Vote counting has begun in Egypt’s landmark election, which pitted stability against the ideals of the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak’s rule.
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/ 9 February 2012
Egypt is still struggling with grievances a year after a spectacular uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak and turned the country’s politics upside down.
A riot that erupted after a soccer match in the Egyptian city of Port Said has killed at least 74 people and left hundreds more injured.
Arab foreign ministers are reviewing the record of a criticised observer mission to Syria, amid calls for the bloc to cede to the United Nations.
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/ 27 December 2011
An Egyptian court has ordered an end to forced virginity tests female detainees have been subjected to after the practice sparked a national outcry.
Egyptians have headed to the polls again to choose the first post-revolution Parliament, as liberals battle to compete with Islamist parties.
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.
Several hundred Egyptians occupied Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Sunday, following a night of deadly clashes.
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.
Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s wife has signed her assets over to the state, as her husband pledged to do likewise in a bid for amnesty.
Egypt’s ousted president Hosni Mubarak and his wife Suzanne were questioned on Thursday over alleged illegal acquisition of wealth.
Egypt’s military government on Monday urged a halt to widespread strikes inspired by a popular uprising that threatened to paralyse the country.
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/ 14 February 2011
The online activists who organised Egypt’s popular uprising said on Monday they had discussed reforms with the country’s new military rulers.
President Hosni Mubarak flew out of Cairo to his Red Sea retreat on Friday as more than a million Egyptians marched in cities around the country.
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/ 15 February 2007
Egyptian police arrested 72 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in nationwide dawn raids on Thursday as the government escalated its crackdown against the country’s main opposition movement. The government accuses the movement of seeking to impose an Islamic state and revive its secret wing.
Egyptian forces on Tuesday arrested 10 suspects over the triple bombings that ripped through the Red Sea tourist resort of Dahab and killed 18 people, including foreigners. State media said preliminary investigations pointed to links between the attacks in Dahab and two previous strikes in the Sinai peninsula over the past 18 months.