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Violence erupts outside mosque in Cairo. (AFP)

Egypt: Police drag Morsi supporters out of mosque

Morsi supporters holed up in a Cairo mosque have exchanged heavy gunfire with police on Saturday afternoon.

Egypt police shoot Sudanese migrant at Israel border

Egyptian police shot and wounded a Sudanese man to prevent him from crossing the border illegally to Israel from the Sinai peninsula on Monday, a security official said. The…

Egyptian cops hold leading Islamists in crackdown

Egyptian police detained three leading members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday as part of a crackdown that the Islamists say is meant to disrupt their plans for…

Egypt delays Brotherhood verdict, arrests 17

An Egyptian military court has delayed by a month a verdict on 40 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood who face charges of belonging to a banned group, Brotherhood…

Egypt police detain dozens of Islamists before vote

Egyptian police detained dozens of members of the Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday, expanding a crackdown on the country’s strongest opposition group ahead of local elections in…

Egyptian police frustrate Palestinian shoppers

Dozens of policemen in riot gear at Egyptian checkpoints set up in the pouring rain just a few kilometres from the border with Gaza on Sunday failed to halt the flow of…

Egypt begins closing Gaza border, tensions flare

Egypt began closing its breached border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday, using barbed wire and water cannons to keep Palestinians from crossing into Egypt in…

Palestinians blow up border wall, flood into Egypt

Palestinian militants blew up part of the wall between Gaza and Egypt on Wednesday, and tens of thousands of Palestinians poured into Egypt to stock up on food and fuel in short…

Palestinians break out of Gaza

Dozens of Palestinians broke through the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt on Tuesday during clashes between Palestinian protesters and Egyptian security…

Egypt arrests 25 members of Islamist opposition

Egyptian police arrested 25 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood organisation late on Tuesday in the oasis city of Fayoum on charges of holding meetings to prepare for…

Egyptian cops charged with sodomising suspect

Egyptian prosecutors have charged two detectives with sodomising a suspect in a drugs case in the Nile Delta. A report on the case quotes the suspect, 27-year-old Ahmed Sayed…