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  Egypt's Morsi faces trial for prison break, murder

  World | December 21, 2013 19:25 IST

  Cairo: Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and 132 others, including members of Hamas and Hezbollah, will face trial for a prison break and murder of police officers during the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak,

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  Suicide car bomber kills 11 soldiers in Egypt

  World | November 21, 2013 7:08 IST

  Cairo: A suicide car bomb hit a bus convoy of off-duty Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday, killing 11 and wounding 37, in the latest of a stepped-up wave of attacks blamed on

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  27 killed in train accident in Egypt

  World | November 18, 2013 20:53 IST

  Cairo: At least 27 people were killed and 32 injured when a freight train crashed into a mini-bus and a truck near Egypt's capital Cairo in the early hours of Monday, the head of the

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  Football matches a security test for troubled Egypt

  Football | November 09, 2013 11:28 IST

  Cairo: Two international football matches, including a World Cup playoff, are set to take place in Egypt's turbulent capital, putting security there to the test after violent street protests and bloody security crackdowns followed a

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  Kerry in Egypt on first visit since Morsi ouster

  World | November 03, 2013 16:44 IST

  Cairo: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was in Cairo on Sunday pressing for reforms during the highest-level American visit to Egypt since the ouster of the country's first democratically elected president.   The Egyptian military's

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  Judges in Egypt withdraw from Muslim Brotherhood chief Badei's trial

  World | October 29, 2013 21:33 IST

  Cairo: Judges presiding in a trial of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood leaders have stepped down from the proceedings without giving any reason for their move, a court official said.The official said the decision was announced by

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  Ten hidden facts of Egypt's mysterious queen-Cleopatra

  World | October 02, 2014 8:55 IST

  New Delhi: No other queen of the ancient world carries with her the intrigue of Egypt's Queen Cleopatra. Her life, her romantic encounters have given her a magical appeal that has captivated the world ever since.Over

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  Deadly Egyptian soccer riots of 2012

  Football | January 28, 2014 7:56 IST

  New Delhi: Soccer is the world's most popular Olympic sport, but  in Port Said, Egypt, on 1st Feb, 2012,  people who called themselves lovers of soccer  turned their favourite game into an ugly one. The

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  Egypt: 51 killed in new bout of street violence

  World | October 07, 2013 7:44 IST

  Cairo : Security forces and Islamist protesters clashed around the country Sunday, leaving 51 killed, as a national holiday celebrating the military turned to mayhem. Crowds from Egypt's two rival camps—supporters of the ousted Islamist

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  Egypt to hold World Cup playoff in Cairo

  Football | September 26, 2013 14:04 IST

  Egypt's national football team will play in Cairo for the first time in two years, and for a spot in the World Cup.   The Egyptian football association decided Wednesday to hold the second leg of

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  Egypt bans Muslim Brotherhood group

  World | September 23, 2013 21:30 IST

  Cairo: An Egyptian court on Monday ordered the Muslim Brotherhood to be banned and its assets confiscated in a dramatic escalation of a crackdown by the military-backed government against supporters of the ousted Islamist president

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  Know about the secrets of sunken city of Egypt, Heracleion

  World | June 22, 2014 7:22 IST

  New Delhi: You must have heard about the Lost city of Atlantis which got submerged into the sea mysteriously and discovered by the archeologists in the recent past. But there is another interesting yet mysterious

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  Egypt reopens Gaza border

  World | September 19, 2013 7:59 IST

  Gaza: Egypt reopened its Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip Wednesday after seven days of closure, allowing a limited number of people to leave and return to the Palestinian coastal enclave through its main border

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  Egypt extends emergency laws

  World | September 12, 2013 20:31 IST

  Cairo: Egypt's interim president on Thursday extended a nationwide state of emergency by two months, citing security conditions.The nearly month-old state of emergency, which gives security forces greater powers of arrest, had been due to

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  Egypt declares new supreme election commission

  World | September 12, 2013 9:12 IST

  Cairo: Egypt's interim President Adli Mansour issued a decree to form the Supreme Elections Commission (SEC), tasked with supervising parliamentary and presidential elections in the country.The SEC, presided by the head of Cairo Appeal Court,

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  Egypt's Ga Sabry wins Maharashtra PSA Squash

  Other Sports | September 08, 2013 14:39 IST

  Mumbai: Egypt's Mazen Hesham Ga Sabry edged out fellow countryman Zahed Mohamed in a 61-minute final to win the Maharashtra State PSA Open, the new PSA World Tour Challenger 15 squash event at the Bombay

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  30 killed in Egypt military raid

  World | September 08, 2013 11:56 IST

  Cairo: At least 30 militants are believed to have been killed in a raid by the Egyptian army launched on militant hideouts, an official said.Saturday's raids in the North Sinai governorate bordering Israel targeted 12

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  Egypt considers buffer zone along Gaza border

  World | September 06, 2013 9:39 IST

  Cairo:  Egypt is considering establishing a one-km-deep buffer zone along the eastern border with Gaza in a move to heighten security, media reported Thursday.The buffer zone will be free of homes and farms so that

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  Egypt court bans Al-Jazeera TV affiliate

  World | September 03, 2013 16:07 IST

  Cairo: An Egyptian court on Tuesday ordered Al-Jazeera's local affiliate to stop broadcasting along with three other stations known for their coverage of Islamist protests, saying that they had operated illegally, the state news agency

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  Egyptian helicopters strike militants in Sinai

  World | September 03, 2013 15:54 IST

  El-Arish: Egyptian helicopter gunships fired rockets early Tuesday at militants in the northern Sinai Peninsula, causing "dozens" of casualties in an ongoing effort by authorities to assert control over the largely lawless region, security officials