the opposition after the adoption of a new, Islamist-backed constitution in a referendum. "The reports from Egypt fill me with concern," Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in a statement. "The new constitution can only meet with acceptance if the process of its adoption is beyond reproach. All ...

 by Samer al-Atrush CAIRO, Dec 23, 2012 (AFP) A majority of Egyptian voters have backed a controversial charter in a two-round referendum that deeply polarised the country, ruling Islamists and official media said on Sunday. The Muslim Brotherhood, which President Mohamed Morsi hails from, and the official Al-Ahram newspaper reported that about 64 percent voted for the charter, according to preliminary resu ...

by Samer al-Atrush CAIRO, Dec 23, 2012 (AFP) Egypt has adopted a new, Islamist-backed constitution with nearly two-thirds support in a referendum preceded by weeks of sometimes bloody protests, official media said on Sunday. The secular-leaning opposition, which has alleged fraud, was mulling its next move in its campaign against the text, which it says limits the freedoms of religious minorities and women. ...

Morocco World News with Maghreb Intelligence Rabat, Dec 22, 2012 The head of Dubai's police, Dahi Khalfan, is furious against the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, which he calls kinds of names. He is said to be "service driven", echoing the arguments of highly placed personalities in some of the Gulf countries. Dahi Khalfan is very close to some very influential Saudi princes in the Wahhabi kingdom, and is cons ...

by Haitham El-Tabei ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Dec 21, 2012 (AFP) clashes between rival protesters erupted Friday in Egypt's second city Alexandria, on the eve of the final round of a referendum on a new constitution backed by the ruling Islamists. Black-clad riot police fired tear gas to try to quell the street battles between dozens of men, as lines of officers kept thousands of Islamist demonstrators and hundred ...