Some see Egypt’s newly elected Parliament as the triumphant fruit of upheaval but others see it as a weapon designed to subdue ongoing revolution.
Kim Jong-il impersonator fears his career might have run its course after the death of the North Korean leader.
While Egypt’s secular activists were outflanked in the parliamentary elections by Islamists, they are ready for heavy battle with military leadership.
Tens of thousands of Egyptians demanding an end to military rule converged on Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday in a week of demonstrations.
Egypt’s ruling generals accused by human rights group after morgue workers in Cairo contradict official claims.
Egyptians will vote in the first legislative elections since Hosni Mubarak was ousted but a deadly countdown has cast a shadow over Egypt’s polls.
Egypt’s army chief has promised a swifter handover to civilian rule but failed to convince thousands of demonstrators who are battling police.
Generals have opened crisis talks with civilian political leaders after widespread violence continued to plunge Egypt into turmoil.
Deadly clashes have broken out in Cairo’s Tahrir Square for the second day running, kicking off a violent countdown to elections.
Cairo is under curfew after 24 people, mostly Coptic Christians, died in clashes with security forces in the deadliest violence since Mubarak’s fall.
The military forces once celebrated by citizens as their rescuers threaten to become the oppressors.
Egypt’s ruling generals are seeking to enshrine a future role for themselves with considerable independence from civilian leaders.
Historians are racing to gather material for the national archives, but decisions about what to include have political significance.
A South African documentary producer found hope and uncertainty in the post-Mubarak era.
Bloody clashes between protesters and anti-riot police raged overnight in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, while new scuffles erupted on Wednesday.
Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is to face trial on August 3 on charges of ordering the killing of protesters and fraud.
Aid being compiled in Deauville aims to foster democracy and economic growth in countries such as Egypt and Tunisia.
Deposed president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons will face charges of graft and ordering the deaths of protesters during Egypt’s uprising in January.
A Zimbabwean will go on trial next month over a Facebook post that pro-democracy protests in Egypt were worth imitating, a report has said.
It started with a Christian woman who wanted a divorce to marry her Muslim lover, and found no other way to do so but to convert to Islam.
Suzanne Mubarak was taken to hospital after suffering from chest pains upon hearing the news that she was to be detained on corruption allegations.
Egyptian media on Monday accused "anti-revolutionaries" of trying to trigger sectarian conflict.
Egypt’s former leader Hosni Mubarak was complicit in the shooting of anti-regime protesters, a judge investigating violence during the uprising said.
Hosni Mubarak was placed in detention, prosecutors said on Wednesday shortly after state media reported his two sons had also been detained.
More than 1 000 protesters ignored an army order to leave Cairo’s main square on Sunday, extending their calls for a quick move to civilian rule.
Tourists are staying away from Egypt, two months after the start of a popular revolution that ousted long-time President Hosni Mubarak.
Egyptians will vote on proposed constitutional changes on Saturday in the first election in decades in which they will not know the result in advance.
Egypt’s ruling military council says it will scrap a law that has severely restricted the formation of political parties.
New evidence of spying and torture by an Egyptian security agency has piled pressure on military rulers to abolish a hated symbol of the Mubarak era.
The immediacy and democracy of social media have been crucial to the success of uprisings.
Egypt’s new prime minister told thousands of demonstrators in Tahrir Square on Friday he was committed to the goals of their revolution.
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/ 26 February 2011
Soldiers used force on Saturday to break up a protest demanding more political reform in Egypt, demonstrators said.