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Egypt refers ousted Morsi to third trial

YoopyaDecember 21, 2013December 10, 2023

by YoopyaDecember 21, 2013December 10, 202307

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s prosecutors have referred ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to a third trial, on charges of organizing prison breaks during the 2011...

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Egypt court cuts sentences against Islamist women

YoopyaDecember 7, 2013December 31, 2023

by YoopyaDecember 7, 2013December 31, 202302

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian appeals court reduced Saturday harsh prison sentences given to 14 young Islamist women for protesting in support of the country’s...

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Egypt’s top satirical poet dies at 84

YoopyaDecember 4, 2013December 31, 2023

by YoopyaDecember 4, 2013December 31, 202307

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s best known satirical poet, Ahmed Fouad Negm, has died. He was 84. Negm died in the early hours of Tuesday, said...

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Egypt’s constitutional panel holds final meeting

YoopyaDecember 2, 2013February 14, 2024

by YoopyaDecember 2, 2013February 14, 202402

CAIRO (AP) — A panel that amended a constitution drafted under now-ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi held a final meeting on Monday ahead of handing...

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Egypt Islamists rally to defy protest law

YoopyaNovember 30, 2013December 31, 2023

by YoopyaNovember 30, 2013December 31, 202303

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security forces firing tear gas and water cannons on Friday broke up anti-government demonstrations by Islamists defying a draconian new law...

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Egyptian troops die in Sinai bomb attack

YoopyaNovember 20, 2013January 31, 2024

by YoopyaNovember 20, 2013January 31, 202408

Eleven Egyptian military personnel have been killed and dozens more wounded in a car bomb attack near the North Sinai city of el-Arish. Al-Masri al-Youm...

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Memorial at Egypt’s Tahrir Square sparks protest

YoopyaNovember 18, 2013February 14, 2024

by YoopyaNovember 18, 2013February 14, 202402

CAIRO (AP) — Where tents once sprouted and protesters chanted, municipal workers are now laying grass and flowers in the roundabout of Egypt’s famous Tahrir...

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In court, defiant Mursi says he still Egypt’s president

YoopyaNovember 4, 2013March 10, 2024

by YoopyaNovember 4, 2013March 10, 202403

(Reuters) – Ousted Egyptian leader Mohamed Mursi struck a defiant tone on the first day of his trial on Monday, chanting ‘Down with military rule’,...

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Mursi faces trial in Egypt in test of democracy

YoopyaNovember 4, 2013February 14, 2024

by YoopyaNovember 4, 2013February 14, 202405

(Reuters) – Ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi arrived at a Cairo police academy on Monday to face trial in what opponents of the army-backed government...

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Egypt: Police storm university after student siege

YoopyaOctober 30, 2013March 4, 2024

by YoopyaOctober 30, 2013March 4, 202406

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security forces have stormed the main building of an Islamic university in Cairo after students who support the country’s ousted president...