CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - A BBC journalist detained in Cairo after troops cleared out a central Cairo protest has been released, the British broadcaster said on Tuesday.
Shaimaa Khalil was detained on Monday after the military, backed by riot police, cleared the three-week sit-in in Tahrir Square.
"We are relieved Shaimaa Khalil has been released and pleased she has been reunited with her colleagu [...]

CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - A plane due to take former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak from hospital to attend his murder trial in a Cairo suburb has arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egyptian television reported Wednesday.
Mubarak, whose trial begins later, has been under arrest in a hospital in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, where he is receiving treatment for a heart condition.
"The aircr [...]

CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Egyptian armed forces and riot police moved into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Monday to disperse several dozen protesters who refused to leave the area after most groups had suspended a sit-in.
Military police shot into the air to disperse the protesters, and proceeded to beat them with batons when they refused to leave the square, a security official said.
The protesters res [...]

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - (AFP) - Egypt turned back 450 travellers seeking to cross from Gaza at the Rafah border point after an attack on a Sinai police station, Hamas officials said on Sunday.
Gaza's Hamas-run interior ministry said that the 450 would-be travellers, some of them patients seeking medical treatment, were turned back at the border on Saturday.
Palestinians in G [...]

CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - The head of the Cairo Criminal Court has vowed a speedy trial for ousted president Hosni Mubarak, the official MENA news agency reported on Sunday.
Judge Ahmed Refaat said Mubarak's trial, which starts on Wednesday, would be aired live on Egyptian television to "reassure people of the (credibility of the) process".
The trial would be "held daily until its conclusion," he [...]

CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Egyptian protesters camped out in Cairo's Tahrir Square said on Sunday they will suspend their sit-in during Ramadan and will return to the square to press for reforms after the holy month is over.
Activists have been occupying Tahrir Square -- the epicentre of protests that toppled president Hosni Mubarak -- since July 8 to denounce the military rulers' handling of the tr [...]

CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, who faces trial next week accused ordering troops to fire on protesters, will appear in court at the Cairo Police Academy, the appeals court said Saturday.
The trial would open on Wednesday and be held "inside the Police Academy in Masr el-Gedida" in northern Cairo for security reasons, said the court's president, Abdel Aziz Omar.
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CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Unidentified gunmen on Saturday attacked a terminal on the gas pipeline to Israel for the fifth time since February, a security official said.
Gunmen on motorbikes and cars lobbed grenades and tried to storm the terminal at Al-Shulaq in north Sinai but were confronted by armed forces, leading to clashes.
Witnesses said the gunmen managed to flee.
"Unidentified gunmen att [...]

CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Tens of thousands packed Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday as Islamists flexed their political muscle in perhaps Egypt's largest protest since a popular revolt overthrew president Hosni Mubarak in February.
Islamists from across the country flocked into the central square to defend what they called "Egypt's Islamic identity" and to demand that parliamentary elections take pl [...]

CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Egypt's ex-president Hosni Mubarak, due to go on trial next week for murder, is refusing food in his hospital detention and has become extremely weak, state media reported on Wednesday.
Mubarak, 83, has been detained since April on charges of ordering the killings of anti-regime protesters and corruption. He is under arrest in a Red Sea resort hospital, where he receives t [...]